Typophile - Custom type design pricing and timeline - Comments

Just the w & g - surely.

Eben Sorkin — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:52:09 -0700

Just the w & g - surely.

My last name is Budwig -

eeblet — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:33:49 -0700

My last name is Budwig - full of suicidal letters. (Too bad it’s not Kudwig)

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Philosophically:

Choz Cunningham — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:31:55 -0700

Philosophically: “G”/”g”
Technically: either “z” (tough as hell), or “n” (important as same)

C ! .~

Huh. If it had been clear

cerulean — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:43:43 -0700

Huh. If it had been clear the job was just one letter, I think I would have done it. But it’s best not to work with people who can’t communicate with me coherently, anyway. And, you know, nutcakes. If it’s the same guy, I don’t want to try to think too much about why the deadline was so urgent.

That’s got to be a joke,

eeblet — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:08:27 -0700

That’s got to be a joke, k?

(I am reminded of this book [potentially unsafe for work])

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Thus the impact for using

jackson — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:32:39 -0700

Thus the impact for using the wrong shape “K” does not only symbolise tragedy for humans but also God.

Amen, crazy brother.

The problem for me is that

dezcom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:57:04 -0700

The problem for me is that both are so unrewarding. When you finish, you feel as though you avoided stepping in a mud puddle—when you finish an S, you feel like you have just put icing on a cake.

ChrisL

I love drawing Z. W usually

James Puckett — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:10:14 -0700

I love drawing Z. W usually has me beating my head on my desk.

For me it is W and Z. Those

dezcom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:45:37 -0700

For me it is W and Z. Those nasty diagonal beasts!

ChrisL

Is it a premonition to what

AGL — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:26:14 -0700

Is it a premonition to what could happen to the “s” and “S”, depending on the openness of the project?

“In vast majority of the

dan_reynolds — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:25:46 -0700

“In vast majority of the cases both on individual and professional levels, the alphabet “K” is being wrongly shaped, it is being shaped as “three intersecting lines” (see Examples “K” Alphabet) not as “two intersecting lines” (see Examples “K” Alphabet). In handwriting people are having the “three intersecting lines” because it is much easier to write it that way.

This is risky because it is possible that people and society could be putting themselves unconsciously in a suicide mode. There has to be education and awareness of this.”

From http://Kalphabet.googlepages.com/home6

So, if I just decide to end it all, it will be because of the letter k?

Look, when I’m drawing type, I often get desperate. But if there is a letter that gives me thoughts of suicide from its difficulty to design, the k isn’t it ;-)

Oh my. This boggles all

dan_reynolds — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:20:24 -0700

Oh my.

This boggles all comprehension. Why would anyone, for any reason, want to replace the Latin letters k and K with a Devanagari ka (क)? It makes no sense! It does not make sense on any level!! How about three exclamation points, just for emphasis!!!

Hm, that looks like this guy

Jens Kutilek — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:43:15 -0700

Hm, that looks like this guy in his effort to replace the letter K by something else:

Font Design
URGENT - sanskrit devanagari open license font
URGENT HELP NEEDED: 2 ALPHABETS FOR A TYPEFACE
Have You Got Fontographer / Any Font Software ?

His basic mistake is that he says “alphabet” when he means “glyph”, like on this interesting website.

Finally he seems to have found someone to do it, with limited results:

BBT Font Launch

And next, it seems, he is going to take on all our UI fonts:

GUI/UI Fonts: What variables put them apart from other fonts?

(edit: link corrected)

Gee, a whole hundred bucks!

dezcom — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:35:29 -0700

Gee, a whole hundred bucks! Wow! There should be huge lines of folks itching to take that on.

ChrisL

Here’s an example of a

cerulean — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 05:07:25 -0700

Here’s an example of a WRONG answer...

Custom type design pricing and timeline

Michael Wallner — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:11:39 -0700

A former employer of mine has asked me to design a custom typeface for them. The project really excites me, but I have never done a custom face before and really feel a little overwhelmed at the prospect of creating one. They have been using an instance of Myriad MM that the designer created and they really like it but they need to have complete rights to the typeface as they want to include it in downloadable media kits for ad campaigns. They are looking for the typeface to have, as they say “a neutral sans feeling to it” similar to Myriad. They need regular, semibold and bold weights (no italics) that include all the glyphs needed for both the English and Spanish language. Since this is my first time through this process I want to give them a single price and not by the hour because it will most likely take me longer to complete the design. I have no idea what a custom typeface should cost and am looking for some help in figuring out what to charge them. I would really appreciate to hear any ballpark figures on where to start with the cost, or any good guidelines to figure that part out.

I also need to give them some rough timeline for the completion of the design.

Any help is really appreciated,
Michael