Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font subsets

2009-07-03 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
James Weiner wrote: Hi people, I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for where I can get hold of a suggestion for a 'minimum useful' character set? I am optimising some typefaces for @font-face use (they are currently ~350Kb) and I would prefer them to way in around 50-75Kb at most,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 is out!

2009-07-03 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Dave Crossland wrote: 2009/7/1 ricardo lafuente boll...@sollec.org: would it be too difficult/impractical to have this run on a font submitted to the OFLB and generate the .eot on demand? That's the plan; actually, the ideal plan would be to have a mod_eot Apache module so that when it saw

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Firefox 3.5 is out!

2009-07-03 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/7/3 Nicolas Spalinger nicolas_spalin...@sil.org: Dave Crossland wrote: 2009/7/1 ricardo lafuente boll...@sollec.org: would it be too difficult/impractical to have this run on a font submitted to the OFLB and generate the .eot on demand? That's the plan; actually, the ideal plan would be

[OpenFontLibrary] New Fontmatrix for the summer

2009-07-03 Thread Pierre Marchand
Hi, Let me announce a new public release of Fontmatrix which expose to regular users what I presented from Trunk at LGM in may. I really hope you’ll find something useful to use it. New public release We’re

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Font subsets

2009-07-03 Thread James Weiner
Thanks for your help both Nicolas's! James On 3 Jul 2009, at 09:04, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: James Weiner wrote: Hi people, I was wondering if anyone had a suggestion for where I can get hold of a suggestion for a 'minimum useful' character set? I am optimising some typefaces for

[OpenFontLibrary] Using genetic algorithms to create fonts

2009-07-03 Thread Aaron Spaulding
About a month ago I was thinking about what happen if fonts would be able to adapt to the reader? If each person had a font would they differ wildly? or would they be similar? I started working on a basic implementation of an adaptive font, it uses a genetic algorithm, to select the best letters