What adds value to a font?

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  • Rob Barba
    Rob Barba Posts: 86
    Chris Lozos said:
    Cheap and good are not the same.  Remember back when Jos released free fonts? A person starting out does not have the luxury of a seasoned successful designer with corporate backing.
    I am going to wholeheartedly back this.  One of my best-selling fonts, ironically was given out for free personal/paid commercial; eventually everyone started buying it.  Contrarily, I've seen some gorgeous free fonts and some cheap fonts I wouldn't even bother paying the "pay what you like fee", because they're trash.  Your mileage will obviously vary on this, but price shouldn't be by any means your only barometer on what a good font is.
  • Rob Barba
    Rob Barba Posts: 86
    Nick Shinn said:
    It’s probably a good idea to wait to see whether a typeface is popular in Latin, before adding Cyrillic and/or Greek.

    Funny you mention that; I specifically got a commission to modify one of my fonts to add Cyrillic and Greek because the client loved the Latin set. So count me in agreement on this.
  • Nick Curtis
    Nick Curtis Posts: 118
    Thanks to all for your input—it has turned out to be a real wake-up call. Henceforth, you can call me Don Quixote.






  • Andreas Stötzner
    Andreas Stötzner Posts: 822
    What adds value to a font?
    • A ß which is not biased by a ſ-s concept.
    • A decent selection of monetary signs.
    • glyphs of a, e, s which appear being not too small.

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