One face.One way to licence it.
The licensing desk for ABeat by Kai. Personal use has been free since 2011 and stays free. Commercial use is quoted per project — this form goes to a person, not a queue. The face itself, its history and the 2011 poster live on the .com.
What works today
Personal useFree, no account, no email, no expiry. True since 2011 and not changingLive
Commercial licensingOpen and quoted per project, not per seat. Enquiry form on this page writes to our own database and mails the deskLive
office@abeatbykai.comThe address printed in the DaFont author note since 2011. Verified answering — a live SMTP probe returned 250 on 260818Live
CheckoutDeliberately not built. At this volume a person replying converts better and teaches us the pricing. It arrives when answering by hand becomes the bottleneckSoon
Distribution1,225,288 downloads on DaFont, first posted 26 May 2011 — about 27 a day for fifteen years, never promotedLive
Licence inside the fileThe .otf name table carries no LICENCE or LICENCE URL field, so 1.2M copies in the wild say nothing about how to licence them. Being rebuiltSoon
Licence the face
ABeat by Kai is a custom character set drawn by hand in Fontographer in April 2011 — 97 glyphs, 95 encoded. It has been downloaded more than 1.2 million times and never promoted once. Personal use is free and stays free. For commercial work, tell us what it is for and a person reads it and answers.
What you getThe full 97-glyph set as OTF, licensed for the use you describe. No seat counting, no annual renewalSet
What it costsPriced per project, not per seat. Small jobs are small numbers, and you get a figure before anything is signedQuoted
Who answersKai. The mailbox printed on DaFont since 2011 is the same one behind this formA person
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