[interview] Questions for Font Designers

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• What is your current process while designing a font?

  • Do you often make drafts with pen and paper or digitally?
  • Where do you start?

• Which tools do you use?

  • How many different ones?
  • Which tool do you use for which step?
  • Do they interact (properly)?

• Do you always work alone on fonts?

  • Would you like to work in a group?
  • Do you see any problems with working in a group?
  • What would those problems be?
  • What benefits do you see in working as a group?

• Is there anything that bothers you about your current process?

• Do you remember when you started designing fonts?

  • Was it easy to start?
  • Would a tutorial be helpful in your opinion?
  • What should be included in such a tutorial?

• What type of fonts do you design? (latin, greek, chinese...)

  • Are there differences in the process for different scripts?

• What do you think of our process idea?

New questions:

• Do you write down which languages you want to support with a font anywhere
• Would you like some kind of feedback how close you are to being done?
• Do reviewers (especially font experts) only look at large test-documents with example texts (or similar) or also at single glyphs/ligatures etc.?