That's kind of general question, what kind of  font?
strike, TrueType, PostScript type 1?
A start from scratch font or pretty much a straight ripoff of an existing font?

>can someone tell me the time to design a new font?
>
>Stef
>
>On 20 févr. 04, at 06:39, Doug Way wrote:
>
>>
>>On Thursday, February 19, 2004, at 08:48 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>
>>>The punctuation characters in the default font are *really* off - just look
>>>at ":=" and watch how bad the weight, the spacing, and the match of the
>>>characters are. Really, the default font is unusable for programming (I
>>>actually spent a couple of minutes trying to find an extra single-quote
>>>which crept in before I wanted to get the NY font back). If anything let's
>>>at least have a code font that's usable for programming!
>>
>>I agree that the weight/spacing problems in the punctuation 
>>characters are pretty severe.
>>
>>But this shouldn't be *too* hard to fix with some tweaking, as 
>>Duane suggested.  If we could at least fix the Accuny font (the 
>>default code font), I think we'd be okay for 3.7.
>>
>>If anyone's interested in helping with this, try using Boris 
>>Gaertner's MorphicFontEditor package to edit & save the fonts: 
>>http://www.bgaertner.gmxhome.de/MorphicFontEditor.1.cs.gz
>>
>>Hmm, although one additional problem which should be fixed is that 
>>Accuny-9 and Accuny-10 both have the same "size" (of 9 I think), 
>>which causes problems for the font editor.  (And this also makes 
>>the line spacing the same for both fonts, which seems wrong 
>>anyway... the larger font should take up more vertical space.)
>>
>>>>Now, there were also the Comic bitmap fonts which were removed, which
>>>>did not really have a close equivalent in the Accufonts... you may be
>>>>referring more to these. (The replacement used for these was Accujen,
>>>>which is at least sans-serif.)
>>>
>>>Whoever decided to use that replacement most certainly never used eToys
>>>(which is the only place where it was consistently used). Well, somehow it
>>>figures...
>>
>>Yeah, I'm not sure what to do about that.  It's sort of tempting to 
>>just add the Comic font back in, since it doesn't really cause any 
>>problems related to Squeak-L.  Just a matter of whether we want 
>>non-free-but-maybe-still-legal fonts in the release.
>>
>>- Doug


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