So somebody contacted me about using a glyph from Cormorant (the rapier-shaped alternate /daggerdbl/) for an album cover, which is certainly no problem, and about possibly commissioning an adaptation of said glyph to the client's ideas.
@Dave Crossland, do I understand correctly that I am allowed to take money for working on a part of Cormorant if I then release that new part under the OFL as well? Basically I'd just let the new glyph exist in the Cormorant fonts.
If so: What's a reasonable amount of money to ask for something like this? I figure it's going to be about 2–3 hours of work on my side, and I'm not a trained professional. Maybe $50? I'd like to stay on the affordable side, too, since it's a fun project.
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Fond memories of this BTW:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48413419@N00/5224762001/in/dateposted-public/
No amount of money can buy that experience... and conversation piece!
The OFL restriction on selling derivatives is byzantine.
And as far as customizing a glyph from your font. Aren't you just creating a "logo" from said glyph? You're not creating a whole derivative "font" ... Right?
Hey @Christian Thalmann, have you seen the application called Inkscape? It's free and open source. I've never used it so I can't speak to how well it works but it seems like it might help you a bit?
And as far as customizing a glyph from your font. Aren't you just creating a "logo" from said glyph? You're not creating a whole derivative "font" ... Right?
And even with a simple job, I would charge $150 - $400 depending on time. Sometimes those "easy" jobs turn out to be anything but. Generally, even for the simplest of jobs I tend to charge $150, but your mileage may vary.
And depending on where the client is, glyph shapes may not be protected by IP at all, this making it perfectly legal to do a copy of said shape.
IP rights: I’m not so much worried about the laws on the client side as about the contract I signed with Google Fonts that prohibits me from selling parts of Cormorant.
Inkscape: Have it, wasn‘t too fond of it. It exported very stripey PDFs when I first used it. It might be better now, dunno. I used PowerPoint for my last few choir concert posters.
If 150.– sounds right for a pro, I’m probably going to go with 100.–, maybe with a caveat that it’ll go up to 150.– if it escalates to more than x work hours... it’s my first paid graphic design job after all.
That said, with logo work in the US it's traditional not just to charge for labor but also to assign the rights to the logo so it can be trademarked. I'm not sure how that relates to libra at all. We don't do enough logo work for me to have looked into this.
Seriously: I like it!
As poking fun at fencing jokes: Touché! I can’t think of another one; I guess I’ll just have to riposte an old one and flèche it out a bit.
[That said, I'm not convinced by the words-not-pictures approach to this kind of discussion. If we were sitting down together, I'd be grabbing a pen and sketching ideas, because it's a visual topic.]