What’s the use of a font license?
Thank you very much for visiting typofonderie.com, for your interest in our work and especially in the various typographic related designs we offer. In fact, you never purchase a font, but the right of use of that font. Right of use are covered by the end user license that you approve during purchase process. Note that typeface design is protected by the French intellectual property code + Legifrance.
By extension, the font file is the digital representation of a typeface design protected by the French intellectual property code. A font file is a piece of software that you install on a computer, that embedded on an app, or use on a website, etc.
Each of these uses are governed by a license agreement. In short, what make the price of font license is the quantity, the number of users not the topic, project as it can be for illustration or photography. To continue with comparaison, you can hire a photographer for a unique portrait to be used once, on the context of a unique situation by a large team of designers. When you buy a font license, you buy it for your own use, and you can use the font perpetually for any kind of projects.
