Free fonts, once ropy, are getting better; in the past few years Google has made more than 600 available. Talented type-designers find it ever easier to sell their work directly to consumers, sidestepping middlemen just as many book authors now do. The falling price of the design tools they use is encouraging novices to have a go. This, in turn, makes it easier for their big corporate customers to build in-house font teams.
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