The time devoted to a font will be the time necessary. It means:

• I will supply intermediate versions useful for tuning critical shapes during the design phase if necessary;
• I will propose different possible fitting solutions developed after suitable feedback until satisfaction;
• to speed up the input operations and reduce the risk of errors iKern uses a series of automatisms processing data. I’m talking about automatic class generation and recognition of specific properties for which iKern uses the Unicode database. So the fonts submitted have to have Unicode compliance and a standard and coherent naming system possibly using the Adobe naming convention and extensions. So, for example, a ffb ligature should be called f_f_b and a small cap a should be called a.smcp. The font can be in any format handled by Fontlab but .vfb is preferable. If features are present they have to be correct (compilable).

There is no fixed price for the service. I keep for myself the freedom of choice case by case, depending on complexity and destination. For retail fonts I usually ask the equivalent of few hours of work. Being the evenctual payment only due after complete satisfaction. For years I offered the service for free and I would be glad to continue for worth typefaces. In any case just ask.