[OpenFontLibrary] Fonts/Typefaces distinction

2009-05-12 Thread Fontfreedom
>One of the terms was the Fonts/Typefaces distinction. > >Nicolas felt that the current v2 site uses the term "typefaces" too >much (I hope you can explain here why) and I feel that since people >who make new fonts/typefaces talk about themselves as typeface >designers and talk about typefaces,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > I will just say that most people think of is fonts. So good to use right > terms, but also important to consider commaner. Right - the downloaders say fonts, but the uploaders say typefaces, and we can do almost nothing to upset downloaders, while uploaders can be partic

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > Ok all good...just sell on cafepress or something, but wouldn't consider it > a blocker. +1

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
Ok all good...just sell on cafepress or something, but wouldn't consider it a blocker. Jon Phillips +1.415.830.3884 (global) +86.132.6817.8381 (beijing) j...@rejon.org On May 12, 2009 4:41 PM, "Dave Crossland" wrote: 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > Ok, then I'll just import the stuff. :-) > There i

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
I will just say that most people think of is fonts. So good to use right terms, but also important to consider commaner. Jon Phillips +1.415.830.3884 (global) +86.132.6817.8381 (beijing) j...@rejon.org On May 12, 2009 5:27 PM, "Ben Weiner" wrote: Hi Dave Crossland wrote: > > At the LGM2009 Nic

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Ben Weiner
Hi Dave Crossland wrote: At the LGM2009 Nicolas and I had some discussions about the OFLB terminology, and I thought I'd raise these points on the list for wider discussion. One of the terms was the Fonts/Typefaces distinction. Nicolas felt that the current v2 site uses the term "typefaces" to

[OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Free/Open/Libre

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, At the LGM2009 Nicolas and I had some discussions about the OFLB terminology, and I thought I'd raise these points on the list for wider discussion. One of the terms was the Free/Open/Libre distinction. I have been using the term "free fonts" or "free software fonts" in all my work, including

[OpenFontLibrary] Site terminology: Fonts/Typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, At the LGM2009 Nicolas and I had some discussions about the OFLB terminology, and I thought I'd raise these points on the list for wider discussion. One of the terms was the Fonts/Typefaces distinction. Nicolas felt that the current v2 site uses the term "typefaces" too much (I hope you can

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > Ok, then I'll just import the stuff. :-) > There is a script in the bin folder of ccHost which moves ccadmin. Okay cool. > Yes, I'll document the steps on the public wiki like I did on ocal: > http://openclipart.org/wiki/Website_Development Great! > If you want to h

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
If you want to help me, please recreate some of those files on OFLB wiki now and start updating the roadmap on the wiki, and prepping outline of the press release about this. Then, what else has to be done before public launch? A fire should be lit under that stuff too so that this launch can happ

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
Ok, then I'll just import the stuff. There is a script in the bin folder of ccHost which moves ccadmin. Yes, I'll document the steps on the public wiki like I did on ocal: http://openclipart.org/wiki/Website_Development I'll do it when I do the re-update. But really, need others to try and do th

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: >> 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : >>> Heya guys, with victor's help and some tweaking, got OFLB up on the >>> test site to a good state. I'm not seeing any errors, >> >> I'm not seeing any documentation :-( >> >> Without d

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Dave Crossland wrote: > 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : >> Heya guys, with victor's help and some tweaking, got OFLB up on the >> test site to a good state. I'm not seeing any errors, > > I'm not seeing any documentation :-( > > Without documentation we can't welcome cont

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips : > Heya guys, with victor's help and some tweaking, got OFLB up on the > test site to a good state. I'm not seeing any errors, I'm not seeing any documentation :-( Without documentation we can't welcome contributors. I'll look at it now and won't change anything and try t

[OpenFontLibrary] http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
Heya guys, with victor's help and some tweaking, got OFLB up on the test site to a good state. I'm not seeing any errors, but I really need you guys to look at and see if all is well: http://testvm.openfontlibrary.org/ If all is well, then I will take the main site offline, backup the DB, and the

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
Does anyone know Stani's email?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] versioning

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/11 Emma Jane Hogbin : > > Do you need an entire alphabet, or can an apprentice create a font from > a sketch of the letters, a, q, g t and e? At the Reading school we work on the lowercase word "adhesion" for months until expanding it out to a full lowercase, then add caps, then add diacrit

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] versioning

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/11 Schrijver : >>> >>> I had thought of scripting Fontforge but it seemed a bit heavyweight for >>> hosted solutions, >> >> Um, really? Where is the weight? > > It is a compiled C binary, no, with dependencies and everything? FontForge is famous for having optional, and even at that, very f

[OpenFontLibrary] New work on fonts at W3C

2009-05-12 Thread Chris Lilley
Hello openfontlibrary, Introduction W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for feedback on a draft charter [0] for a future W3C Font working group or interest group. Please send feedback on the charter t

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

2009-05-12 Thread Pierre Marchand
Vous avez écrit : > Stani Michiels of SPE and Phatch fame came up with a POC python script > to create a obfuscated visual fingerprint of a font with its own shapes > to allow comparison and matching. Hi, I would be interested to have the script if possible and compare it to the system used in Fo