Looking for Glyphline’s own tiers and prices? See the licensing page.
Buying a font can be confusing — you're not really buying the font, you're buying permission to use it. Here's what that means in plain English.
When you "buy" a typeface, you're buying a license: the right to use the font files in specific ways. The foundry keeps ownership. That's why a font has different prices depending on how you'll use it — a personal sketch and a global ad campaign are very different uses.
A desktop license lets you install the font on your computer(s) and use it in design tools — Illustrator, Figma, Word, Canva — to make static artwork: logos, posters, packaging, PDFs. It's the most common license and usually priced per number of users or computers.
A web license lets you embed the font on a website using @font-face so it renders as live text. Web licenses are often priced by monthly page views, because a small blog and a high-traffic store place very different demands on the typeface. Tiers typically look like up to 50K, 250K, 1M, or unlimited views per month.
If you embed a font inside software — a mobile app, a game, an e-book, or a product UI — you usually need an app/embedding license, separate from desktop and web, because the font ships as part of a product.
At Glyphline you choose desktop, web, and/or app on a single screen, pick your view tier for web, and the price updates live. Web licenses are perpetual — pay once for your tier. You can license a single style, a full family, or the whole collection.
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