"Limited edition typeface"

Max Phillips

Discuss.

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

Actually, I was hoping for something more grandeur.

Miles Newlyn

custom typeface, but not customized.

Nick Shinn

I’m advertising a newly completed design for corporate exclusivity (i.e. looking for a single purchaser), in this month’s Eye magazine.

Another tactic: a limited edition with the price rising as it sells out:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/dec/10/most-expensive-photograph-ever-hackneyed-tasteless

Jack Jennings

This group is releasing all of their typefaces as finite editions as well: http://mediumextrabold.com

Arthur Reinders Folmer

The idea of bespoke files/limited availability isn't bad, but making it a digital file makes the idea void. We'll need self-destructing font files now! Or every copy getting more corrupted, now that would be something.

Max Phillips

Good luck pitching your face, Nick. That's an interesting approach. I'd love to know how it pans out.

Jack, I didn't realize mediumextrabold was doing that.  Not sure I get the point of doing that for your whole library.  I'm assuming all these people have other sources of income.  Seems a little precious.  And as a user of other people's type, it leaves me pretty cold.

Arthur, William Gibson published a fine-press limited edition of a poem back in 1992 on a lavishly presented floppy disk, which erased itself as you scrolled through it.

Nick Shinn

The Book of Poems

You start with the book

and a match

on a pitch black night.

You light the match to read the first page

Then light the first page to read the second

And so on.

You end with no match

No book

But a head full of poems.

Marc Oxborrow

I love that poem, Nick. Is it yours?

Nick Shinn

Thanks, yes. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was a teenager (this one dates from 1970), but it dried up when I went to art school. This is the only one I can remember.

Étienne Aubert Bonn

Nick Shinn said:

The Book of Poems

You start with the book

and a match

on a pitch black night.

You light the match to read the first page

Then light the first page to read the second

And so on.

You end with no match

No book

But a head full of poems.

Have you ever seen Étienne Mineur's Disappearing Book?

http://volumique.com/v2/portfolio/disappearing-book/

LeMo aka PatternMan aka Frank E Blokland

And burned fingers.