I approached Fonts.com for information about having fonts hosted and advertised on their site. I wonder if HighLogic should canvas them to include FontCreator in their accepted formats? This is their reply:
Hello Dr. Lesley,
There are a couple of ways that we can carry your fonts. We can distribute them on our web sites under your company name. Alternatively, you could submit the designs for inclusion in the Monotype, Linotype or ITC typeface libraries.
If you wish to submit a design for inclusion in one of our typeface libraries, I would present it at our next Typeface Review Board meeting. These are held about three times a year. If the Board decides to add your design to one of the libraries, we would license it from you on an exclusive basis.
If you chose to simply distribute through Fonts.com and Linotype.com (we own both sites), we would announce your font’s availability on our home pages and in our e-newsletters. We will also post any marketing images or content you provide about the fonts. We provide a way to reach millions of type buyers but it is essentially up to you to create your own marketing and promotional content.
In either case, every time we sell one of your fonts we pay you a royalty. The royalty differs between the two models. We pay a 50% royalty for non-exclusive distribution and about half that (because of the extensive marketing we put toward the design) for exclusive typefaces. I’ve taken the liberty of attaching a “font submission” kit for non-exclusive distribution to this. It will provide more information about distributing fonts through our web sites.
In answer to your question regarding fonts developed using FontCreator, If you are distributing fonts through one of our Websites, as long as the finished product is available as one or more of the font formats: TrueType, PostScript, or OpenType, how the fonts are made are of little importance. If you are submitting a design to us for possible inclusion in one of our typeface libraries, we can make a judgment about a typeface design from a PDF. If the design is accepted, however, final fonts must be provided to us must as either Fontographer or FontLab files.
If you would like to discuss any of the above, or have any additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
All the best,
Allan
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