My favorite part of this post: even the designer who is trying so. hard. to empathize with "ignorant" customers still managed to suggest inflicting hundreds of dollars of font licensing costs on the project (go price Mariposa). But hey! At least you're not yet another website using Papyrus.
Perhaps we need a "designers from hell". I'd put somewhere up there: typography geek who insists on paying absurd sums for typefaces because they're so amazing. But at least "insists on making your whole site in Flash" seems to be on its way out.
We just shelled out something sick for FF DIN for our website, because that's what our designers spec'd. I'm not upset about it, because I'm a type geek, but I'm not kidding myself that any of my customers can tell it from Arial.
I did, following the link on the original article. If you don't need the full 5-font pack ($179) it's between $39 and $54, depending on the variant. Doesn't seem outlandish to me.
