[inferiorhuman]

The question becomes: why are you embedding an entire font into your mobile app? So you can create one off UI widgets? For corporate branding?

While every dev seems to fancy themselves a great designer, the reality is that apps end up looking like they were rejected from MySpace and Geocities for being too ugly. Custom widgets using non-system fonts (much like in the desktop and web sphere) often lose out on important accessibility baubles as well. I can certainly understand a desire for completely custom widgets on something like a full screen game. But to eschew the system fonts? Meh.

Meanwhile if your main use is branding you don't need to embed or subset the whole font. Include your logo or whatever as a sprite (vector or bitmap) and get a license for that sort of usage, it's cheaper.

If $50/seat is too much, the correct answer isn't "hey let's pirate it for my commercial app".

[usaphp]

> If $50/seat is too much, the correct answer isn't "hey let's pirate it for my commercial app"

When did I say it was a correct answer?