Company-Sized Approach

Instead of requiring you to calculate how many monthly views your website gets, or how many computers or people will need to install the fonts, we only need one number from you: the size of your company. We think this is the most accurate and fair way to determine how much our fonts should cost.

The Company is the License Holder

As graphic designers, we’ve spent many years licensing fonts for projects for our clients and we came to the conclusion that company that uses the fonts should be the one that holds the license. That means we don’t require designers to own a license to use the fonts to create work for their clients — they’re covered under their client’s license.

Trial License

Trial Fonts are fonts that are provided free of charge by Faire Type to users for testing and trial purposes only. Trial Fonts may be used to create test visualizations, presentations, and pitches, for use within your company. Trial Fonts may be used in both paid and unpaid pitches for clients the purpose of trial and testing and to demonstrate the potential use of the Trial Fonts. You may not use the Trial Fonts in any final files for any project, commercial or non-commercial. If You wish to use the Trial Fonts for commercial purposes or for anything that spans beyond the scope of testing, You must purchase the appropriate license from Faire Type.

Student Discounts

Students can purchase our fonts with a 75% discount. Students can produce non-commercial and self-initiated commercial work with these fonts during the duration of their studies and continue to use the fonts after they graduate until they grow out of their company size tier.

Company Size Metric

In smaller companies often people will be wearing many hats — for example, in a small non-profit maybe all 8 employees will need access to their brand fonts to be able to create documents and assets. However, a much bigger online storefront with hundreds of employees, might have a design team of 3 full time designers that handle all their visual communication. So we don’t think it makes sense to charge by number of computers using the fonts. Using company size as a pricing metric is a much more fair guage of how much value the font is bringing to the brand.

Hosting Web Fonts

You can host web fonts (files ending in .woff2) on web servers under your control by using @font-face technology. You can use this code as a reference:

@fontface {
font-family: “FAIRE Sprig Sans”;
src: url(“/fonts/FAIRE-SprigSans-Regular.woff2”) format(“woff2”); }

Embedding App Fonts

We offer .otf files for embedding into App projects. If you plan on hosting your fonts on a server and not embedding the fonts, please contact us to receive .woff2 files. Most modern App software and developer tools will support the embedding of .otf files, but if you need .ttf files please contact us and we can provide them.

Using OpenType Features on the Web

To activate OpenType features on the web, you can select which feature you’d like to use, and then activate with the following css code:

#myproject {
font-feature-settings: “‘ss04’ 1”; }

Using OpenType Features on Adobe

In Adobe Illustrator go to Window > Type > OpenType, and in the bottom right corner you can activate the different stylistic sets.

In Adobe Indesign go to Window > Type & Tables > Character and click the hamburger menu in the top right corner. There you can select OpenType features.

Can I license your Fonts elsewhere?

No all our fonts are exclusively available on our website. If you see our fonts listed for sale anywhere else, please let us know.

Can I pay by credit card?

Yes, we accept all major credit cards.

More people joined our company since purchasing our license. Do I need to upgrade our license to keep using the fonts?

Yes, please contact us to upgrade your fonts and keep your license valid.

Are there any recurring costs?

Nope! Your license lasts forever. However, you may need to upgrade your license if your company grows beyond your license tier.