so this is a pretty general question, but about how long does it take you to work up a typeface from start to finish? by that i mean just a lowercase and uppercase from sketches to working font (or however you may start and whatever you may call a working font/end product)
will
It depends on bunches and bunches of things.
It might take a couple of days to hack out a cheesy display face, or it might take many hundreds of hours to craft a good text face. The slowest I've gone averages out to one glyph a day.
Typically though, for a person with decent talent and skill, it might take two solid weeks to produce a basic character set that's minimally good. For a novice, maybe 2-3 times longer? I'm just guessing though.
hhp
thanks hrant,
i'm on the verge of starting some typefaces i've been playing around with for quite some time. i've got a lot of motivation and ambition right now, but those 2 things usually hit the wall of reality at some point and never really setting out and doing it the right way from step 1, i'm just curious and interested as to what i can expect my pace to be. my guess will be slow. very slow.
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