MyFonts Prospectus

How to sell your fonts at MyFonts

October 24, 2012

MyFonts, the web site with the largest collection of fonts, has a track record of selling fonts to hundreds of thousands of users ranging from those who have never bought a font before to professional designers and advertising agencies.

Participation is open to font foundries large and small, including individual designers. A simple review process ensures that your fonts meet the standards required.

MyFonts is a highly efficient and high-volume vehicle for selling fonts, offering foundries 50% of the actual price paid by a customer for your fonts. MyFonts uses its share to run the website, actively market your fonts, and provide excellent customer and foundry support. You will know exactly how your fonts are selling by viewing online sales reports that show each sale as it takes place.

To boost the sales of your fonts, you will be able to provide graphic images, font flags, PDF brochures, tags, and general descriptive information. In addition, you can set up limited-time promotions in which one or more fonts are offered at discounted prices.

Each new font that you add will also be featured on the What’s New page. In addition, the Hot New Fonts page will show how your new fonts are performing compared with other recent additions.

More about our tools for selling fonts.

Signing up, step by step

As MyFonts aims to offer its customers professionally made, original fonts, we have our own Review Board of international type experts to approve the fonts proposed by foundries new to MyFonts. Fonts are reviewed on a weekly basis, ensuring quick feedback to all applicants.

1. Submitting your work

Foundries or individuals wanting to sign up should send the following to signup@myfonts.com:

• A short text (50-100 words) presenting yourself and/or the foundry. This text is for internal use, once accepted you can submit a new text for public use.
• Finished font files of the typefaces you wish to propose. You can submit up to 10 type families, but 1 will also do. The typical number of first-time font submissions is 1 to 3 families or single fonts. Your files will exclusively be used for review until your foundry is accepted and an agreement signed. As a rule, new fonts are released in OTF and/or TTF OpenType formats.
• Not mandatory, but it can be helpful: A short descriptive text (10-50 words) about each font family.

2. Feedback

You will usually receive feedback within 2 weeks of submission. In individual cases or exceptionally busy periods this may take up to 30 days.

We have five levels of feedback:

• Immediate acceptance of all fonts submitted.
• Conditional acceptance (with suggestions for improvement).
• Expression of interest (with suggestions for further development).
• Rejection
• Acceptance of a selection of three font families

3. Agreement/contract

Once your foundry has been accepted, you’ll receive an agreement by email to sign and return. Terms and conditions.

4. Foundry Pages

Once the agreement has been signed and countersigned, MyFonts will set up a “Foundry Page”. A list of the foundry’s available fonts will be accessible from this page and link to individual “Font Pages” for each family.

We welcome material about your foundry for this page, including address, contact details, a link to your own web site, a short article, and a logo.

A type designer’s experiences with MyFonts

“As a font development studio that’s been around for quite a few years, we have had relations with plenty of distributors, big and small. In our experience MyFonts has been constantly increasing the standard of how distributors should work for the designers and studios they represent in the marketplace. I can think of many unique reasons why new and existing type designers should consider MyFonts their best option for exposure and revenue out there.

“Right off the top of my head, here are a few great things available at MyFonts but not at other major distributors:”

• Live and customizable sales reports. This is the ultimate proof of trustworthiness, relationship transparency and nothing to hide
• A team of type and technology experts, the likes of whom are nowhere else, working for the designers and the customers
• Excellent round-the-clock designer and customer support
• Self-marketing, sales analysis and special pricing tools
• The opportunity for exposure on the most popular font-centric web periodicals anywhere

— Patrick Griffin, Canada Type

Features and marketing tools

Foundries can specify the designer(s) of each font. From the font pages, we will provide a link to a “Person Page,” a page at MyFonts devoted to each designer. For people who do not already have a page on MyFonts, foundries are asked to provide biographical information about such designers so that we can establish a new designer page. For each designer we can include an article, a photo, a birth date/location, links to the list of fonts they have designed, and a list of activities (i.e. Typography, Graphic Design, Web Design).


MyFonts will offer previews of your fonts on the site, using a consistent size and preview string so users can compare fonts easily. We will also allow “test drives” of your fonts, where users can type their own text and render it at a selected point size. 


To make it easy for users to find your fonts, Foundries may specify a list of keywords for each font family.




In addition to viewing real-time sales reports, authorized representatives may request reports via e-mail, sent every month, every week, every day, or even every sale!

Terms and Conditions

Below is a summary of what you can expect and the key terms of the participation agreement that you will be asked to sign should you decide to join.

• Foundries must have sufficient rights for any fonts they wish to offer for sale. If your fonts are in any way derived from fonts or designs owned by other parties, you must obtain permission from the owner. Foundries must be prepared to offer such permission for inspection by MyFonts.

• Foundries must provide a set of fonts to MyFonts to be added to the database. The standard formats are OpenType and TrueType. The font files must be valid and complete (although for highly decorative fonts just A–Z and 0–9 are acceptable). Fonts are normally provided as zip files ready to be delivered to customers. Fonts may be uploaded to the MyFonts FTP server or submitted on a CD.

• MyFonts will include the submitted fonts in the WhatTheFont database so that they will be included in the search for a match against images uploaded by users.

• Security of your fonts is our primary concern. MyFonts stores font files on a machine behind a firewall, not on our web-server. Only MyFonts developers and support personnel will have access to the files.


• Foundries must specify one or more representatives to authorize any changes.

• Foundries set the retail prices of their fonts. The only limitation is that the pricing must not exceed the regular pricing sold through other channels. A foundry may optionally designate some of its fonts to be available free of charge provided those fonts are exclusive to MyFonts.

• Subject to this limit, foundries may change pricing at any time (except within 45 days after a sale/promotion) by notifying MyFonts in writing or by e-mail from an authorized representative.

• Foundries can add new keywords for their fonts at any time. MyFonts reserves the right to remove any irrelevant or misleading keywords.

• MyFonts pays foundry’s share of the revenue received within 45 days of the end of each month. Payment in US dollars is made using one of the selected payment methods:
-MyFonts Account -Direct Deposit (minimum payment $40) -PayPal (minimum payment $100) -Wire Transfer (minimum payment $500)