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fmbm: core
by: serialize-door.sh @ BOH-Command-Silo-003-25-22
created_utc: 2026-08-18T18:29:32Z
created_local: Tue Aug 18 2026, 11:29 AM PDT
time_source: local
type: Apex Door
title: ABeat by Kai
resource: https://abeatbykai.fyi/
door_template: door.template.html
door_template_version: 260817-934b49c2
serialized_utc: 2026-08-18T18:29:32Z
tags: [rail-works, apex-door, abeatbykai.fyi]
status: live
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# ABeat by Kai

Licence ABeat by Kai — a custom character set drawn by hand in 2011 and downloaded more than 1.2 million times. Free for personal use. Commercial licensing by enquiry; a person reads it and answers.

## Status
- **Personal use** — Free, no account, no email, no expiry. True since 2011 and not changing (`LIVE`)
- **Commercial licensing** — Open and quoted per project, not per seat. Enquiry form on this page writes to our own database and mails the desk (`LIVE`)
- **office@abeatbykai.com** — The address printed in the DaFont author note since 2011. Verified answering — a live SMTP probe returned 250 on 260818 (`LIVE`)
- **Checkout** — Deliberately not built. At this volume a person replying converts better and teaches us the pricing. It arrives when answering by hand becomes the bottleneck (`SOON`)
- **Distribution** — 1,225,288 downloads on DaFont, first posted 26 May 2011 — about 27 a day for fifteen years, never promoted (`LIVE`)
- **Licence inside the file** — The .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 rebuilt (`SOON`)

## Family
- [ABeat by Kai](https://abeatbykai.com) — the face · 2011, the poster, the glyph set
- [Kai Buskirk](https://kaibuskirk.com) — person · technology, merch, design, apps
- [Studio X](https://studiox88.com) — The studio — cloud, web & AI since 1988
- [Rail-Works](https://rail-works.com) — The suite — rails for work that moves