> Hi, > > I wrote this small introduction to Free Fonts, comments please :-) > > - - - 8< - - - > > The Master Plan for free fonts? Licensing, Community, Tools, Know-How.
Great summary of the key aspects :) Although I'd recommend we use the term open fonts or libre fonts. It's the Open Font Library after all. "Free fonts" already has a problematic connotation of freeware fonts (as in no modification and unknown origin) we need to avoid. > Licensing? The Open Font License is a free license written > specifically for the needs of fonts and type designers. I'd suggest adding metadata integration for license and author information. > Community? The Open Font Library has adopted the Open Font License as > its only license and is now creating a quality collection of OFL > fonts, albeit slowly. The aim is to set up a simple "join the club" > switching dynamic for free and freeware font developers. s/free and freeware/open and libre/ I'd suggest adding mailing-lists, IRC, forums, blog aggregators, conferences, IRL meet-ups. The whole peer review thing. And also sites which don't host the fonts but provide a catalog like unifont.org/fontguide. > Tools? FontForge, XGridFit, Spiro. These can technically make production > quality fonts, but premier type designers don't use them. Yet. I'd suggest adding Inkscape, the various fontforge scripts out there, Font:TTF (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Font-TTF/), hinting-viewer, gnome-specimen, fonty-python, all the various open (and also restricted) formats supported by the toolchain, (distributed) revision control to host work on these formats, web-APIs (I'm thinking fontforge/inkscape connecting to ccHost for example) and the work on packaging open fonts and the open font designer toolkit. > Know-how? In the free world, it is lacking, but Wikipedia lights the way. We need free-form wiki but also validated articles, tutorials, books, links to specs. HTH. Btw, will some of you be at to the Debconf? We will talk about open fonts there: https://debconf7.debconf.org/wiki/Main_Page -- Nicolas Spalinger http://scripts.sil.org http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-fonts/ https://launchpad.net/~fonts
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