Fontself's submission feature

Toshi Omagari
Toshi Omagari Posts: 18
in Type Business
Looking at the Kickstarter page of Fontself, it seems to enable you to submit a typeface to commercial channels, just as easily as you can post a video on YouTube, it seems.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/franzhoffman/fontself-make-your-own-fonts-in-photoshop-and-illu/description

My question is, will a typeface made with Fontself (mainly designed to make ASCII set without kerning, etc.) ever pass the standard of those listed in the screenshot? Do you think any submission will actually be released? Even if a font passes initial review for its design, a designer who is only capable of Fontself cannot meet technical requirements that follow. And those who can are probably not using Fontself.

I haven't tested the released version so I cannot say if the feature in question exists now. I'm sorry of raising a moot discussion if that's absent.

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  • Ray Larabie
    Ray Larabie Posts: 1,432
    Yeah, when I saw that I pictured the MyFonts staff running from the building, screaming.

    I like this project if it works as described. Color vector and bitmap font formats already exist but we need the demand for application support to really make it take off. When all these new color font designers start tweeting about how their favourite app only supports B&W vector fonts, maybe there'll be some motivation to get it fixed.


  • Toshi Omagari
    Toshi Omagari Posts: 18
    I like the project too, it looks easy and quick, and could be a big competitor to Glyphs Mini. I hope there'll be no option to submit the font if it's a raster one.
  • James Puckett
    James Puckett Posts: 1,995
    In a year every type designer's contact page will include "WE DO NOT FINISH FONTSELF PROJECTS, NO EXCEPTIONS!"
  • Christian Thalmann
    Christian Thalmann Posts: 1,988
    Yeah, when I saw that I pictured the MyFonts staff running from the building, screaming.

    It's gotta be a field day for Dafont, though.

  • Florian Hardwig
    Florian Hardwig Posts: 269
    edited March 2016
    I’d expect MyFonts to add Fontself to the list of explicitly disapproved tools soon, see ➋:
    https://foundry.myfonts.com/prospectus/#submission-guidelines
  • Miles Newlyn
    Miles Newlyn Posts: 252
    @Florian Hardwig 
    but their first line reads 'MyFonts takes originality very seriously', so I wouldn't take any of it very seriously.

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