FAQ & Licensing Information

The prices for Print, Website, and Mobile App Licenses are all based on the company size of the License Owner. For use on Social Media, we look at the number of followers (the first 25k are for free).

We believe that individuals, small companies, and institutions should not have to pay the same price for a typeface as large companies. Therefore, we’ve established a “value based” pricing system as opposed to “usage based” pricing. We reckon: The bigger the size and reach of a company, the bigger the commercial value being extracted from the typeface.

Following that understanding, we’ve based the price of a typeface on the company size of the License Owner, rather than on how many people within that company use the font files. Imagine a large car company where only a small number of employees actually work on computers, compared to a small cultural institution or non-governmental organization where a lot of the work is done with computers.

Tip for designers: Adding typeface licensing costs to your initial design quote right from the start (next to photography, printing, your design fee, etc.) helps avoid confusion or problems with clients down-the-line.

Try making the client understand the value that quality typefaces bring to the table, and the many hours and minds that it takes to create them. To put it in the words of Aldo Gucci: “Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten.”

We offer Limited Licenses for using the font files in Print, Web, Social Media, and Mobile Apps. Additionally there is the optional “Subcontractor“ add-on, which allows the License Owner to share the font files with third party subcontractors. You can get those directly via this website. We also offer Unlimited Licenses (more in other sections of this FAQ)—please get in touch for information regarding those.

Yes! Each order automatically generates an invoice, which is sent to you after your purchase.

Yes! Trial versions of all our typefaces are available for free. These cover A-Z, a-z, and 0-9, and include Variable / OTF / WOFF formats. You can get them all on this page, or via each typeface’s page. Enjoy your test drive!

During check-out, you have the option to differentiate between Billing Details and License Owner Details, in case you’re buying the license on behalf of your client (ie. the License Owner)

You can also prepare a “Cart” for your client, and send them a “Cart Link,” so that they can check out and pay themselves.

Yes! You’ll always receive the most recent files of typefaces that you’ve purchased. You can download new files directly via your personal customer page.

Even if you’ve purchased an entire family, and we add more font styles to that family at some point, you’ll receive those new, additional styles at no additional cost.

Yes! We offer student discounts of 50% off all typefaces, so long as they’re used for individual, non-commercial or and student-initiated, commercial projects (that is, for instance, your own T-Shirt label). If you apply for a such a discount, you can identify your student status during the check out process.

We also offer a Dinamo Educational Font Package that contains a selection of our typefaces for only €123! 🦉

How it works:

• Click the “Buy Font” button on your chosen typeface’s page
• When asked for whom the typeface is being used, click “Yourself” and tick to confirm in the “Are you a student?” box
• Add the font styles you want to your bag
• You’ll be asked to confirm your student status during checkout

We offer a package that contains full versions of a selection of our typefaces for a discounted price of €123. Students are allowed to produce any type of work with these typefaces during the duration of their studies. These typefaces carry the suffix “Edu“ in the font name (which stands for “educational”), ie. “ABC Favorit Edu Regular.“

In total, the Dinamo Student Font Pack contains 14 different families and 400 font styles in total, including:
× Diatype
× Favorit
× Favorit Mono
× Favorit Lining
× Grow
× Pareto
× Prophet
× Whyte

In the case of commissioned, commercial projects, your client needs to purchase the font License(s). You can also purchase License(s) on behalf of your client.

In general: At Dinamo, the designer (you) never needs to pay for a License. It’s always the client who owns the License and who needs to cover all of the production costs behind a project (including printing, development, material supplies, and therefore also the typefaces in use).

As a License Owner, your License covers your own company and one subcontractor. In the case that you have more than one subcontractor, you’ll need to obtain the Subcontractor add-on.

It’s actually the other way round: your client, who is the License Owner, needs to purchase all required Licenses. You’ll then be covered by the License of your client.

Congratulations that your business is doing so well!

You can add Licenses or upgrade the License Tier of previously purchased Licenses any time after your initial purchase via the panel on your personal customer page.

