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Sam Berlow of @thetypefounders.bsky.social interviewed by type.today journal: type.today/en/journal/t.... Good questions and pretty transparent answers. This is the most I’ve read about the company’s business structure. #TypeIndustry #TheTypeFounders #TypeDesign #Fonts

“When we started this, the designers were thinking: how am I going to stop running this business and still get paid for my intellectual property? And the only real option was to sell to Monotype. So our idea was to come up with a different kind of plan, where you could sell your foundry —

but continue to work. Your foundry would still have a place on the internet, its history would be preserved, and it could continue to grow even after the sale. We wanted to reassure designers that their legacy would continue.” IR: Will you theoretically sell to Monotype? SB: I would protest that.

'I would protest that' is not reassuring.

they’ve also been VERY accommodating and understanding of my work as a caregiver, and the effort it takes to restructure a career when that’s a responsibility my latest collection has taken 3 years to develop—a bananas amount of time for me—and they’ve been so kind about it