One of the things to be clear about for yourself and the designer you work with is what the medium you want it to work in will be.
For example is this mainly a font for printing on paper? Is it for the web too? Do you want it to work well in fine printing? Do you only care about laser printing? Maybe you want web and fine print. If this is the case you probably want to look at having two related fonts made. Oddly enough if you have two designs they can be made to appear far more similar than if you have only one. What glyphs do you really need? If the glyph set is smaller then the designer can remain more focused. It may not be obvious what glyphs will be most helpful. Do you want the font to be relate well to an existing font for setting music? It would also be important to give the designer examples of how you want to be able to use the type so that they can test it in those contexts and be sure it works well for you. I would suggest raising the figure Dave mentions to $9,000 for one style so that the designer can afford to test the design extensively and can refine the design. If you do that you will be able to have something of enduring value made for you. -e. On Jan 9, 2013, at 12:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: > The price depends on the details of the project; mainly the number of > family styles, the character set, and the delivery schedule. Designing > a single style latin-1 font in 2 weeks is relatively expensive ($3,000 > minimum) versus a 10 style family with latin 1-2-3-4 in 2 months > ($10,000 min) _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
