On Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:03:31 -0500
Scot Wilcoxon <scot@wilcoxon.org> wrote:
> > - given the $10 per glyph a whole font wouldn't be THAT expensive...
> > we would need less than 256 glyphs per font which makes << $2k5.
> > Given the enomous benefit this sounds reasonable. In all we would
> > need about four basic fonts which makes roughly $10k.
Jim just made clear that I have missed a magnitude, i.e. around $100k
would be needed...
> Start up a donation fund -- make sure you first know who to hire that
> can do the work for the desired price. Also state where excess money
> will go.
>
> "The letters S and W are brought to you by Scot Wilcoxon..."
And do this for all donators? Huh ... that will become a long list :))
BTW: I have just auto-hinted the free TTF fonts I previously uploaded to
unstable using pfaedit and saved them as OpenType fonts since pfaedit
cannot export hints into TrueType... they now look a little better when
scaled down but have become a little larger in filesystem size. I will
upload a new package soon.
I also plan to contact Chuck Bigelow for his permission to work on the
Lucidux fonts, i.e. at least to auto-hint them... let's see. Hopefully
Jim succeeds with his other deal!
CU
nils faerber
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