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Font Embedding. For every system you ship into.

Custom embed licensing for desktop apps, mobile apps, browser-based products, and video games. Your font files, delivered directly, with terms scoped to your product.

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Fonts for apps, games, and every runtime in between.

Custom embed licensing scoped to the system you’re shipping into — desktop, mobile, browser, console. One license, delivered as real files, no runtime fingerprints.

When you embed a YouWorkForThem typeface into a product — a desktop app, a mobile app, a web-based tool, or a video game — you’re adding more than characters. You’re adding a layer of craft and intent that customers recognize, even when they can’t name what they’re looking at.

Our embed licenses are built around the shape of your product. Unlimited pageviews for a public web app. A per-title license for a published mobile app. A game-specific scope for titles where the font renders in-engine. A desktop-embed for tools that ship with the typeface built in. If the distribution model is unusual, we’ll scope it to match — that’s what a custom license is for.

That’s why teams at companies like Meta and Valve reach out for custom embed scenarios. When your product puts the font in front of millions of users across every kind of screen, the paperwork has to be as clean as the typography. Contact us and we’ll put together a quote that fits your scope and budget.

Surfaces
Desktop · Mobile · Browser · GameOne license scoped to the surface you’re shipping into.
Delivery
Direct font filesNo third-party JS, no CDN tracking, no runtime beacons.
Licensing options
Perpetual · subscription · customScoped to your budget and your product — from indie game developers to Valve’s Steam platform. Corporate teams can also explore company-wide licensing options.

Custom licenses tailored to your scope.

A font’s standard license covers the designer or small studio buying it to use. Embedding a typeface inside a shipped product — an app, a game, a desktop tool — is a different scope, and it needs a license extension written for that use. Here’s how we typically shape those extensions.
Mobile Apps & Games

Per-title embed for iOS, Android, and game titles.

A custom license extension covers a published app or game title — iOS, Android, or both — with unlimited installs and no per-user counts. For larger app portfolios or franchises, a multi-title extension keeps the paperwork simple.

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Web & Browser-Based Products

Unlimited pageviews for in-product rendering.

For web apps, SaaS tools, and browser-based products that render the typeface as part of the interface or user-generated content. The extension is scoped to the product, not the pageview — no throttles, no counters, no usage reporting back to us.

Desktop & Creative Tools

Embed inside a commercial desktop application.

For desktop software that ships with the typeface bundled in — design tools, editing suites, authoring environments, and any product where the font renders on the user’s machine. Scoped to the product and its install base through a custom extension.

Games & Consoles

In-engine embed for shipped game titles.

For games where the font renders inside the engine — menu systems, HUDs, subtitles, in-world signage. One extension per title, covering PC, console, mobile, and cloud distribution. Studio and franchise bundles available.

Read video game licensing guide →

These are the common shapes, not the limit. If your product doesn’t fit one of them — a hybrid device, a streaming product, an AR/VR runtime, an embedded system — we’ll custom-scope the license extension to the actual use case. Contact us with the product details and we’ll write up a matching quote.

Every surface, one library

From a phone in someone’s hand to a gaming console.

A modern product ships everywhere — iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, browser, console, handheld. A single custom embed license covers the surfaces you define, so the typeface travels with the product across runtimes without re-licensing.

Your developers get the real font files up front. No CDN requirement. No JavaScript that phones home. Fast from the first pixel.

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Your product, your control.

Unlike service-based font licensing, we don’t sit between your users and your product. You get the files, you control the render path.

Most custom-license font services bolt onto your product through a third-party JavaScript runtime or a tracked CDN — which means the font you thought you were licensing is actually being served by a vendor that can see your traffic, can rate-limit your users, and can change the terms between releases.

We do it the other way around. When you license a YouWorkForThem font for embedding, the actual font files ship to your team — TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, whichever format your build pipeline needs. You embed them inside your app, your game, your product. They render on the user’s device. Nothing phones home to us. Nothing phones home at all.

That means no runtime dependencies, no availability risk if a vendor’s CDN goes down, no performance tax on first paint, and nothing in your product’s network activity that you didn’t put there. If your team needs optimization notes or format recommendations — subsetting, variable fonts, hinting for low-DPI screens — our licensing and support teams are happy to walk through the options before you commit.

No third-party JS
Zero runtime hooksNothing injected into your product’s page or app.
No tracking beacons
Zero telemetryYour users’ activity stays between you and them.
No CDN lock-in
Files, not servicesHost the font with your product, under your infra.

Pioneers in font embedding, since 2001.

A 250,000-font library drawn from over 1,600 foundries — and two decades of writing custom embed licenses for every kind of product that’s ever needed one.

YouWorkForThem has been writing custom embed licenses since 2001 — before the App Store existed, before WOFF2 existed, before most of the companies we license to today were founded. Every format and distribution model that’s come along since, we’ve scoped a license for.

The library itself is 250,000+ typefaces from 1,600+ foundries worldwide — display, text, variable, and script families, with extended language coverage on most of them. When a product team tells us what they’re shipping and how, we can almost always point at a typeface that’s already been embedded in something similar.

Straightforward pricing, plain-English contracts, files delivered directly. Contact us with your scope and we’ll have a quote back to you fast — on time and on budget.

Library
250,000+ fontsFrom 1,600+ foundries worldwide
Experience
Embedding since 2001Desktop, mobile, web, game — every format.
Contracts
Plain-EnglishRead it once, understand it once, ship it.

Trusted by designers at the world’s top companies.

Apple
Google
Microsoft
Meta
Valve
Bloomberg
Mercedes-Benz
Coca-Cola
Starbucks
Time
Netflix
Wieden+Kennedy
Delta
Whole Foods
Instagram
Nike

Ship type into anything.

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