The easiest font licensing for creative teams

Managing font usage and keeping up with commericial font licenses was always a pain. Not anymore. With FontBase licensing, you can easily keep your team compliant. Available now in FontBase Awesome.

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1Add any font you own to FontBase by drag and dropping it into the app or copying to the root folder.
2Go to the font family page, navigate to the Licenses tab and click "License All".
3Enter the number of maximum licensed seats and optionally the license expiration date.
4Done! Now your fonts are licensed and ready to use for your whole team.
Tailored for designer needs

Powerful team features

Create licenses

Simply add a license to any font you own. Set the maximum amount of seats and expiration date. Licenses are synced automatically across your team.

FontBase
Font
Usage
Expires
Inter
7 of 8
2029 - 11 - 27
in 8 months
Inter-Regular
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 11
in 8 months
Inter-Bold
5 of 7
2028 - 11 - 24
in 8 months
Inter-Italic
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 11
in 8 months
Inter-BoldItalic
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 10
in 8 months
Abel
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 12
in 8 months
AbhayaLibre-Regular
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 11
in 8 months
AbhayaLibre-SemiBold
6 of 7
2029 - 11 - 25
in 8 months
Futura-Regular
7 of 8
2029 - 11 - 26
in 8 months
Futura-Bold
3 of 5
2028 - 11 - 21
in 8 months
Futura-Samibold
1 of 1
2026 - 10 - 10
in 8 months
Futura-Book
1 of 3
2027 - 10 - 16
in 8 months

Restrict usage

After the licensed seat limit is reached, new activations will be blocked across your whole team and overused fonts will be marked inside FontBase.

Inter Regular
TTF
1
Futura
TTF
5
Caslon
TTF
1
Bodoni
TTF
1
Futura-Book: 1/3
Futura-Semibold: 1/1
Futura-Regular: 7/8
Futura-Bold: 3/5

Monitor your team

Team owners get to see what team members use what fonts at any time. There is also an option to deactivate any font for any team member remotely.

Subscription
Team
Providers
Billing
Profile
Members - 6 used, 3 available
Add
Dominik
Online
Futura-Regular
Futura-Book
Futura-Bold
AbhayaLibre-Regular
AbhayaLibre-Bold
CabinSketch
Calistoga-Regular
CalSans-Regular
CalSans-Bold
CalSans-Semibold
Cambay
Show all...
Riley
Offline
George
Offline

But others have it too...

You might think font license compliance for enterprise and design teams is a common feature and every font manager should have it too. Not really*. Take a better look:

FontBaseRightFontTypefaceMainTypeSuitcaseNexusFontFontExplorer
Create font licenses
Restrict font usage
Team license sync
Monitor compliance
Remote font disabling
The only other font manager offering similar licensing features is FontAgent. But it requires an extensive setup and an additional font server installation, which complicates the process a lot. So we decided not to include it in our comparison of standalone font managers.

Questions?

General

+Is font licensing available for free?

Font licensing is available as part of our FontBase Awesome subscription. With that, you can create unlimited font licenses and seats for as cheap as $3/month per team member.

+Is there a limit of fonts that I can license?

No. You can create a license for any amount of fonts you own, there are no restrictions.

+Can anyone create font licenses?

If you have a FontBase Awesome subscription, you can create and sync font licenses. If you have a multi-seat subscription, only you as the team owner will be able to create and manage licenses. Other team members will be able to only view them.

+What happens if the number of seats is exceeded?

When the preset number of seats per font license is reached (for example 5 team members have this font activated, and the license has 5 maximum seats set), new activations will be blocked, so team members will not be able to activate the font. In order to activate the font, someone from the team will need to deactivate it first.

Other

+How does license sync work exactly?

When the team owner creates licenses, they are automatically stored inside the FontBase account on our servers. If other team members are online, the new licenses are displayed in real-time inside their accounts, or synced when they come online.

+Is there any other font manager that offers similar features?

We have done the research, and the only other font manager offering similar licensing features is FontAgent. But it requires an extensive setup and an additional font server installation, which complicates the process a lot. So we decided not to include it in our comparison of standalone font managers.

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