Fastest was Turpentine; as that took me a couple of days to do.
Longest is currently Heiankyo, which I've been working on close to a decade now.
Average is about three months for a straight Latin and Latin-extended font.
A special shout-out goes to Ferrocarbon, which took me about a month to do in 2013...and then I completely forgot to release it until earlier this past year.
Rob, how many masters is that, in Roman and italic?
Far more than I'd like. And, probably, ironically, less than I should, as to date I've never done a true italic; just oblique italics. One of these days I really want to give a shot at doing a true italic.
Sometimes I get a bit conflicted about how much 'cut & paste' vs. 'handcrafted letterforms' there should be in the design process, but I suppose it depends on how organic the design concept is, and whether the forms derived from 'cut & paste' are corrected for their particular end use.
Back when day job downsized me and font-making became my sole source of income, I found I was most productive when I had a lot of projects going on at once.
I would work on one font until it became tedious and then mover on to another and another and another. My averaged output was one font a day until my arthritis and carpal tunnel syndrome and cataracts shout me down…
With 182 “jobs in progress” in various states of done-ness.
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Far more than I'd like. And, probably, ironically, less than I should, as to date I've never done a true italic; just oblique italics. One of these days I really want to give a shot at doing a true italic.