Shina Desing closed MyFonts shop & stopped selling Qualy Neue in 2025.
There were some reasons for this decision, for customers, there is the shakedown risk by Monotype in using MyFonts. https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/1jqqlm6
I'd like to keep selling on MyFonts, but for ethical reasons, I concluded that keeping selling on MyFonts is not fair trade with customers.
I'm writing this article for my past customers, and future customers who may use MyFonts.
Font industry has changed. Introducing the annual license is intended to navigate customers to the subscription model.
And famous independent type foundries have to follow this change, most of them added one more "0" to their price. https://thetypefounders.com/#foundries
Creative Market is still keeping the old pricing model, but they may change the price model in the near future. For now, they are providing the perpetual license model.
But more than half font license became high & annual in this industry, and the shakedown risk is also high.
So customers have to run away to free license fonts or safe subscription models like Adobe Fonts or Google Fonts.
Yeah, there may be no way for independent type designers, but I'd like to keep trying to discover it.