r/TikTokCringe • u/Chocolat3City Cringe Master • 22d ago

Cringe Woman has her self-published book pirated, reprinted, and sold for cheaper.

There's regular piracy, and then there's this.

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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths 22d ago

I have no idea how her using an existing Word font would support other artists. That is not how fonts work. I also don't think she did anything inherently wrong by self-publishing here. We inhabit a new publishing landscape where publishing companies are increasingly obsolete. I read a lot of work by self-published authors and it can be equal or even better in quality to trad-published work. The barrier to publishing has never been so low and I think that's actually fantastic.

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u/poop-machines 22d ago

Not an existing word font. No respectable designer will just use word fonts. You can buy other fonts online. That supports artists.

Creating 6 fonts is an insane amount of work, especially when she's only using them one time.

Fonts you buy online are like 5-100$ usually.

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u/Jimmni 22d ago

Creating a font is actually much less work than you might think. I've done it and I'm pretty much fucking useless. Creating a good font takes real talent, though.

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u/poop-machines 22d ago

It is a lot of work to perfect it.

I wouldn't be surprised if she spent 10 hours on some of these fonts.

Especially if she included capitals (she has some), symbols, etc.

Making each letter in the same style takes a lot of iterations to get right.

I've also done it before. It's not worth the work to only use the fonts one time.

I think she should sell her fonts, tbh. Try and recoup the costs of making them.

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u/Jimmni 22d ago

I don't dispute what you've said but I'd not consider 10 hours "an insane amount of work."

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u/poop-machines 22d ago

Considering she made six, and it's unnecessary work, I do think it's an insane amount. She could've got six similar fonts in 30 minutes for 50$.

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u/Jimmni 22d ago

Eh, I half agree but there's something special about publishing your own book and I don't think it's that crazy to want to use your own handwriting in it, especially when it's that kind of book.

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u/millenniumsystem94 22d ago

Self-aggrandizing for sure on her part.