[OpenFontLibrary] src:local

2009-06-23 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
and its a discussion with Aaron Spaulding about his Javascript work on the http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files/ listing Quick comment (I still need to listen to the recording): Isn't it src: local (Foo) instead of src: local (Foo.ttf) ? We should drop the extension in the snippets.

[OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Joshua A.C. Newman
Helvetica Neue, easily the most useful font in the OpenFont site, is a 0k file. I'd like very much to use it for an OSS project, but, well, 0k. Any recommendations? -Joshua Joshua Newman Design 401.225.7222

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Joshua A.C. Newman
Crud. It looks like it's time for a redraw. There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. Surely we can harness the power of open source to generate some good body type? Maybe we can start with some model characters (oOxXlwWbBAH) and go from there? ... or is this one of

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Karl Berry
There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. http://www.geocities.com/hartke01/ is the best attempt I know of at compiling a list of free/libre text fonts. I don't know of anything closer to Helvetica Neue in the free world closer than the various URW-Helvetica-Nimbus Sans

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/23 Karl Berry k...@freefriends.org:     Sadly that file is not a libre font, so I zilched it. It seems like it would less confusing to delete it completely than to leave behind a useless zero-length file. Done!

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman jos...@joshuanewmandesign.com: Crud. It looks like it's time for a redraw. I'd rather that you looked at Bodoni and made your own, original, low contrast sans serif based on its skeletal forms, but you do whatever you think is more fun :-) There is a remarkable

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Joshua A.C. Newman
Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event, I'm pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni. I'll see what I can do, and maybe we'll make a thing! -Joshua On Jun 23, 2009, at

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:34 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote: Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event, I'm pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni. Watch out that although

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/23 Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net: the US does have copyright treaties these days, so if a design is copyright in Germany or France or the UK (say), that copyright is to be respected in the US... although it might be hard to enforce because of past cases) This isn't true according to

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Hevetice Neue on the OpenFont site

2009-06-23 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman jos...@joshuanewmandesign.com: Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. You can use my student project (currently in development) if you like :-)

[OpenFontLibrary] Copyrights / Typefaces

2009-06-23 Thread Fontfreedom
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 18:34 -0400, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote: Well, I need something both low-contrast and modern for this project. I might even start with DIN or Futura. Not sure yet. In any event, I'm pretty sure I don't have the subtlety of eye to deal with Bodoni. Watch out that

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Copyrights / Typefaces

2009-06-23 Thread Christopher Fynn
No, the copyright treaties the United States has entered into specify that something copyrighted in a foreign country is not subject to copyright in the U.S. *unless* it would have been subject to copyright if it were made in the U.S. Typefaces are not subject to copyright in the U.S., no