Solo
You’re a solo designer selling your own fonts. Free minor updates. Major upgrades at a discount.
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Fountain is a complete, self-hosted shop platform built on Kirby CMS — built specifically for selling type, handling licensing complexity, font file generation, and trial restrictions out of the box. Not a generic storefront retrofitted for fonts.
No subscriptions. No recurring fees. Minor updates are free, and major upgrades come at a 75% discount. You’re controlling your distribution. Build relationships with your customers and control your brand.
Font used in animation is Azimut by Benjamin Blaess, Julien Priez, and Mathieu Reguer.
Drop your font files. Fountain generates web and trial fonts automatically, and spins up single-weight products while it’s at it.
Fonts used in video is Job Clarendon from David Jonathan Ross.
Go the traditional route with desktop installations. Or explore licensing based on company size. Or sell in tiers. You decide. And make add-ons where they fit.
Font used in illustration is Aventa by Ellen Luff.
Using a merchant of record, Fountain removes a lot of beginner headache. Invoices, VAT, local taxes — all is covered in Fountain. You stay focused on fonts. Paddle support, more payment vendors coming.
Font used in illustration is IvyStyle Typewriter by Jan Maack.
Full multilingual support, slugs included. Go for /warenkorb, /boutique, or /tienda, with Fountain your shop speaks your customers’ language, URLs and all.
Kirby CMS already supports multilingual websites, and Fountains extends that capability.
Every step of the customer journey is yours to shape — page structure, zip filenames, copy, flow. Design every step in any way you prefer, right up until Paddle kicks in.
Font used in animation is Monoflow by Hans Heitmann and Johannes Ammon.
A complete family, a curated bundle, with or without variables — sell however it makes sense for your type. Price everything your way.
Customers log in with a one-time code sent to their email. No account setup, no password to forget. All purchases and invoices in one place.
The core shop functionality works without javascript entirely. Parts like the font tester enhance the experience on top of a solid, dependency-free foundation.
Set custom preview text and even fonts for each style. Show your typeface exactly the way it deserves to be seen and let customers test it.
Fountain stores one thing about your customers: their email. Everything else like address, payments, billing, taxes lives with Paddle. Less data, less liability, less to worry about.
See recent purchases, 30-day totals, and most popular font at a glance when you log in. Everything you need to know, nothing you don’t.
Yes, you need a Kirby CMS license and a Fountain license. The nice part is that you can test Kirby CMS before investing any money. If you love working with Kirby, you’ll love working with Fountain.
Fountain is built on Kirby CMS, so basic familiarity with HTML and CSS helps — especially if you want to customize the design. You don’t need to be a developer, but it’s not a drag-and-drop builder either. It’s for designers who aren’t afraid of a text editor.
Fountain can’t run on "regular" shared PHP-hosting. Because it processes font files server-side, it needs an environment where you can install Python and FontTools. We recommend a VPS or a platform that supports custom runtimes.
The easiest starting point is Railway, which has a ready-made Fountain setup — deploy in a few clicks without touching a terminal. Any other service with Docker support works just as well.
Providers like Uberspace give you full control and are well-suited for a Fountain + FontTools stack.
Once you’ve purchased a license, I’m happy to help you get set up. Server configuration, deployment, whatever you need. Reach out and we’ll sort it out.
Paddle acts as merchant of record — it handles payments, VAT, local taxes, and invoices. Fountain handles everything else: font delivery, license management, customer accounts, and your shop’s design and structure.
Support for additional merchant‑of‑record services is on its way. The next provider we’ll add is Polar, followed by Stripe Managed Payments. New implementations require a few extra steps and thorough testing. With Fountain, we’re all about simplifying the process.
Just a name, email address, and transaction history for your sales dashboard. Payment details and billing information live with Paddle. Fountain is designed with a minimal data footprint — less to store, less to worry about.
Yes. Fountain has full multilingual support, including URL slugs. /cart, /warenkorb, /boutique — your shop speaks your customers’ language throughout.
Minor updates are free, always. When a new major version releases, existing customers get 75% off the upgrade. Your license never expires — you keep what you have, it keeps working.
No. Nothing forces you to update Fountain. Even when a new Kirby version lands, unless you want a feature it adds. That said, keeping Kirby current with security releases is always good practice, and since Fountain is native Kirby, the same applies here. Fountain was originally built on Kirby 3, now works with Kirby 5 and will likely keep working with future Kirby releases out of the box.
Fountain is self-hosted by default — you run it on your own server. If you’d rather not deal with that, reach out to support@nymarktype.co and we can discuss options.
Yes. You can sell variable fonts as standalone products, combine individual weights into bundles, and set custom pricing on both.
Through a passwordless account. They enter their email, receive a one-time login code, and get access to all their purchases and invoices based on that email. No account setup, no passwords to reset.
Upload your source files and Fountain automatically generates web fonts and trial fonts. Single-weight products are created at the same time.
Not at all. Solo (€350) and Studio (€700) are built for independent designers and small foundries. Publisher (€1400) fits larger operations. Whether you have two retail fonts or two hundred, the platform scales to what you need.
More parts of life should feel like they belong to you, not just a service you subscribe to. Your foundry website should be one of them.
Not ready to buy? Try the demo, or reach out anytime at info@nymarktype.co.
You’re a solo designer selling your own fonts. Free minor updates. Major upgrades at a discount.
You’re a small team of 2–10 with your own catalog. Free minor updates. Major upgrades at a discount.
You sell fonts from multiple designers. Free minor updates. Major upgrades at a discount.