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5 years ago from Jordan Winick, Director of Product Design @ Recurly
For what its worth, I had to take care of font licensing for a large company and we spent about 45k ~ USD for 3 weights (unlimited desktop usage, web usage, and in app usage). Company has about 12,000 people. That was just licensing already existing font. Imagine if you had a sans + serif, condensed, extended, weights, etc. Adds up. At one point cost of type designer and ability to at least add your own unique flair makes financial sense.
Thanks for your insight. Definitely makes sense.
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Do you have any information what kind of costs a company like Netflix would be dealing with? I'm really curious approximately how much "quite high" is.
Edit: Nevermind, on my first read-through I completely skipped him mentioning the numbers, despite actively looking for it: