How fast can you make a font?

[Ryan Maelhorn]

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How fast can you make a font from scratch?

I think it is a fascinating question, with some merit, though of course, if we expected everyone to work as fast as possible, we would have a lot of mediocre typefaces. So that's it then, how fast can you create a mediocre font? From scratch mind..

[fredcastle]

Typeface or font?

[Ryan Maelhorn]

I mean a basic latin set of glyphs (caps, lowercase, numerals, and basic punctuation) made for use on a computer.

[Riccardo Sartori]

3 hours and 4 minutes:
https://typography.guru/forums/topic/86438-forwarding

[Bendy]

Depends on what the specifications are. Following an established set of design parameters (e.g. a revival), or beginning with defining a brief from scratch are not really the same thing.

[Luma Vine]

'within a few minutes'? http://www.yourfonts.com/

[hrant]

What writing system? Morse code: 5 minutes.

hhp

[5star]

Years.

[Nick Cooke]

Why would you want to?

[hrant]

Why? Because Morse Code is the second-best writing system ever, after Uniglyph.

hhp

[oldnick]

“Best” may be a bit of a stretch; “most compact” I would buy...

[hrant]

I was five days too late with that post, sorry. But the page I linked to was properly timed.

hhp

[dtw]

Don't forget there was this: http://typophile.com/battle12