What adds value to a font?
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I’d like to hear @Ray Larabie’s opinion on language/script expansions. He’s added Vietnamese, Cyrillic, and Greek to lots of his fonts.Those additions have had no notable effect on my sales. I think there's probably a long term advantage to supporting more languages in common designs, like DIN, typewriter, highway signage, Clarendon, Bodoni, etc. In those cases, the customer might be weighing price vs. features when deciding which one to go for. But I'm guessing.
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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.
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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.
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Thanks to all for your input—it has turned out to be a real wake-up call. Henceforth, you can call me Don Quixote.
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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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