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[-] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 76 points 4 days ago

Monotype may as well be the mafia. My wife's work had to deal with those assholes, too, after they bought the rights to some font. They're just shaking companies down for cash.

[-] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

after they bought the rights to some font.

Now That's What I Call Capitalism

I would be burning fucking buildings down. I'd be at the top of the FBI's most wanted list.

[-] ApollosArrow@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

This would be an interesting comic strip. A company that has purchased all the fonts in existence, and then the artist doing the comic you are reading gets sued by the company he’s making a comic about, because he doesn’t have the rights to the font.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago

Put up or shut up

[-] statler_waldorf@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

There was a fun article yesterday about a guy dealing with the Monotype shakedown.

I can't figure out how to strip this weird Voyager url handler to the Lemmy post, so here's the actual post

https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2025/11/14/monotype-font-licencing-shake-down

this post was submitted on 01 Dec 2025
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