{"id":77651,"date":"2025-03-05T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/?p=77651"},"modified":"2025-03-28T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:38:24","slug":"a-bit-from-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/a-bit-from-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"A bit from BITS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I went to Bangkok, Thailand,<\/strong> for the first time last month, attending the the <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.cadsondemak.com\/bits-11\">BITS design conference <\/a>with a few colleagues on behalf of our <a href=\"http:\/\/monotype.com\">employer<\/a>. While I was still in town after the conference I was invited to stop by the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8xcIPtr4WaU?t=3588\">Cadson Demak podcast<\/a>. (See just the bit in English on <a href=\"https:\/\/fontplatform.monotype.com\/content\/resources\/interviews\/subscription-model-with-dan-rhatigan-on-cadson-demak-podcast\">Monotype\u2019s Foundry Platform<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-77652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Cadson-Demak-podcast.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We talked about my role as Director of Inventory Strategy &amp; Curation at Monotype, and discussed font licensing and the rise of subscription models. Among other things, I explained how a shift away from perpetual licenses can give foundries increased discoverability and secure a steady income stream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to Bangkok, Thailand, for the first time last month, attending the the BITS design conference with a few colleagues on behalf of our employer. While I was still in town after the conference I was invited to stop by the Cadson Demak podcast. (See just the bit in English on Monotype\u2019s Foundry Platform.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2025\/03\/05\/a-bit-from-bits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A bit from BITS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultramedia","category-ultratypographic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77653,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77651\/revisions\/77653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}