u/Sys_Rex

About 1,5 year ago I posted here asking if I should upgrade my old font that I made 20 years ago as a hobby project.

Many people encouraged me to do it, so I started fixing a few things. Then a few fixes became a much bigger project.

I spent many evenings in the second half of 2025 redrawing glyphs, improving kerning and metrics, adding more characters and generally trying to make the font the way I always wanted it to be.

Finally I released a Pro version. I submitted it to several marketplaces and only one accepted it.

A few months have passed and there were no sales. To be fair, I did absolutely no advertising or promotion. I'm much better at making fonts than selling them.

Today I received a small PayPal donation for the old free version, and it reminded me of this whole journey. So I thought I would share the result here.

There is still a long list of things I'd like to add. But I also learned that making a font family takes a lot of time, so I'd rather know that someone actually wants it before spending another half year on it.

For those of you who sell fonts: how do you promote them? Do you use social media, marketplaces, newsletters... or do you just release them and hope people find them?

And of course, any feedback on the upgrade is very welcome.

Original post from last year: https://www.reddit.com/r/fonts/comments/1i4edic/should_i_upgrade_my_old_font/