Japanese commercial font company acquisition leads to over 50x price increase
automaton-media.com> The main factor behind this shift appears to be the acquisition of Fontworks by the US-based Monotype in 2023.
When I read the headline, my bet was that the culprit would be US Private Equity, and that there's no way a Japanese or Chinese company would pull such a move. That kind of destructive rent extraction is just not in their normal playbooks.
Yeah, I wasn't entirely correct, but pretty damn close.