[OpenFontLibrary] more font categories for OFL

2013-04-11 Thread Manuel Schmalstieg
Hey list, After discussion this afternoon at LGM Madrid with Nathan and Dave, I have the following proposal for the OpenFontLibrary website: let's add more categories! More precisely, the common categories used by AtypI (VOX-ATypI classification) as well as the British Standards Classification of

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] [GFD] Re: Treatment of the OFL in the wild

2013-06-05 Thread Manuel Schmalstieg
I also sent them this tweet. Perhaps it helped to pressurize from several fronts :) https://twitter.com/greyscalepress/status/340461699654090752 On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 4:02 AM, Pablo Impallari wrote: > Good News: > Pablo Cosgaya asked Typekit to correct the Rosario page, and they have made > the

[OpenFontLibrary] WordPress & fonts, bundling vs. linking

2013-11-11 Thread Manuel Schmalstieg
Over at http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/11/11/open-sans-bundling-vs-linking/ the WordPress crowd is pondering the pros and cons of bundling a webfont (OpenSans) with the next version of WP. The main question is: how to keep the filesize small enough, while meeting the multiple user needs regar

Re: [OpenFontLibrary] WordPress & fonts, bundling vs. linking

2013-11-13 Thread Manuel Schmalstieg
Thanks Dave for pitching in. Vernon, indeed that font is for the WordPress UI that is being "modernized". Regarding filesize: a default WordPress install is pretty small, about 6.5 mb (compressed). If you include a font with a wide character set, x 4 weights, x 4 formats (WOFF, SVG, TTF, EOT), su