font designs on fiverr is it going to be worth my time and my money
i hired two different freelancers the task of designing me a custom typeface with a regular and
a bold version making up the font family things were more tricky than i first expected even though
i had a brief and supplied inspirational imagery more about that soon pretty much every freelancer
i contacted asked me for similar fonts as a kind of a guide now this didn't sit well with me and
so i tried to expand on the brief and also the direction i had in mind speaking of which do
you think my brief is overly difficult to follow in the brief i stated the name of the typeface
and the meaning behind that name i explained that i needed a sans-serif solution with a regular
and also a bold version it was clearly stated that i did not want japanese classical calligraphy
even though one freelancer actually sent me some calligraphy as a kind of a preview
but the remainder of the brief talked about a neo-japanese style and even referenced
the failure of a game cyberpunk 2077 along with this i also attached three images that depicted
the sort of atmosphere and feeling that i wanted my typeface to end up looking like but yeah all
in all i did think this brief was well explained and i remained hopeful for the final results for
this video i stayed on fiverr but i am curious to know what the results would be on a platform like
upwork maybe that's a future video but anyway on fiverr i hired two different freelancers one of
them quoted me a hundred and ten dollars and the other quoted me fifty dollars to me personally
this is quite a low quotation considering the work involved in creating a dual font
typeface but as with any industry sector there are tiers of quality and also tiers of working rates
it also depends on where somebody lives and how much the dollar converts to their native currency
but would the results end up being value for money well let's take a look firstly we're going
to examine the 50 typeface design looking at the font file preview of my desktop right off the bat
i'm filled with a slight sense of apprehension the baseline is pretty wonky and things don't
look consistent but let's take a closer look and see how closely this designer followed my brief
so yeah it seems my worries are justified because we can clearly see the lowercase
p and also q are lower down from the baseline and also the x height isn't consistent along the fonts
the typeface was sent to me in two different fonts bold and regular but there are some issues
selecting either of those in the font window in illustrator the designer has made sure to
add numerical characters and also symbols as well there are other issues such as the inner section
of the lowercase e almost being non-existent on the bold version due to its thickness
the regular version of this first typeface seems to have far less issues than the thicker version
and i suspect the designer probably rushed this second bold version but does it conform
to my neo-japanese style as depicted in the brief could this typeface match well with the cyberpunk
style design well the uppercase letters do have some promise for this kind of design
but the lowercase letters and also the numbers fall short of the brief in my opinion we should
keep in mind that this was quoted at 50 so we're not going to exactly expect too much
but yeah let's move on to the 110 dollar projects and see if more aspects of my brief have been met
so this designer has made a cleaner job and i can see this right away by looking at how
uniformly consistent the letter characters are that is except for the zed or the z this seems
to be thicker than the other characters for some odd reason also the lowercase w
on the bold version looks a tiny bit sketchy as well but yeah i'm pretty pleased with how this
tight face has ended up i particularly love the numerical characters because i do feel they fit
well into my brief of a kind of neo-japanese style design and i can envision them being used
on a cyberpunk artwork kind of project but saying that the entire typeface has a style that is quite
fitting to my brief to be honest and of course the designer has adhered to other aspects of the brief
you know the symbols characters numbers and so on but would i use these fonts on my work what
i think was some tinkering and some changes the second typeface could be useful in some instances
but as they are now i probably don't think so i did use one round of revisions on the second
project but i wanted to see what these designers would deliver originally and right off the bat
so that's the kind of fonts you can get for that kind of money on fiverr
i am thinking of spending more money on somewhere like upwork to see if i can get that
really great satori neo style fonts but if you want to learn more about fonts or graphic design
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