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I'm just glad I was on the toilet when I read the news on Twitter this morning.

I suppose what's surprising about this, amongst other things, is the low price.

How could Monotype resist? The official asking price was $130 million, but FontShop was offering a 90% introductory discount this month.

The first option. Fake Asian scripts are no longer usable in commercial work because using them causes an immediate backlash. So a fake Asian font has almost zero value as a retail product.

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Hello Yomar,

Your question seems to imply that you did not work for many 'BIG' customers before. My advice is to take it easy and negotiate in a relaxed manner with your client. The valuable advices by all these millionaires on this forum are priceless, but perhaps it's easier for them in their circumstances to ask for premium prices (i.e., for them these are not premium) than it's for you at the moment.

If this is a Lighthouse Customer, play it smart. Four weights are perhaps better than three. Raise your price and include Turkish, Central- and Eastern European characters. Make a separate quote for delta hinting, if applicable. If you're doing a proper job, they will remain your customer and other customers will probably follow. Success!

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I would suggest (and most my clients prefer) you separate the large family into 5 families:
Nigella, Nigella Condensed, Nigella Rounded, Nigella Angular, Nigella Wide. Having five family names in the font menu makes finding the particular font much easier than scrolling though a gigantic list under one name.

Or Tobias's boss, Jane Patterson. The press is getting fed one thing by one side, and one other class of thing by deother, piling that on their own post-digital revolutionary inexpertise concerning the period in question which I think, has left the fooled gates open. My feeling is whoever talks the most loses and if the whole mess was swept under the descenders we'd all be happier.

Ok... maybe not the best (just joking). But this one is very different from every other type specimen book I've ever seen. Not for the typefaces, but for for the texts of each specimen. I'm loving it, can't stop reading.

A few excerpts:








Full: https://archive.org/stream/typesofdevinnepr00devirich#page/n0/mode/thumb

I put together a script that installs robofab, vanilla and fonttools into python 2.6 (for Glyphs) and 2.7 for everything else.
Please have a look:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3563666/InstallLibraries.py.zip
I will put in my github soon.
It is almost the one click solution. The usage is explained in the top of the file:

copy the script into an empty folder, e.g. a new folder on the desktop. Then open the Terminal, write "python" and drag the script from the Finder into the Terminal window.
It should look like this:
python /Path/to/the/Script/InstallLibraries.py

Then hit enter. Please enter your password when asked.

I tested it only on 10.9 so fare but it should run in 10.7–8, too.