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Hi - has anyone recently shopped for fonts? We are configuring a new Linux server for XPP 8.4C.1 and I have been asked to investigate what font vendor is best for XPP. I appreciate any suggestions you experts may have. 
 Thanks 
 Chris Cigno 
 Thomson Reuters

Chris Leggett · Accepted Answer

Hi Chris - I am not sure its a case of which vendor, more what they are offering in terms of characters. I would spread the load and buy the correct fonts even if that means using multiple suppliers. If you are starting from scratch then I would only look at Open Type Postscript fonts and would look at what character sets are in the font you want - an example is Times New Roman where you can get fonts with the basics or fonts to include greek, arabic, hebrew etc. - it really does depend on what you want. Also you need to buy some (not all) fonts with lots of extraneous characters so that you can point at these as part of your "secondary" fonts set-up. We tend to look at Monotype and Ascender fonts (sold through Monotype) but will also do research on each individual family we need to purchase and buy the one which offers the best in terms of characters. We also look for a complete set of non-spaced diacritics as accents are a very important part of European languages. Hope this helps!

Jay Baldwin · Answer

We also primarily use Ascender / Monotype (fonts.com). As to the question about purchase vs. lease, it's always been my understanding that fonts are "licensed." You never "own" a font. And licensing has gotten a lot more complicated, taking into account usage cases. For example, will you be delivering content to public internet sites that use this font? Or PDF files to public internet sites (that use the font)? They will want you to pay more for "licensing" if that is the case. SO, maybe that is what is meant my leasing? Or is the definition of "leasing" somehow meaning time-limited?

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