Apologies, I totally misread this bit of your comment:

> Until foundries start adopting sensible licenses for webfonts I’ll just refuse to give money to them.

Yeah of course you shouldn't feel obligated to pay for what you don't want. I assumed it meant you'd just 'steal' it if you didn't like the license.

I'd never steal a font considering there are countless free, open source alternatives out there. But I also refuse to pay an insane amount of money to type foundries because they decided that "page views" are a reasonable indicator of how much value I'm getting for a typeface.

I worked on websites where the cost of a license for the font was 70% of the total budget available for the entire project. That makes no sense to me. I love great typography. I love great typefaces. But a typeface is not all that important in the grand scheme of things. I can change a typeface on literally every single one of the hundreds of websites I worked on in my career and I bet 95% of the users would not notice it nor care cabout it.

We are all colletively getting pissed super quickly when software goes subscription but we're fine when someone is selling me a typeface that comes with 50000 page views and once those are "used" I have to pay again. For a goddamn file I self host myself.

It's just bonkers.