One other thing: I was discouraged by my experience in the '90s to even try to pursue doing type design as a career. But when I began to meet people in the early 2000s who were actually doing well in… (View Post)
Perhaps it’s a mistake to over value, but it’s also a mistake to under value. I’m not sure the market is any more or less competitive that 20 years ago. There’s more foundries and font options, but o… (View Post)
FWIW, working with multiple retailers has worked well for me. I decided in the early 2000s to do this after getting burned having a single, exclusive distributor in the '90s. My thinking at the time … (View Post)
Most of my thoughts in this venture already captured by my comments at https://github.com/microsoft/VisualTrueType/issues/30 So I'll only add two points: (1) how about fund-raising enough money to pe… (View Post)
I’d like to be clear that while I’m answering the OP and Joyce’s questions, my answers are fleshed out in assumption of a silent audience reading these responses. This is the stuff I wanted to know 2… (View Post)
I will note that there is considerable overlap between Chinese Simplified and Chinese Traditional, in terms of glyph set—although there may be different design norms. I would bet that the two Chinese… (View Post)
I believe you are dealing with a CID-keyed OpenType CFF (.otf) font. Check out the CID menu, and select a different CID range. You are probably looking for the Hangul, but there are many other ranges… (View Post)
I’ve been making a decent living from fonts for 20 years, since e-commerce was introduced, in fact. That was something I got into early, and the typefaces I designed then are the ones that keep selli… (View Post)
Business has been particularly good, and income has been steadily increasing for the past couple of decades. I do almost no promotion, I don't participate in sales, and I stopped giving introductory … (View Post)
Regarding 1000 true fans, I honestly don't see how that relates to our business model. I agree there's more than one font market, so I can't speak for other foundries. Our customers are businesses, n… (View Post)