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Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by mbesto on Thursday August 12, 2021 @12:52PM (#28158633)
I forget when this has been discussed before but a lot of major digital companies (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, etc.) end up creating their own fonts for legitimate business reasons that are totally unrelated to design/usability. I can't seem to find the reference, but I think it had to do with licensing/commercial reasons.
Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by Analemma_ on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:04PM (#28158798)
A lot of font foundries switched from one-time lump-sum payments to pay-per-use, thinking they’d make a whole bunch of money from the scale of big digital companies, and not realizing this would just cause these companies to design their own fonts instead. Really short-sighted IMO.
Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by makeitdouble on Thursday August 12, 2021 @09:29PM (#28164227)
From your description it looks to me like the foundry industry moved from one-time lump-sum for everyone, to one-time lump-sum (font designing cost) for some rich companies, and pay-per-use for everyone else.

Was it effectively a bad move ?

Re:Twitter's new font, Chirp, is apparently giving some user... by tdeck on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:19PM (#28158944)
Adobe is kind of an outlier there since some of their earliest commercial products were fonts.