Fair Price for Fair Use
One font, one fair price, all features included.
We use fonts too. We have spent years losing creative time to tiny license differences, seat counts, visitor counters, and small print. AP.CX licensing is the fair license we wish every font had.
Buy the font. Use the font. Keep making.
Install it on the computers you need. Use it in your design tools. Self-host the webfonts. Use it in print, logos, posters, packaging, social media posts, videos, presentations, websites, and client work.
We do not sell small packages. Most AP.CX releases are variable fonts, so the useful thing is the full system: axes, styles, formats, and features together.
The rule stays simple: fair price for fair use.
Variable fonts, full package
When you license a paid AP.CX font, you get the available package for that release. No paying again for a width, a webfont, or a basic OpenType feature.
The paid package includes desktop fonts, web fonts, self-hosting, all available axes and styles in the variable font, OpenType features included in the release, logo, print, social, video, packaging, presentation use, and the available formats for that font.
$0
Pay What You Want: minimum $0.
For students, art schools, teachers, learning, personal non-commercial work, nonprofit organizations, and creators working for nonprofits.
Student / Teacher stays generous on purpose. Students and art schools are often where tomorrow's type choices start.
Sharing your work is appreciated, never required.
$20
Fixed price: $20.
For individuals, freelancers, small studios, small businesses, and normal client projects.
Use it commercially for logos, print, websites, social posts, videos, packaging, presentations, and client work.
Up to 1 million printed items per year
Up to 1 million website visitors per year
No counters. No reporting. No surveillance. We trust you.
$2,000
Fixed price: $2,000 for standard Scale use.
Same as Creator, but with no limit.
For large-scale commercial use.
If the font becomes part of a large commercial machine, the price should reflect that value.
Buy ScaleCompare licenses
View Student, Creator, Scale, and Custom Scale side by side in a full-width responsive table.
When to upgrade
Acts the same as Creator, but with no limit.
Contact us so the license matches how the font files are bundled, accessed, or redistributed.
Need help choosing?
Student / Teacher
Use Student / Teacher. Pay what you want, minimum $0.
Student / Teacher
Use Student / Teacher for teaching, school projects, and learning material.
Student / Teacher
Use Student / Teacher for nonprofit organizations or creators working for nonprofits.
Creator
Use Creator for normal professional work and client delivery.
Creator
Use Creator when the site stays under 1 million visitors per year.
Scale
Use Scale. It is Creator with no limit for standard large use.
Scale
Use Scale for app, SaaS, product embedding, broadcast, streaming, or enterprise use.
Custom Scale
Use Custom Scale. Contact us before shipping.
Contact us
If the project involves fonts or AP.CX tools, we may be happy to participate.
Try before buying
Download the trial version from a font page before buying. Use it to test display sizes, paragraphs, logos, website mockups, and client presentations.
The trial is intentionally limited. It helps you decide if the font fits; the full licensed package is for production use.
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Yes. Use the trial version before buying to test spacing, scale, logos, website mockups, and client or internal presentations. Trial fonts are for testing, not final production.
The available package for that release: desktop fonts, web fonts, self-hosting, variable axes and styles, OpenType features, and the formats prepared for that font. We do not split paid variable fonts into small packages.
Choose Creator. It covers the designer or studio doing normal client work. If the client will install, host, edit with, or keep using the font files directly, the client should hold a license or you should buy it for them.
Yes. Student includes nonprofit organizations and creators working for nonprofits. If a nonprofit project grows into large commercial-scale use, contact us and we will keep it fair.
No. There are no counters, tracking scripts, reporting dashboards, subscription traps, or per-computer stress. Choose the tier that honestly fits the scale of the project.
Use Scale when the project needs Creator rights with no limit: high-volume print or web, large brand systems, major campaigns, apps, SaaS, product embedding, broadcast, streaming, or enterprise use.
OEM use and redistribution are separate from fixed-price Scale. They need a custom Scale invoice from $2,000 because the license must describe how the font files are bundled, accessed, or redistributed.
If a font is built on open-source work, we commonly keep it open too. Open font releases such as SquareBot Sans use the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Paid fonts fund the drawing, engineering, testing, documentation, and maintenance that make future releases possible.
Contact us and explain the context. We can grant the right to use the font when the normal price does not fit the project.
Contact us if you have an open-source project involving fonts or AP.CX tools. If it fits, we may be happy to participate.
Paid and open-source fonts
If a font is built on another open-source font, we commonly distribute it as an open font too. For open font releases such as SquareBot Sans, the preferred license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1. We believe in open source because sharing tools and source helps others learn.
Paid fonts support the drawing, engineering, testing, documentation, and maintenance that make future releases possible. Free fonts are useful, but if you want more fonts in the future, paying for fonts matters too.
Access
Explain the context and we can grant you the right to use the font. If you have an open-source project involving fonts or AP.CX tools, contact us too. We may be happy to participate.
We keep Student open and Creator intentionally affordable so designers, art schools, freelancers, small studios, small businesses, and nonprofits can use good type without friction.
If your project grows, succeeds, or reaches large commercial scale, upgrade to a Scale license.
That is the deal. Fair price for fair use.