In an interview with Kerwin Frost, while answering a question about what he learned from collaborating with Steve Jobs,
John Mayer takes a stance on why it’s important to license fonts: “Buy the font, because free fonts are bullshit. You can always tell when someone uses it and I don’t care how good your record is, don’t come at me with a free font.
I can tell from the album cover. I can tell who downloaded it from dafont.com and went ‘why pay 500 bucks for Atlas Grotesque when I can get this thing called Grote for free?’
Yeah, but guess what? The ‘h’ is up like four pixels in the word ‘the’ and the ‘e’ is off and a whole page of that? Your brain doesn’t know it but your heart can tell.
Your heart goes ‘it’s not working’ and when you buy the font and you see a whole page of a 500 dollar font you get put at ease.”
https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/
start at 24:00
Comment on that pat of the interview regarding use of free fonts
do you agree? why or why not?
