Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Weiner
Hi Nathan, On 24 Jun 2010, at 22:21, Nathan Willis wrote: I mentioned this to a couple of you individually at LGM this year, but for everyone else, I decided I want to work on a revival -- in large part to get better with the font toolchain but without having to start entirely from

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Gustavo Ferreira's UnB Pro is good.

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Ben Weiner
On 25 Jun 2010, at 09:22, Barry Schwartz wrote: Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com skribis: Speaking of preferences, there seems to be a demand for an open source Jenson. Hands off! That's what I've been working on. :) The race is on, then. You appear to be ahead...

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org skribis: Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com skribis: Speaking of preferences, there seems to be a demand for an open source Jenson. Hands off! That's what I've been working on. :) D'oh! It's 3:30 in the morning, obviously. I

[OpenFontLibrary] How to fix the site

2010-06-25 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! Okay, does anyone know PHP and would like to help fix the site's fragile nature...? :-) We have a SVN repository, at https://svn.openfontlibrary.org/public/openfontlibrary/ and this file has some documentation (although it becomes less well organised as it goes on)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

2010-06-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 June 2010 04:16, Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote: My opinion is based on PostScript hinting; for TrueType I am dependent on ff's autoinstructor (which benefits from good PostScript hinting). So yes I was wondering about PostScript—are any open source fonts being distributed as

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Barry Schwartz
Nathan Willis nwil...@glyphography.com skribis: Ronaldson I wouldn't do that one, because Canada Type came out with theirs just a couple of years ago and they are very nice. IMO we could use a good Caslon. I'm working on a Kis/Janson, which is similar, but often do not finish my work, and

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] hinting workflow

2010-06-25 Thread Denis Jacquerye
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote: My opinion is based on PostScript hinting; for TrueType I am dependent on ff's autoinstructor (which benefits from good PostScript hinting). So yes I was wondering about PostScript—are any open source fonts being

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Nathan Willis
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: I wonder why you choose to work on a revival instead of an original design in a specific genre, though? That seems more fun to me, personally :-) Oh, you know, partly general

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Revival of the fittest

2010-06-25 Thread Peter Baker
I love the old humanist serif typefaces: if I had time to launch a new font project, I'd be looking at the Griffo/Manutius types. But ultimately the only thing that gets you through a project as big as a typeface project is making a thing you want to use yourself. Someone asked about Junicode: