Paul wrote: >>> On 5/25/08, avox <avox at arcor.de> wrote: >>>> ..... fonts take months or years. >>> I do plan to design at least one font whenever I can find some time. I >>> first intend to go through the Open Font Library that some kind soul >>> mentioned earlier in the thread. However, is your above statement >>> really true? >>> >>> Would other people, who have designed one or more fonts, like to give >>> their opinions? > > I have not designed my own (or a) font but I would be interested in the > process. Would this not solve the problem of using a font for commercial > work? If one designs their own font, even if it was just one section > (regular,bold), the designer (you) could use it to your hearts content, and > allow others to use it as well (with some restrictions of course). My > current method of 'writing', probably more 'printing' and 'writing', might > lend itself to creating a font package. Therefore, I would be interested in > whatever comments might show up in this forum.
Since I haven't personally designed a font (though I've started a couple of times ;-) I won't comment at length, but I think it is important to distinguish between text fonts (or general-purpose font families) on the one hand, and display fonts on the other. The latter need not take a very long time to develop, and you can create great (which could mean, for example, both beautiful & readable) page designs by using a very ordinary font for all the body text, and an "interesting" font for display text (titles, captions, pull quotes, etc.). -- Matt Gushee
