Hi!
I'm a young designer from Montreal and I'm currently in the process of applying as a foundry to MyFonts and I'd like to hear the opinion of more experienced type designers on at least one of the fonts I'm sending.
For a little more background, I began type design just for fun and because I was curious almost 3 years ago. I know I've come a very, very long way since then. I started with FontForge and more recently bought a Mac as well as Glyphs, which obviously makes a huge difference. I've been selling my fonts on Dafont (don't look me up my fonts on there are very very bad) for sometime now and I believe I'm ready for something more professional. I guess this is a way to be sure of that. I want to know what's missing for this font to be good enough for a more professional use.
So here is
Ghostlight, a serif designed with important inspiration from
Clarendon and
Egizio. It has a pretty extended support of Latin, including Vietnamese, and a basic set of Cyrillic and Greek characters. It also has many discretionary ligatures and stylistic alternates. The family is composed of 5 weights from Light to Bold, all declined in italic.
Here's the basic alphabet.


Attached is a PDF showing various usage examples, as well as the Cyrillic and Greek alphabet. By the way it would help me a lot if a a native Cyrillic reader and Greek reader could tell me what they think of these alphabets. I didn't quite show everything in the PDF. If you're interested in more extensive samples of the OpenType features, extended languages or the italic for instance, just tell me and I'll add other PDFs showcasing these features.
Comments
Sorry, but I have to strongly discourage you from heading for Myfonts or any other font sale attempts at this stage. The very first view at your worthwhile design draft endeavours reveals dozens of yet-to-be-mastered bloody font design basics.
My advice to you (and others at this stage):
1. Learn type properly (with a real tutor),
2. Learn to produce fonts,
3. Head for type business.
– In that order.
And please, ask yourself rigidly: why am I thinking I ought to do that kind of stuff which obviously Hundreds of designers have done far better before me. What for?!
And I think Ghostlight is starting off ahead of the game, compared to most early efforts... BUT, I do strongly agree with Andreas that this is not something worth trying to sell. It can be a superb means of learning (especially by asking for, and learning to properly filter, public critiques) but that's about it.
Maybe I should also mention that I'm in high school and that I do this on the side, for fun. I would, of course, like to go further, but if it's not now then I will continue to learn.
I will continue to work on this.
Looking at it again, there's something that stands out: the lc "m", which is somewhat novel, if naïve. My hunch is you sort of stumbled onto it, but I would take its peculiar bottom-heavy hybridity and run with it for the whole typeface.
On the other hand, going with a straight slab serif design might make it look too much like Clarendon. So it still needs a point of difference somehow, just not so much that it harms the general coherence / rhythm.
I agree with Simon in that I think this is suited for a display use (not body text) so I would optimize it for that. Think about where & how headings are used online, in the physical world, etc. to get some inspiration. But I wouldn't bother about setting paragraphs of text with it.
Keep chipping away at it - as long as you're doing something you love, it can't possibly hurt doing it