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Sam Berlow of @thetypefounders.bsky.social interviewed by type.today journal: type.today/en/journal/t.... Good questions and pretty transparent answers. This is the most I’ve read about the company’s business structure. #TypeIndustry #TheTypeFounders #TypeDesign #Fonts

“When we started this, the designers were thinking: how am I going to stop running this business and still get paid for my intellectual property? And the only real option was to sell to Monotype. So our idea was to come up with a different kind of plan, where you could sell your foundry —

'I would protest that' is not reassuring.

I sold to TTF in 22 (my work is in that article) because doing this full time and taking care of Mom is unsustainable not because I wanted to stop making type I signed on because these guys were the most cognizant of keeping Monotype’s foot off your neck, and they are doing a very good job of that

they’ve also been VERY accommodating and understanding of my work as a caregiver, and the effort it takes to restructure a career when that’s a responsibility my latest collection has taken 3 years to develop—a bananas amount of time for me—and they’ve been so kind about it