1. Because fonts are works of art and any artist deserves to be paid.
2. Because there may not be a freely licensed font with the right aesthetics
3. Especially because Japanese fonts require much more work than Latn fonts, with not some hundred glyphs (a-zA-Z0-9 and punctuation), but with thousands upon thousands of glyphs
Towaway69|3 months ago
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efilife|3 months ago
saying this never gets you a reply and always brings more downvotes. Tested it