Talk:MyFonts

Notability / Site may contain scam components[edit]

This article has zero non-affilated sources and nothing to indicate that it is notable in any way. I almost tagged it as a speedy delete for spam. Movingboxes (talk) 05:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree This firm is important to everyone needing a computer font or an illustration of the use of a font. --DThomsen8 (talk) 19:20, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Disagree This is the largest distributor of digital type out there, if they get deleted, we need to delete all type foundries, period. Also, please note @Squish7 that MyFonts doesn't set prices – the rightsholders and designers do. The people who own the rights to Courier, for example, set the Courier prices. Yes, you may get a license for those fonts with most OS packages but that doesn't mean it's free, just that the license was granted to you via your purchase of the OS ... Microsoft or Apple or whoever bought it for you. --moehong (talk) 11:18, 9 November 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.234.214.110 (talk) [reply]

Agree The site is a blatant scam. Go to myfonts.com and search for "Courier New" which has been a standard general computer font and web font since the dawn of time. They're trying to sell licenses for hundreds to thousands of dollars for it. Courier New "Desktop" use $110, "Web" use $110, "App" use $1,100, "Server" use $1,100. It's not selling special software or anything like that. They're just licenses for the use. The "Licensing" section seems to be the same for all the fonts I look at, and the EULA link brings up the site's customized terms, not something published by the original developers. I got to it from another site operating in a deceptive template, 1001fonts.com. It says the fonts are free, but when you search for a common font, it brings up stray results and puts an advertisement link to myfonts.com with an example of the font you're looking for on the ad, so you think you found your search result and click the ad and go to myfonts.com. I agree with the speedy deletion for spam. To respond to the above, you can be large and still be illegal. Things aren't legal just because they're big and plentiful. If these other sites are also scams, then yes, we need to delete the others, too. Do we actually need an even user vote to keep around something engaging in blatant fraud at a foundational level? Squish7 (talk) 01:22, 1 March 2016 (UTC) Revision: I did more research. The font "Courier New" seems to be owned by the company behind MyFonts--Windows says the copyright of Courier New is owned by an older branch "Monotype Corporation" of Monotype Imaging who owns MyFonts--but it's still extremely deceiving. If you have a legal copy of Windows, you can naturally use all the fonts that Microsoft has licensed and pre-installed on it on your own desktop computer at least, so selling "Desktop use" and "web use" licenses to disturbingly common fonts that people have already paid the correct licenses for and hence that you have inherited from purchasing their software is still strictly illegal. I'm too tired from this to integrate this revised information with my previous post so I'll just let the first post sit as my initial thoughts on the matter, as they're still eerily similar even with this new info, and other people might have the same initial reaction. Squish7 (talk) 03:10, 1 March 2016 (UTC) Please include [[User:Squish7]] in replies to ping me.[reply]

@Squish7: - I am not aware of the details surrounding this, but it's possible that this is for Linux embedded systems which do not run Windows, or it might contain extra characters compared to system Courier New. The site is certainly not a scam - nobody has to buy this product. Blythwood (talk) 15:26, 21 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]