How it works: participating design schools and colleges can set their font budgets and specify a number of students.
MATRIX FONT HISTORY FONTSTAND FOR FREE
Regular users of Fontstand’s Mac and Windows desktop applications can try fonts for free and rent them for just 10% of their retail price per month, and now students at participating design schools and colleges will be able to rent them for just half that, as Fontstand will forego its share of the license fee (effectively donating it to the school) while ensuring that the foundries still receive their royalties in full. The same monthly rental system now used by thousands of small- and medium-sized design studios is now being made available for educational institutions at a special price. The average foundry, on the other hand, is unlikely to agree to let schools install its fonts on thousands of student computers when there’s no practical way to guarantee that the files won’t be kept and/or redistributed, even long after the students graduate.Įnter Fontstand, the company that pioneered technical solutions to make font licensing affordable for users and profitable for independent foundries.
Today, more and more students are doing more and more of their work on their own laptops, but few can afford to maintain a broad library of high-quality, legally licensed typefaces, and fewer still can justify the purchase of a font that will be used for a single project and may never be needed again. In the days when the “notebooks” that most students carried were three-ring binders, schools had computer labs where students could work with fonts licensed for use on school equipment, an arrangement that was hardly cheap, but at least centralized and manageable. Many schools, however, find it difficult to give their students access to professional-quality type. Today’s design students are tomorrow’s design professionals, and they need to train with professional design tools, including high-quality digital typefaces.
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