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Speaking of pricing, I personally believe that communication forms and methods should not be copyrightable. This includes fonts.

I mean, what is next, someone copyrighting the way to pronounce words?

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I don't understand what you mean. Fonts take time and effort to create, and some creators want to be able to benefit from the financial fruits of their work, with intellectual property and nonfree licenses.

Who created the way we pronounce words? We collectively did, over hundreds of years.

The shape itself is not copyrighted (in the US), only the representation in code is. It's the same concept with pronunciations: the pronunciation itself is not copyrighted, a specific recording of someone saying a word is.

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