Create new photofonts

Fontlab is looking for one or more designers to create photofonts to use to promote our font software. Photofonts are an open standard font format for bitmap fonts. Please see [login to view URL] for a complete explanation and specifications. We would like to get about 100 new fonts. We will provide the successful proposal(s) with a copy of our BitFonter ([login to view URL]) font editor which they will use to create the fonts. Each font must contain the following character set (75 characters): ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890!#$%&*-?/:;,. Each font must be created with a height of 120 pixels and contain 120 kerning pairs. ## Deliverables Photofonts can be made in (at least) three ways: cookie cutter method, digital photo method, and hand lettering. You can see examples of all three on the [login to view URL] website and in example files which we will send you. Cookie cutter photofonts (like Goldheader) are the easiest to create. You just take a regular bitmap font and apply colors, textures, transparency and/or distortion to the glyphs. There's a neat tool called Font Twister ([login to view URL]) that can do a lot of this automatically. You create digital photo photofonts by arranging objects in the shape of letters and photographing them and then using the photos to create the glyphs in the font (using Bitfonter). Most of the photofonts on the photofont website are digital photo photofonts as is our Chocolate Cream font. Hand lettering photofonts are the most difficult. As the name implies these fonts are created by hand-drawing each glyph. The Trees font is an example. We are looking for proposals to create any or all of the following photofonts: Cookie cutter type- straight American flag wavy American flag British flag German flag horizontal rainbow pebbles running water translucent white grass mud moss beach ocean sunset/sunrise on ocean forest silver marble granite concrete steel leopard spots tiger stripes zebra stripes Digital Photo fonts- beads buttons leaves feathers letters drawn in dirt bottles colored trees in a forest Hand lettered fonts- flowers neon ornamental initial caps (26 letters only) icicles We are also open to any other ideas which you may have for photofonts. We plan to pay per font. So in your proposal please specify which of the above designs (or ideas of your own) you want to take on and what your charge would be for each one. Then give us a total. As an added bonus we intend to enter all the fonts created into ATypI's 2012 type design competition, in which there will be a section for bitmap fonts. Obviously a background in graphic design is necessary for this job and experience in type design will be very helpful. Timeframe for delivery: This depends entirely on the number and kind of fonts in your proposal. But we would like to have the whole project wrapped up in 3 months.