What's New in Type
Things happening in type that seemed worth noting. Releases, announcements, the occasional find.
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opentype.systems is live. The project covers OpenType features in real design work: where they appear, how they work, which typefaces carry them. Projects document specific uses. Typefaces with notable feature sets get their own pages, and so do the designers and foundries behind them.
opentype.systems is a SEMIREGULAR STUDIO project curated by Dascălu Florin, because OpenType features rarely get the attention they deserve.
If you know of something worth adding, or spotted an error, reach out at ot.systems@semiregularstudio.com.
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If you’ve ever had to manage font licenses for a team, you know the drill: most commercial licenses cap how many people can use a font at once, and until now there wasn’t really a way to manage that inside a team beyond a spreadsheet or someone’s memory. FontBase just built a feature aimed straight at that problem.
Their new licensing feature lets you manage how your team’s fonts get used. Pick a font you already own, set the maximum number of seats it’s licensed for, and optionally an expiration date. That license then syncs automatically to your whole team, so nobody accidentally goes over what your license allows.
Once a font’s seats run out, new activations get blocked across the team until someone frees one up, and the font gets flagged as overused inside FontBase. Team owners can also see who’s using what, and deactivate any font remotely.
This feature is part of FontBase Awesome, their paid tier, so it’s not a free add-on. But it fills a gap FontBase says teams have been asking for: an actual way to enforce the seat limits already written into most commercial licenses.
For more details, FontBase has a full page on how it works.
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