2008/5/25 Asif Lodhi <asif.lodhi at gmail.com>: > On 5/25/08, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: >> ..... fonts take months or years. > > really true? > Would other people, who have designed one or more fonts, like to give > their opinions?
I'm studying the MA degree in Typeface Design at the University of Reading's Typography Department, and know a number of professional type designers/font developers personally. A new premier-grade type design implemented as a production quality font takes around one year to produce by a single person. On the MATD programme, we take 3 months to draw the word "adhesion" in the type design we want, and then 3 months to complete the lowercase latin alphabet and the numerals. Then another 3 months for the italic and all the diacritics required in all Europe, and another 3 for a complex (arabic, indic) or non-latin (greek/cyrillic/etc) script to complement the roman/italic. Then we spend a few months after graduating making the bold and bold italic and perfecting things. -- Regards, Dave I support www.gnuherds.org - democratic free software jobs
