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The history of Able’s connection with the Harry Potter phenomenon is really up in the air. It’s a catch-22 in this business - you either promote your own work and negotiate expensive exclusive licenses, or you work with a promoter and sell your designs to anyone and everyone. It could have been an in-house designer at Rowling’s publisher, Scholastic, or a freelancer who proposed Able for the headings and such. The responsible party licensed it from T26, and JK Rowling’s storytelling made it a star. (I suppose it’s ironic that there’s a whole lot of unwritten history in the typography business.) Able’s rise to fame really is a classic love story between reading and type design. If the books weren’t so popular, Able might still be waiting for some Mexican fast food chain to pick it up for packaging design. The movie deal certainly made the font all the more recognizable, what with its merchandising campaign. Popularity can also cripple a great decorative face. It’s always being recognized as “The Harry Potter Font.” It might just have to wait a few decades for the Potter phenomenon to subside to be freed from the “Chamber of Pigeonholed Fonts.” In the meantime, I’m sure that a lot of fledgling graphic design apprentices are reading their new Potter books, being charmed by the idea of type design when they’re not turning the pages too fast to notice.

Able Regular

Desktop fonts are designed to
be installed on a computer for
use with applications.
Licensed per user.

Annual web fonts are licensed for a set number of page views.

Application licensing allows fonts to be embedded in your software applications. The license may be based on the number of titles or the number of installations.

Electronic Document Fonts can be
embedded in an eBook, eMagazine or
eNewspaper. Fonts are licensed
annually per issue.

Server fonts can be installed on
a server and e.g. used by automated
processes to create items.
A license is per server core CPU per year.

Select the number of users
on which the font will be installed.

Select the amount of page views
that you can use over time. We’ll let
you know when you’re running low.

Select the number of app
installations you want to license.
Some mobile app fonts allow an
unlimited number of installations.
Further information

Select the number of electronic documents
you intend to embed the font in.
Each license is valid for one issue for a year.

Select the total number of core
CPUs of the servers on which
the font will be installed.
A license has a term of 1 year.

Page views/month: Please select the
number of monthly page views
anticipated. The license has no time
limit and does not need to be replaced.
You only pay for additional page views
if your site gets more traffic than expected.

Please select the desired number of ad impressions. We’ll let
you know when you’re running low.

Select technical format and
language support of the font.

Select the language support of
the font: W1G (98 languages),
COM (56 languages),
PRO (33 languages) or
STD (21 languages).

Language versions the web font is
available in. These differ in contained
characters and file size. You get all
available versions with your license.

You will receive all available versions
with your web font license.

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Electronic Doc

Desktop fonts are designed to be installed on a computer for use with applications. Licensed per user.

Annual web fonts are licensed for a set number of page views.

Application licensing allows fonts to be embedded in your software applications. The license may be based on the number of titles or the number of installations.

Electronic Document Fonts can be embedded in an eBook, eMagazine or eNewspaper. Fonts are licensed annually per issue.

Server fonts can be installed on a server and e.g. used by automated processes to create items. A license is per server core CPU per year.

A Digital Ads license allows you to embed web fonts in digital ads, such as ads created in HTML5. These license is based on the number of ad impressions.

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