Q. Is it enjoyable to have to create multiple weight variations and italics for each font that you create?

“This is the work. Is all of it equally enjoyable? No, but it is what trains skills and shapes us as people who make this particular class of thing. I grew up around artists, and I came to realise — although I only found the words for it recently — that the art, in the sense of a product — a painting, or a sculpture — was only part of what they were making, and not always the important part. They were making themselves as makers, which is what is often lost when expediencies, conveniences, or short cuts are employed. …