Font Licensing Calculator
Enter the seats, pageview volume and licence prices.
Total licensing cost
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Enter values above
Desktop licence cost
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Web licence per year
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Web licence tiers
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Cost per year
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Web share of total
Worked example
With the default inputs shown below, this calculator returns the following results:
| Input | Value |
|---|---|
| Fonts needed | 1 |
| Desktop seats | 5 |
| Desktop licence per seat ($) | 40 |
| Web pageviews per month | 250000 |
| Web price per 100k pageviews per year ($) | 25 |
| Years of use | 3 |
| Result | Value |
|---|---|
| Total licensing cost | $425 |
| Desktop licence cost | $200 |
| Web licence per year | $75 |
| Web licence tiers | 3 |
| Cost per year | $142 |
| Web share of total | 52.94% |
Values shown are produced by this page in your browser; change any input to update them.
How to use the Font Licensing Calculator
- Fonts needed β default 1
- Desktop seats β default 5
- Desktop licence per seat ($) β default 40
- Web pageviews per month β default 250000
- Web price per 100k pageviews per year ($) β default 25
- Years of use β default 3
- Press Calculate to update the results instantly.
Frequently asked questions
Because web use scales with traffic rather than with the number of designers. Foundries price web licences per monthly pageview tier, usually payable annually.
Desktop licences cover installing the font on a computer for use in design software. Web licences cover serving the font files to website visitors, and the two are never interchangeable.
Use open-source families such as Inter, Source Sans or IBM Plex for body text, and license a display typeface only for headlines. That typically cuts the bill by 70β90%.