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

[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

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] versioning

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/11 Schrijver e...@authoritism.net: 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,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] versioning

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/11 Emma Jane Hogbin e...@hicktech.com: 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,

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] use of (c) typefaces

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

[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

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

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: 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

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

2009-05-12 Thread Jon Phillips
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: 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

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

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote: 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: 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

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

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

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

2009-05-12 Thread Dave Crossland
2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: 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

[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

[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

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 b...@readingtype.org.uk wrote: Hi Dave Crossland wrote:

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 d...@lab6.com wrote: 2009/5/12 Jon Phillips j...@rejon.org: Ok, then I'll just import

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

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

[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, we