[Openfontlibrary] Quick Freelance Font Development Paid Job

[Jon Phillips]

Did this get sorted out?

Jon

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 03:11 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I rent a room in Ben's house in Reading and go the down-lo on this,
> and there is a small budget for paying someone who can do this.
> 
> The 70 or so outlines are in EPS and need cleaning up so they don't do
> anything strange when printed at very large (meter plus) sizes - and
> FontForge's clean up tool or Raph's python tool ought to help! Then
> importing these as glyphs in FontForge, and do some spacing.
> 
> All straighforward stuff. The option of publishing the resulting file
> on the Open Font Library is available, subject to negotiation with the
> client.
> 
> Ben originally mailed this to the ATypI mailing list and they mostly
> turned their nose up at it for some reason I can't fathom.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ben Weiner <ben at readingtype.org.uk>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been asked to find someone who can put together a typeface made
> from existing Illustrator vector artwork. It's 'hand-drawn':
> basically very rough letters done with a mouse directly into
> Illustrator. I can't vouch for the quality of those outlines. There
> are only uppercase Roman characters; I doubt any accents. There will
> be alternate forms of characters (I guess in the lower-case character
> positions).
> 
> I'd do it myself if I had the time. Is there anyone on this list who
> is interested? The rights in the typeface thus created will belong to
> the commissioning organisation. The deadline is the end of the week.
> Deafening silence anticipated...
> 
> Best wishes,
> Ben
> 
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