>> Vern, can you give a rough estimate about the financial frame? > > Yes i would generally echo what Dave and Eben have said said on > costs; and note these would be minimum costs; > >> 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) > > But it is perhaps more likely that a typeface family like we are > discussing here would be developed from a pre-existing Libre font. > That would most likely bring down the labour costs, or allow a > larger budget to be even better mobilised.
A font which comes near to the old shape as shown in the JPG image I've sent previously is this one: http://www.proportionallime.com/vinestreet.shtml For various reasons it doesn't really fit (it's too wide, and ascenders and descenders are too large), but you get the idea. So does anyone have another suggestion? > To some who manage Free Software projects these sums can seem steep, > but i strongly suggest they are great investments because they are > spent on adding unparalleled value to the software. Libre fonts can > be superb investments for free Software. The more projects like > this that are funded, more and better Free Software can be > developed. So let's hope that this e-mail exchange does initialize something :-) Werner _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
