[tptacek]

Serious question: who cares? There is no scarcity of high quality fonts (there are more of them available to ordinary people today than at any point in history). So they control Hoefler. If that's a problem for you, don't use Hoefler faces.

[ummonk]

Independent foundries want to sell typefaces with reasonable royalty shares. Customers want trusted marketplaces (i.e. ones where scammers aren't reselling fonts they've pirated) where they can purchase high quality fonts with reasonable licensing for reasonable prices. Both customers and foundries are poorly served by Monotype monopolizing the big font marketplaces.

The Monotype monopoly is a legitimate problem that people have legitimate complaints about.

[tptacek]

You're saying, exclusively, that Monotype is app-storing the market for fonts by buying up the common tooling designers use to transact in fonts, right? You don't care what Monotype charges for its own fonts?

(That seems like a perfectly reasonable complaint).

[mbonnet]

You're missing a key thing: font face is an artistic choice. The current situation around font licensing is akin to one guy "owning" a color.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vantablack

[tptacek]

No it's not. It's nothing at all like owning a color. A color is a property of nature. It's not an "artistic choice".