Freelance Business Question: Who pays for fonts?

I'm still pretty new in this freelance racket (and therefore still quite poor). If I need to acquire a specific font for a project, I'm supposed to pay for it, or is it OK to pass this cost on to the customer?

Thank you!

~ Valerie

I don't think that the issue is the font file itself should be passed, but the acquisition cost there.

I'm probably NOT the typical freelance, but that's how I would handle it...

Include a charge for the police (at cost) on the invoice for the work, if not quite common fonts that you just can't seem to have, so that the client knows that you had to spend money to complete the work, then, if it is a police is generally useful that you can use again for another work , discount the full amount (you do not charge clients for your other fonts you?).

If the police will likely never be used for anyone but this customer, you have three options, based on how much the customer is likely to be for your business:

1) discount all the cost on the first Bill as a show of good faith, especially if the rest of the billing of the project will cover the cost of the policy, or it's an established customer.

(2) discount part of the cost on each of the invoices of several, perhaps the first three, they continue to do business with you. (Worst case here, it is that you eat the first slice discount if you never see the cleint once again, but you earn points to be willing to invest in your tools, even if they are not really useful)

(3) Bill all the costs without a discount.

I would use this last option only for a large company with a large budget which is expected to pay for this kind of thing, or if you have discussed the need to purchase a policy with the client in advance. Most of my clients are very small businesses, individuals or non-profit with a small budget and I dream of tights with fees for a few hundred dollars for a font I could use again. This actually happened to me last year, with one of my profit, and I ate the cost of a policy to rebuild their logo ($170), even if they use it any other way. Billing for labor was $187,50, so I ended up making a very small amount of money for three hours, I put in the work, including the time it takes to identify the font, but they keep sending me work once or twice a year that pays very well.

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