Licensing

A font licence is permission to use a piece of software. Ours is priced on one question: how large is the organisation the work is for?

The licence holder is the end client, the party whose name the work goes out under. A designer or agency working for that client is covered by the client’s licence for that client’s work, and needs no licence of their own.

We do not count page views, seats or impressions, and nothing expires. A licence is bought once.

Five licence types cover where the type will appear. Most projects need Desktop, Web, or both.

Buy two or more types in one order and the bundle discount applies by itself: 10% off for two, 20% for three, 25% for four, 30% for all five.

Count everyone who works for the licence holder, not only the people who touch the fonts. The tier sets a multiplier on the style price.

If the organisation grows into the next tier, pay the difference between the two tiers and nothing more.

• Students: 70% off. For coursework and personal projects. Order with a school email address.
• Non-profits, independent galleries and schools: 30% off. Tell us what the organisation does in the order note.
• Complete families are always priced well below the sum of their styles.

Discount orders are checked by a person, usually within a working day.

The five licence types cover nearly every order. These uses need a written extension first:

• Fonts built into hardware or devices that are sold.
• Platforms where the public sets their own text in the font: template tools, site builders, web-to-print.
• One licence shared across a group of separately run brands.
• Any use by an organisation above the Group tier.

Upgrading from single styles to the complete family costs the difference in price. Write to hello@hyperfount.example.

Every family has a trial version with upper- and lowercase, figures and basic punctuation. Trials are for testing layouts and pitching ideas. They may not appear in published or paid work.

When a pitch is won, the client buys the licence. Get trial fonts.

The font files may not be altered, renamed, converted to other formats or extended with new glyphs. Converting set text to outlines for a logo or a piece of lettering is fine.

If a project needs a missing glyph, another script or a cut of its own, that is custom work, and we take it on. See Custom type.

We care where the letters end up. The fonts may not be used to promote hatred, discrimination or violence against people.

Work made for a political campaign needs our written agreement before it is published.

Font software cannot be returned, so sales are final. If a file is faulty, we fix it or refund it.

Bought the wrong licence type or tier? Write within 14 days and we swap it.