Reading the replies, I have the sense we might have different interpretations of what is being suggested here.

My understanding is this:

Click the dafont banner, then filter by sans serif fonts - you'll end up here - http://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=501. The default setting for the 'Preview' mode is blank, but visitors can customise this single-line field in order to compare how all the listed fonts display their preferred text sample. I thought the OP was essentially suggesting this single line 'Preview' mode be expanded to allow users to paste passages of text, enabling them to visualise and compare both horizontal and vertical spacing in listed font, which would help chose the most appropriate font for a given project.

If this is what the OP has in mind, I can't see a downside.

Are you talking about somehow integrating your idea within dafont, essentially expanding upon the current preview option? If so, I think it would be great. There's a neat tool at www.impallari.com/testing, which I use to test out my own fonts in development. I can see how something like this would be very useful for dafont users who were trying to select the best font for a given project.

This looks like a condensed, tightly kerned and slightly modified Harabara.

Really sorry for the delay... despite having notifications 'on', I missed this reply!


Not at all... but your comment provided me with a good starting point to expand on my position.

I wrote to the designer shortly after my first post here, but they still haven't replied. I've since noticed they've used my font on more than one template, both of which are for sale on more than one site. Earlier, when talking about multiple sales of a single template, you said that a "one-time payment is the industry norm"; do you think this also applies to multiple sales of multiple templates?

Some Kiss Miklos fans posting today!

This is a custom font, designed by Kiss Miklos for the 'Trafiq' restaurant/bar in Budapest. Details of the project can be found at http://kissmiklos.com/trafiq

This is a custom font, designed by Kiss Miklos for the 2013 Ajándék Terminal Exhibition in Hungary. More images from this font can be found at http://kissmiklos.com/ajandek-terminal-2013

Hi Peter,

Really appreciate your thoughts.

The designer has not, to my knowledge, purchased a licence, but I will need to clarify this with them, since they may have done so using an email address that bears no relationship to the username they're using on the site.

I take your point about seeing $ signs. Whilst I would like anyone who uses any of my fonts commercially to recognise that, amateur or not, they take time and effort to create, that's not my main agenda here at all. My gripe is that, in the information section of the template, the designer in question links to the dafont listing of my font, which clearly states a fee is required for commercial use. I'm pretty sure they would be underwhelmed if I were to obtain a free copy of their template and resell it multiple times, so it jars with me they've not extended me the courtesy of paying for another designer's work.

I also take your point about a one-time charge. I think I was allowing my irritation with the designer to cloud my thinking here.

On a separate note, many congrats on completing your font! I have to confess, I'm surprised to read that it's ''much improved'... as far as I could tell, it was pixel perfect when I saw examples!

Anyway, I wish you every success with it. Please do message me when it's released... I certainly would like to take a look at the header info, as you suggest.

All the best,

Steve

Hi all... I hope you can help.

I'm sure many of you know of sites like 'GraphicRiver' - designers submit templates for logos, magazines, invitations, etc, which can be downloaded and customised by other users. One designer has used one of my fonts in one of their templates and it has been purchased 29 times so far. There is no guarantee that the end user will retain my font, nor that the end user will use the template for commercial purposes.

My question is: should the designer of the template in question pay a licence fee for each download, or just a single fee covering the listing?

Thanks in advance.

Steve

Hi virmadu... my main line of work is logo design; in fact, many of my font design projects begin as logo design commissions. You can see a selection of work at http://www.explogos.com/#!portfolio/c199t.

If you're interested in discussing your requirements in more detail, please email steve@explogos.com.

'THE MAZE RUNNER' is in Pirulen Bold

The other option is to save the Illustrator file as an SVG, then use www.freefontconverter.com to convert the SVG to a TTF file. This TTF will open just fine in FontForge.

Yep... kinda surprised to see it used commercially by WWE, since I haven't been paid for it.

A slightly condensed 'As Cute As Comic'

koeiekat... that's free for personal use; I believe the OP wants to use the font for commercial purposes.

If you do not require the whole Opificio font family for your logo project, you could contact the publisher directly (http://www.monofonts.com/products/opificio/) and inquire about purchasing just a single font.

A web/software licence for the font family (which appears to consist of 10 fonts) is priced at 250 euros. Maybe they would consider 25 euros for a single font?

Just re-submit the font as if it was a new submission. The webmaster will always review the last version you upload.

I had a similar problem with Illustrator once - a font I wanted to use (which began with the letter 'E' did not appear in the main listing. But, when I scrolled down below the main listing, I noticed there were a couple of separate groups of fonts. I found the font I wanted tucked away in one of them.