Running Bastardica as a service, Image Editing

Bastardica Agency Implementation, Custom Font Services

Learn how to build a productized custom font service by mastering Bastardica's glyph-level mixing, stride controls, and transformation effects. This course teaches agencies to deliver hybrid typefaces as standalone products or brand assets, with workflows for client approval, preset management, and multi-format export.

Open the decision record for Bastardica

What does running Bastardica for clients commit you to?

Published figures for this service. Blank fields are not published.

Monthly tool cost
Not published
Time to first value
Not published
Payback
Not modeled
Guided implementation
8 hours

Is Bastardica worth running as a client service?

Bastardica is an open-source, local-first font mixing utility that fits as a production tool inside a typography-driven service; the evidence supports fast experimentation and standard OpenType output, but no vendor pricing, client price, labor rate, or volume data exists to model ROI.

An agency-fit judgement for reselling this service. It is separate from the tool description on the decision record.

Before you start

What has to be in place before the first client engagement.

Tools and subscriptions

  • Bastardica browser tool (open-source, local processing via Pyodide and fontTools)
  • Base and mix-in font files, including any client-uploaded fonts
  • A font editor or design tool that can open TTF, OTF, and WOFF2 files for QA
  • A preview document or web page to test exported fonts in real text

People and inputs

  • Documentation of Bastardica's stride, scale, offset, and skew controls
  • Reference to built-in presets such as Sneaky Bastard and Royal Ransom Note
  • An internal checklist for validating OpenType liga contextual substitution in exported fonts

Estimated investment: Open-source software license: $0 (no published pricing tiers). Your investment is internal setup and production time, which your agency must model.

Included with the course

6 working documents for delivering this service.

  • Custom Font Project Intake Checklistchecklist
  • Stride Configuration and Glyph Mapping Guideguide
  • Hybrid Font Delivery SOPsop
  • Font Mixing Preset Library Templatetemplate
  • Client Approval Workflow Worksheetworksheet
  • Export Format Decision Matrixworksheet

Listed by name. These documents are not yet published as individual downloads.