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What does selling fonts entail?

What does selling fonts entail?

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What does selling fonts entail?

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- Imagine you make an online course about how to create manga art in Adobe Illustrator. You'd need to create numerous videos explaining how to use the technical tools in Illustrator, like brushes, blending modes, layer masks, and lots more. You might spend hundreds of hours making the course, and then like a year later, Adobe does a massive update on Illustrator, and suddenly, your course isn't current anymore. The tools work differently, and all of your work is now outdated and requires time-consuming updates. Now imagine creating a font. Maybe you can make the font from some custom lettering you made that was rejected by a client. You already have a good start on the font, and now you're just filling in the characters that were missing. You post your font file up for sale, and a steady stream of income comes in for years, with no updates or additional work from you. Making fonts is especially lucrative because they tend to be evergreen and require little in terms of updates. I can…

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