I've read a few comments here in the past talking about the model of offering a minimum viable product first, and gradually building the font from there. As I've spent over a year working on my last project (as it had over a thousand glyphs per style in the end), the model of investing time as a "lump sum" - taking a long singular period to complete a project, only after which you can even test if the end product is profitable - doesn't seem completely justified for each project.
As most users would be fully satisfied with a basic character set, from which the design can be expanded later on, the concept of "early adopters" does sound feasible in type as well.
Have any of you tried out releasing through
FutureFonts or a similar service? What was the process like, and would you recommend it?
Thanks,
Val
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There is no similar service that I am aware of.
BTW Paratype recently started something similar...
Speaking only for my own fonts and customer base, I'd never dare release something without broad language support. We just have too many users in various corners of Europe. I'd be more inclined to release fewer styles, or upright only, if I was trying to test the market before completing a font. Maybe I could get away without including alternates if my own foundry didn't have such a reputation for it. Users barely touch them but it's something that attracts the critics.
Almost all of what I said in my reply was very clearly from my own perspective, with no effort to suggest others have the same experience. I was simply saying to do some research into a definition based on the fact my experience suggests that it might not be universal. I did the opposite of assert a fact.
If I were new to this forum and I had gotten a disagree, given how that button works here, to such a post I'd never come back. I want us to be welcoming. Instead the annonomus nature of the disagree button conveys that disagreement is a policing mechanism intended to shame people who spread fake information.
I'm sorry @ValKalinic for hijacking your thread.
I'm genuinely asking, I'd imagine the eastern market has their own stores focused on Cyrillic of course. It's something I've been thinking about recently - whether I should learn more about it, add it to my fonts, and enter them into non-English-centered marketplaces too.
@JoyceKetterer
no problem at all, and thanks for your help.
The only problem with the "negative" buttons is that they hide who hit them; to me that almost prevents me from using them. Almost.
I believe hiding disagreement (like social media only having Like) is already too much society-eroding feelgoodism, nevermind pampering people who can't handle disagreement. BTW most people who would run away due to the Disagree button certainly can't handle disagreement when it's spelled out.
Be happy you're not me, you would've gotten a bunch of Abuse flags! But I'm still not leaving. I have a job to do (and the same goes for all of us).
I'm not against including historical characters in typefaces. The customers I'm catering to are designers who need display typefaces which support multiple languages for localizing ad campaigns, apps, websites etc.
As it is, I have yet to figure its purpose.
https://typedrawers.com/discussion/3219/disagree/p1
Unfortunately.
It's curious BTW that virtually nobody bangs their fists on the table and demands that people marking Agree write a comment explaining what it is they agree with...
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I believe they're looking for truly unique and somewhat "out there" kind of designs. I would reach out to those designers on the platform and ask about their personal experience selling there. From my perspective, it seems very viable for almost everyone on there.