[OpenFontLibrary] How much does a new typeface cost?

[Jan Claeys]

Op zaterdag 06-03-2010 om 04:04 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Dave
Crossland:
> On http://typophile.com/node/68060 John Hudson writes,
> 
> "Aaron: Latin-9, 192 Glyph, Regular weight Sans-serif typeface. $7,680
> for design. $5,760 for TrueType hinting. $480 per diem for other work
> (e.g. OpenType Layout, mastering and testing)."
> 
> I remember making a similar thread on TP last year with, sadly, less
> specific replies, so I am very impressed that he published this.
> 
> $14,000 all in ain't bad, and it sets a realistic figure on how much
> revenue a business model has to generate to initiate each free font
> family project I think.

I remember asking Erik van Blokland on this list last year.
His answer is in the archives:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-April/001997.html
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/openfontlibrary/2009-April/002002.html


-- 
Jan Claeys