Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-06 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Jon Phillips wrote: If someone drafts an email, I will join on and make sure it gets to shuttleworth and jono...we should try to engage them constructively. Mark is already well-aware of the various issues surrounding libre/open fonts from previous face to face and email discussions over the

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-06 Thread Schrijver
Thanks Liam I agree I should be more specific. I was planning to look deeper into the usability of open source, do some blogging on the subject, sit up some discourse, for me it is important to bridge the design and the foss community… I think the Open Font Library is a potential platform for

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-06 Thread Schrijver
p.s. sorry if I ramble a bit, I’ll have to learn to stick to one topic per e-mail instead of just copy-pasting my mind Op 6 mrt 2010, om 19:58 heeft Schrijver het volgende geschreven:

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Schrijver
Great! I really do not like the look of the Vera Sans based fonts that are now the default fonts on most Linux distros (if I’m not mistaken). That is no fault of the Deja-vu teams, it is just that the original design on which they are based I think is hugely unattractive :-( It will be

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:31:17PM +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: We are considering an internship program, to support aspiring fontographers from all corners of the world to visit London and work with Dalton Maag to extend the font to their own regional glyph set. is very

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Ven 5 mars 2010 14:41, Schrijver a écrit : It will be published under an open font license, and considered part of the trade dress of Ubuntu, which will limit its relevance for software interfaces outside of Ubuntu but What do they mean by that? Surely, if it is an open licence, any

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Garrick Van Buren
On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:25 AM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: I think it's up to us as a community to think about ways where we can come alongside these established designers commissioned to do open font design to mutually learn and share tools, methodologies and corresponding best practises and as a

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Jon Phillips
If someone drafts an email, I will join on and make sure it gets to shuttleworth and jono...we should try to engage them constructively. Jon Phillips us. +1-510-499-0894 cn. +86-134-3957-2035 http://rejon.org http://fabricatorz.com On Mar 5, 2010 7:32 AM, Garrick Van Buren garr...@kernest.com

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 March 2010 16:32, Garrick Van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote: commissioned-then-openly-licensed fonts will be the primary model for the majority of font development moving forward. Do you mean the majority of ALL font development, or the majority of libre font development?

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 March 2010 20:08, Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org wrote: If someone drafts an email, I will join on and make sure it gets to shuttleworth and jono...we should try to engage them constructively. This weekend I'll think about what to ask :-) While working on the new site!