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• never. (Score:1)

  by genericus (4097)

  never
  • Re:never. (Score:1)

    by mary.poppins (3530)

    People pay for fonts?
    
    • Re:never. (Score:1)

      by brev (1827)

      Nah, they just go down to the forest and pick them off trees.
  • Re:never. (Score:2)

    by TorgoX (1933)

    Never ever? Not even a $5 "1001 Fonts!!" CDROM in 1994?
    • Re:never. (Score:1)

      by genericus (4097)

      That pretty much predates my computerness. My cousin, on the other hand, is a font slut and has probably purchased one or more of those...
• Like... never (Score:1)

  by yDNA Barak (3336)

  Not a penny ever.

  --
  The great thing about multitasking is that several things can go wrong at once.
• Are you kidding? (Score:1)

  by jbodoni (3320)

  I am a font!

  Further, most Bodoni family males tend to resemble the typeface: we're round in the middle, with small feet. :)

  John
• I bought the Adobe family of Arial and (Score:2)

  by hfb (74)

  Lucida a few years back and I've bought a couple of fonts from P22. Yeah, I pay for fonts.
• 1995 (Score:1)

  by grantm (164)

  I bought a copy of Corel Draw 6 in 1995 and it came with over 1000 true type fonts - I've probably used about a dozen.

  At work, I've needed to buy a few fonts on the company account. This used to happen quite a bit in the pre-CSS days. A web site designer would dictate a certain font for headings and we would render dozens of GIF images. These days of course I just say no.
• Not so long ago (Score:1)

  by essuu (3384)

  We've bought fonts for the company and to work on certain projects for clients.
• JansonText (Score:1)

  by jest (4401)

  In 1993 or so, I bought Janson for a book I was publishing that I wanted that particular font for. I think that's been it
• late 80's (Score:1)

  by phillup (4419)

  I paid for the 13 standard postscript fonts from Adobe in the late 80's.
  
  I was doing desktop publishing on my Amiga and needed them.
  
  I think they are free now, but I still have the original disk and the packaging.
• (why is the subject required?) (Score:1)

  by mendel (721)

  I rarely do type-y things anymore. Back when I was still doing web-related stuff I had to buy a handful of fonts to automate in TeX a phonebook that was being done by hand in some Windows software; the only one I remember of those was Frutiger Light Condensed (but we didn't end up using it).
  
  If I were the sort to do type-y things, though, I'd be buying fonts regularly, because the quality of the free ones would drive me mad.
  
  Oh, I've probably bought letraset since, does that count?
• Once, maybe (Score:1)

  by jdporter (36)

  A few years ago I bought a used baptismal font. Does that count?
• Years ago, or real soon (Score:1)

  by brev (1827)

  But then, only on behalf of graphic design shops where I worked. I've usually had access to organizations that had paid-up licenses, so I would skim off those.
  
  I'm doing a bit of graphics for my aikido dojo and it pains me that I can't afford to get what I want legally. I'm skimming off work again, but it's not very ethical, plus I'm limited to whatever they bought.
  
  I may break down and commit a few dollars to this .
• Twice (Score:2)

  by pudge (1)

  I twice purchased fonts, both times as part of larger packages, both times Adobe. Sonata was a music notation font that came with Deluxe Music Construction Set, and Alexandria was a Greek font that came with macBible. Alexandria was the last one, and that was in ... oh, 1991?