FAQ

What is Tunera Type Foundry?

Tunera Type Foundry is a typeface distribution platform created by Ariel Martín Pérez in January 2020 with the goal of exploring new typographic forms and concepts and universes that are often under-represented in the field of type design. Currently, the foundry's team is composed of and Ariel Martín Pérez and Anton Moglia. To find out more, you can visit the About section.

What can I do with Tunera's fonts (published under the SIL OFL licence)?

YOU CAN

• Use them, free of costs, in all of your personal and commercial projects. If you want to support our designers, you can make a donation through the link in the panel right to the name of each font.
• Distribute them, to your friends, for instance.
• Modify them, to create new typefaces (in the open-source world, we call these variations “forks”). In that case, you have to give credits the original creator of the typeface (see this information for each case). You cannot reuse the name of the original typeface in your fork, it needs to be totally different.

YOU CAN'T

• Sell these typefaces.
• Distribute the typefaces by stripping the credit information of the font. The files presented with the font (readme.md, etc) must always be sent along with the font files. The failure to do so constitues a violation of the SIL OFL licence.
• Create forks (modified versions) of these typefaces without crediting their original author (please check out this information for each typeface). If you make a fork, you cannot reuse the name of the original typeface in your fork, it needs to be totally different.

YOU SHOULD

Even if it's not a condition included in the SIL OFL, we would like to ask you to include the credits with the typeface and its designer's name when you use one of our typefaces, specially in high-grossing creative projects. If you can’t include credits on your project (because you don’t have enough space), we recommend that you include them when presenting your project online (on your online portfolio, for instance). This way, you can help us introduce our foundry and the work of its designers to a wider public. Thanks in advance!

I've designed a typeface and I would like to distribute it through your website. Do you accept contributions?

Yes, there’s the possibility to publish new open-source fonts if they correspond to the scope of the project.

Typefaces will be studied according to the following criteria:

• Originality: This is the main point, distributing typefaces with concepts and styles that are novel and that doesn’t feel over-used. It’s better if your typeface tells an interesting story.
• Technical qualities: typefaces should be properly spaced, kerned (the space between the A and V letters should be managed, for instance) and have a certain drawing quality (points at extrema, no excess points).
• Glyphset and language support: if your font is based on the latin alphabet, it should include at least some diacritic marks (to support different languages), preferably a lowercase set, and punctuation. Typefaces that cover non-latin languages (or, even better, multi-script typefaces) are also welcome.

In any case, if you want to propose a typeface, you can contact us at contact@tunera.xyz

I am a student or graphic designer and I would like to do an internship or work for you.

Tunera is run by two freelancers who live in two different cities. Unfortunately, we don't have the capacity to host interns and (at the moment) we don't have any applications to offer. If one day this changes, we will announce it publicly on our social media. Please do not contact us by mail about this.

If Tunera's typefaces are free, how do you make a living? Who pays for all of this?

Some of Tunera's typefaces have been custom-made for different projects and have been paid for by companies and institutions. For example, the production of the Roubaix Industrielle typeface was paid for by the city of Roubaix. Other typefaces are not the subject of paid work but typographic explorations created by their authors. Most of the authors published by Tunera are freelance designers who have other sources of income. However, donations can help to thank the authors for their work.

More specifically, Anton Moglia takes care of the web design of Tunera and Ariel Martín Pérez pays for the domain name and server costs. If you want to participate in the maintenance of the Tunera website, you can make a donation to either of them via the Tunera homepage. Tunera is a non-commercial project.

I am using one of Tunera's fonts and there is a missing font or a feature I would like to have.

The fonts on the Tunera website are offered without guarantee. That said, most of them are very complete and offer a fairly broad linguistic support for most languages based on the Latin alphabet and sometimes even other alphabets such as Cyrillic. If any letter, symbol or feature is missing, you can request it from the author of the typeface. Depending on the complexity of the request, it is possible that the typeface author may ask for some kind of financial contribution in exchange for the work.

If you're tech-savvy enough, you can modify one of Tunera's fonts using a type design program of your choice and use the modified version in your projects. That's the magic of open-source typography!

I love one or several of Tunera's typefaces and I would like to commission the creation of a new typeface for my association, company, personal brand, collective, etc.

In that case, the best option is to contact the designer(s) directly to see if they are available to work on the creation of a personalised typeface, the cost of which will be indicated by them directly. The price of a new typeface generally depends on the complexity and characteristics of the desired style.

My question isn't in this FAQ yet.

Feel free to contact us at contact@tunera.xyz