Prompt 01: CUTE - donations

CUTE, “Conditions d'utilisations typographiques engageantes” (engaging typographic conditions for use) were developed between 2022 and 2024 by Bye Bye Binary. The Franco-Belgian collective is invested in proliferating a specific post-binary typographic practice. The CUTE stipulates under which conditions the fonts can be used and modified and brings up two important issues. 

These conditions—quite unusual for a free licence—ask users and reusers to take into account their own economic situation and financially support the typographic practice of those that release the fonts. 

CC4r doesn't refer to donations, nor payments. Would there be a way to rewrite the text to integrate a concern for the economic conditions of users and re-users?

Donation

The fonts distributed under these terms of use have been designed by and for people who stand in solidarity with the struggles against cis-hetero-patriarchy, white supremacy, validism and capitalism. The use of post-binary fonts is obviously not a substitute for other militant actions against these systems of oppression.

These conditions of use encompass the question of the virtuous economy of research and the adoption of a materialist feminist position [😈]. Receiving donations creates the material conditions of existence for researchers active in the field of post-binary typography. Indeed, financial support makes it possible for people who can't afford unpaid work to participate, encourages designers to publish more, and opens the door to greater aesthetic and political variety. This field of research is precarious, existing on a shoestring thanks to a few grants and one-off commissions. Integrating a scale of donations with the conditions of use of fonts allows us to insist on concrete needs at different points in the ecosystem. This text thus distances itself from the received idea that “free” equals “gratis”.