FONTSTAND RENTING FONT FOR FREE
FONTSTAND RENTING FONT INSTALL
FONTSTAND RENTING FONT FREE

FONTSTAND RENTING FONT FREE

‘I created an assignment that was made to fit the platform’s one-hour free test option.

‘Fontstand is a very useful tool for graphic design students to get immediate access to many high-quality fonts,’ says Bergerhausen.

Johannes Bergerhausen, professor at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz, used the free test feature as an inspirational constraint. And at the time of writing, 51 quality-conscious, independent foundries have joined Fontstand, offering 1374 families, and the number is growing.įrom the outset, art and design schools found smart ways to use the Fontstand system in their typography courses. Fontstand’s carefully curated selection of individual foundries and type designers also represents a smart alternative to the endless hypermarket (of increasingly mediocre typefaces) that major platforms have become, most of which are now owned by Monotype.īiľak says: ‘When we started we didn’t have a target … we simply thought it was the right time.’ They now have more than 33,000 registered users. If a project or publication is granted a longer life or gradually grows, the monthly lease can be converted into a permanent licence – after twelve months the font can be kept and used forever. A typeface, or a complete family of faces, can be rented for a month at ten per cent of purchase price for many one-off projects, one or two months is sufficient. Fontstand’s most innovative feature is the leasing system. Crucially, it is possible to ‘borrow’ a font for an hour to do a realistic test, even printing it out, instead of relying on the frustrating guess that is a pure screen test – and the loan is free. Its unique selling proposition is its method of presenting, leasing and selling digital type. Could this be a gateway to a brighter typographic future for students?įontstand was launched in the spring of 2015 by Peter Biľak, owner of the Typotheque foundry in the Netherlands, with friends from his native Slovakia. Fontstand, a Dutch-Slovakian distribution network, is now coming to the rescue with an educational font licensing programme. Online sources of information are often purely commercial or downright unreliable, and while there are dozens, maybe hundreds of micro-foundries with well made websites, young graphic designers and students have trouble finding their way through the forest of fonts. If there are any typefaces you’d love to see on Fontstand, send us an email or tweet.Budding graphic designers have a hard time exploring the type market today. And the links below will take you directly to the fonts we currently offer. You can think of renting as an extensive test or as a way to use fonts for a limited time – you can always rent the fonts again when you revisit a project – and once you rent for twelve total months, the fonts are yours to download. This new approach to licensing is a great way to get your hands on high-quality typefaces and ensure that you’re using the right font for the job. We get that – we’ve been there – and we think Fontstand can help. Maybe you need to test the fonts before committing, maybe you want to make sure the client approves, or maybe you’re a design student on a tight budget. At launch, Fontstand offers hundreds of typefaces from over twenty independent foundries.Ĭlicking a ‘buy’ button isn’t always easy.

FONTSTAND RENTING FONT INSTALL

Whether you rent or trial, the chosen fonts work right away in your design apps without you having to install them.

FONTSTAND RENTING FONT FOR FREE

Fontstand, a desktop Mac application, lets you try fonts for free for one hour as well as rent them on a monthly basis at 10% of the normal license cost. There’s a new way to test our typefaces, and not just that – you can rent them too.

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