[hipsterelitist]

4 years and over 200k dollars seems like quite a bit. I understand being meticulous, but this is a bit absurd.

[ajross]

The amount isn't too far off I don't think. I'm no font designer, but four man years (including overhead, etc...) isn't insane, nor is that figure off for expected salary.

That said, I'm very mixed on this kind of "ransomware" development. If you want to share, share. If you don't, don't. But front-loading the costs of your proprietary software product on people who actually want free software is borderline unethical, IMHO. Obviously people are free to pay if they want to, but if you really want to support free development there are better targets.

[trin_]

he actually elaborated on that and said that after fees and taxes it would be $96000 and that it would last him for about 800 days to design every charackter.

[antidaily]

4 years as a side project would be my guess.

[shin_lao]

That's less than $ 25,000 / year, or around $ 120 / day. I don't think you can find a decent designer for $ 120 / day.

[gk1]

Nor would he _want_ to hire anyone to design a monospaced font for four years.

[moe]

Nor is it very likely that he worked four years, every single day, on this font.

[peteforde]

If you're genuinely interested, I'd suggest you check out the movie Helvetica.

Fonts often take thousands of man-hours to complete, and faces with extended characters are much more involved.

What this designer might lack in business chops he makes up in generousity. How many competent designers are willing to do something for $25k a year?