Just discovered that we are loading 200k for a custom font on one of our platforms...

200k FOR A FUCKING FONT?!? FOR REAL??? ITS NOT EVEN FUCKING DIFFERENT ON SIGHT!

So I sarcastically asked why the fuck are we using it and my coworker said its because the designer designed (duh) the layout this way...

Look... Usually I'm a quiet person and I don't rant in real life but this time I could not restrain myself.

Why not just use a cheaper, or free font. There's lots. But I'm sure you know that.

... I have nothing to say 😑

@coolq I think it's 200KB, not 200000 [currency.]

There are multiple occasions when my colleague did this and I ends up convincing the designer in using a similar font in GWF.

@osmarks
Ahhh, thanks xD
Too much economics for me 😛

What font and what book?

Tbh biggest trouble nowadays is poorly produced fonts on a per-view licence.

I'd love to know what font has 200k worth of gunk in it though.

Had the same thing on my last run... only difference is they then proceeded to dictate that the PayPal checkout must contain -said- font...

Open Sans ftw!

@Cyanide did you mean comic sans?

@minij0ker Oh no, God no! I meant Open Sans. Check it out!

@Cyanide I think you are mistaken my friend! -Facepalm-

@minij0ker I mean, you could just google it.

If you're a big company, 200k for a custom font for it's corporate identy is reasonable. Since it generates value (the brand) for the company. And it helps to differentiate itself from the competion.

And there is the production cost.... One designer works easyely up to one year drawing characters for Latin, cyrilic, hebrew, arabic, and all the special characters. And if you're a truely International company who's doing business in asia then you've got to pay a lot more for hangeul, hanzi, katakana and hiragana font systems.

Compare it on how much you earn in a year to $200000 and add the overhead costs of running a business plus a profit margin.

@Cyanide Google paid probably a lot more than $200k for Open Sans. 😄

@heyheni I think that 200K is 200KB here.

@Cyanide 😄👍