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about 10 hours ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a projectAdam, Ed: Thanks guys! Much appreciated.
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about 24 hours ago
Thomas Phinney
Posted project update #8Cristoforo reloaded!
Post CommentCristoforo has been launched again! See the new project! Deadline is June 17, which is 23 days from now.
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about 24 hours ago
Thomas Phinney launched a project
Cristoforo: Victorian Cthulhu fonts revived (again) by Thomas Phinney
Help me save these forgotten fonts from the dustbin of history! These classic Victorian fonts need a proper digital revival.
- $6,400 funding goal
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22days left
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1 day ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateThanks James, I will do something along that line. I expect to hit the launch button within the next 24 hours. I have a talk to do this afternoon, to my daughter's grade 2 class about bookmaking and bookbinding, so I have also been busy prepping for that!
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2 days ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateInteresting suggestion from a non-backer who emailed me about the price points, so I shared the new scheme with him. Dougal Campbell says: The $14 and $24 reward levels for a personal-use license are definitely more enticing! Can you clarify whether that includes usage as a web font? I've seen several projects that add *lots* of different reward levels (in fact, some have too many). But I could definitely see you adding more reward levels based on character sets, font variants, personal/commercial/web licensing. Even as it is right now, I'd definitely commit to a $24 personal-use license. If it were me, I might try something along these lines: $14: as you have it now $24: personal license, regular style font, Windows-1252 character set $29: personal license, regular and italic, Windows-1252 $34: personal license, regular and italic, full character set $39: commercial license, regular only $48: commercial, regular and italic In addition, I don't know if there's something you could do for a price point around the $60 mark. Maybe some postcards with nice artwork, using Cristoforo, and signed by you? Thanks for the reply, and I look forward to hearing more! * * * * * My response was this. Comments welcome! Thanks for the further feedback. On first look that seems like too many price points and options. I want to keep it simple enough that people can pick the best option for them without thinking about it much. I need to make it easy to hit that "pledge" button. That being said, I will still post your suggestion in the discussion thread on the new offer. It has already been approved by Kickstarter now (only took them 24 minutes!) so I can pull the trigger as soon as I am sure about the rewards. As for the postcards, I had postcards in the original offer. I got rid of them this time in an effort to reduce my hassles and costs so as to reduce the amount of work I have to do and the amount of money I need to ask for. The cheaper fonts serve the same role as a low-end offer, presumably a much more attractive one!
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2 days ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateWow, Kickstarter approved the revised project 24 minutes after I submitted it. I am going to wait at least until tomorrow to see if there are any useful comments on the reward levels.
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2 days ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateI will post here when it is live. But in the meantime, I'd love to get feedback in the next day or two....
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2 days ago
Thomas Phinney
Posted project update #7Cristoforo trying again! Feedback on rewards?
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4 days ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateOuch, that's an embarrassing typo. I do in fact know how to spell "more." :)
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4 days ago
Thomas Phinney
commented on a project updateThanks, all! I am certainly inclined towards something along the lines of Michael's suggestion. Indeed, at one point before I launched I had a caps-only font as one of the low-level incentives, but I removed it in an attempt to simplify the rewards. I again started thinking moer along that line part-way through the pledge drive, but I already had tons of reward levels and was loathe to add more at that time. If/when I try again—which seems likely—I will probably go down that path.
Thomas Phinney
Portland, OR
Fonts and typography are what I do. My day job at Extensis is focused on web fonts and font management software. My typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original, comprising 12 fonts with over 3000 glyphs per font. I've also made many other fonts which hav... view more
I often view Kickstarter pages from either my phone or my work computer where I'm unlikely to watch the video. Currently the key product (the new TP reconstruction of the typeface) is just not that visible until you play the video or go into the Updates section. I'd recommend inserting some nice close-ups of letter-forms as early as possible in the "about this project" section. If you can show construction drawings with guidelines, handle curves, etc. turned on, all the better. I think that usually comes across pretty well on the web and emphasizes the fact that it's serious product.
Thanks James, I will do something along that line. I expect to hit the launch button within the next 24 hours. I have a talk to do this afternoon, to my daughter's grade 2 class about bookmaking and bookbinding, so I have also been busy prepping for that!
I like to think that in about six years a whole bunch of middleschool English teachers are going to have someone in their class that can explain what a "quarto" is and why Shakespeare scholars are always nattering on about them.