I want to be a freelance designer in the future. I want to offer the client as much as possibilities as possible. So I was thinking, would it be worth it to learn to make fonts?

Does someone who is a freelancer ever get the request to create a font?
I've never heard of that...

My teacher says you can get very rich when you are a font maker. But he only told me that and dídn't teach me it, lol!

I don't have any answers to that, nancy but I was wondering how the money is made by font makers.

Do they typically sell their font sets for a lot of money to software makers for use in word processors and programs like that?

I'm just curious.

They sell them to companies who want to have a font all their own. For use, for example, in their company letterheads and logo.

To expand on Flutes answer, large-scale licensing is a big part of font companies survival. If you get your typeface included in a large-scale software program (sayyy.. Windows) then you're going to reap big rewards.

One-by-one sales of fonts is a difficult, although also very big, business. The industry is definitely top-heavy as sites like fonts.com dominate the sales.. they also have large affiliate programs which suck in buyers from smaller internet locations.

It is possible to grab the money, if you are good in designing. I have heard to some success stories like that from the various sources. Try to make the best of yours and reach the IT companies for their company titles and Logos, some what nicely described in brief by Flutes.

I'd think making fonts would be very tedious, so yeah, it prob does pay well!

I don't know it depends on what type of fonts they specialize in . I don't think all pay well but there is a possibility that they do.