How to sell your typeface - Creative Bloq article. Brief 8 cancelled
An interesting article I found on Creative Bloq has made me realise that producing a type foundry right now wouldn't be the best use of my time and therefore I'm going to scrap brief 8. The original timetabled proposal was to use some of my final month to get a physical specimen out in collaboration with a craftsman, however, with covid-19 it doesn't look like that's going to be possible and I have taken advice that there could be a few headaches with setting up my own digital foundry, namely around licencing and without interaction with the buyer there could be some issues around licensing that I don't have the financial means to enforce. It's probably better to sit on the idea for now and look into selling fonts through a mediating third party. "You've created your own typeface. Now what? Whether you harbor a secret desire to see designers and creative directors around the world using your fonts, or simply put some recent downtime to go...