Yes, but you will either need a Social Media License or an Ad-Campaign/Broadcasting License to cover for that use (a Print License does not suffice). Both are described in this FAQ, and can get licensed via this website or by getting in touch with us.

Hell no! Regard a typeface as the results of years of practice, doubt, and consideration, which has been poured into various shapes and distilled into digital font files. We hope you appreciate the work of your fellow designers and understand that you’re not allowed to change anything without permission.

If you imagine the typeface might be better differently, please get in touch with us. We can potentially apply the modifications that you have in mind with and for you!

Dinamo fonts are optimized for up-to-date browsers, mobile operating systems, and professional graphic design applications. Dinamo does not guarantee support for office applications like Microsoft Word. In any case, please don’t hesitate to get in touch via email.

You can use this code:

@fontface {
  font-family: "Favorit";
  src: url("/fonts/Favorit-Regular.woff2") format("woff2"),
       url("/fonts/Favorit-Regular.woff") format("woff");
}

We recommend the following guide for Xcode:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/text_display_and_fonts/adding_a_custom_font_to_your_app

And this guide for Android Studio.

For use on Desktop Computers and inside iOS/Android applications we provide OTF files. For implementation into Websites and Web Browsers, we provide: WOFF/WOFF2

Variable Fonts for Desktop Computers are provided as TTF files and Variable Fonts for Web are provided as WOFF/WOFF2 files.

Most of the formats which people request (EOT, SVG) are outdated and not necessary anymore today. However, we can generate TrueType (TTF) files in case they are really needed—please get in touch.

You can use this website to see font file support across different web browsers:
caniuse.com woff
caniuse.com woff2

Each typeface comes with a set of pre-defined vertical metrics. Desktop publishing tools, browsers, and operating systems interpret those values differently. There’s no one-to-rule-them-all solution to visually center the typeface in a way that works across all those operating systems and browsers.

We produce our typefaces using values that ensure that no part of the design (for instance accents) are being clipped—as this would be the worst, wouldn’t it? —and we apply a set of rules that guarantee as-best-as-currently-possible-scenarios, as far as we can control it.

This website provides great help at controlling and fine-tuning the vertical orientation of text within your layout! Hope it helps.

Yes, we occasionally accept commissions for custom typeface designs, word marks, or modifications of our Retail Library typeface releases.

We’ve done so for SSENSE, Acqua di Parma, Warp Records, Suisse Institute, RIMOWA, The International Olympic Committee (IOC), and Nike, among others.

For inquiries, please get in touch via email and kindly describe the vision and scope of your project.

A typeface designed in close collaboration with you and custom-tailored to suit your needs. It can either mean that we modify one of our existing typefaces, or design a new bespoke typeface from scratch. Only you will be able to use this bespoke typeface—it might even carry your name!

Yes! Just get in touch and tell us what you need and what you can give.

Adding your company’s name—say “Taco Bell“—to one of our typefaces to turn it into—for example, “Taco Bell Favorit”—obviously feels great and is a boost of confidence. But it‘s also very practical: It’s an easy way to make sure everybody working for “Taco Bell“ (to stick to this tasty example) uses the right typeface.

Naturally, custom naming is something we received a lot of requests for, and we’ve done so manually in the past for our clients.

For this new website, however, we’ve developed a server-side feature, which we’re proud of: You can now automatically add your own name to the typeface during check-out for a small additional fee. Our website will then generate new and customized font files with your named typefaces on the fly.

Its actually very easy and can be done in few steps online:

• As you choose the licenses you need, you can also select the “custom font naming“ add-on
• Once selected, you can enter a prefix of your choice
• Below the input field, you’ll get preview of your custom named font files
• Once you’ve completed your checkout process, our system will generate and then send you the new font files on the fly
• Please note: Changing the name after you’ve completed your checkout doesn’t work. Think about your name carefully :-)

Yes, once you’ve completed the checkout process, your custom named files will be delivered straight to your inbox and, additionally, they’ll be available for download on your user page.

Unfortunately we cannot issue refunds for software purchases.