Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3 using final STIX fonts downloaded from the new OFLB website. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3 using final STIX fonts downloaded from the new OFLB website. I admire your patience :-)

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Recent non-font content on OFLB

2010-03-05 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:45:00PM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Khaled Hosny wrote: On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 10:29:00AM +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: Dave? Ben? Jon? What about the new site? I'm holding my breath for a functional GNU hurd on which I'll run LaTeX3 using final STIX

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!

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Garrick Van Buren
Dave, This goes back to our podcast conversation [1] and how font designers can make a living in the world of web fonts. Yes, ALL font development. This comes from my experience w/ Kernest these the past 9 months and the observation that the bulk of the software libraries I work with daily -

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] Commissioned-then-Open Font Model - was: New Ubuntu Font

2010-03-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 5 March 2010 21:18, Garrick Van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote: On Mar 5, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Dave Crossland wrote: 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