On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 11:09 PM, vernon adams wrote:
HAHAHA! Who iz Bruno Maag?
He runs a well known type design agency. He’s a loud critic of Free fonts.
Just to feed my curiosity... How does one design free fonts and then
criticize free fonts? Any URLs to share?
Alexandre
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Raphaël Bastide wrote:
Libre? Really? It seems just to be a freeware.
Days is SIL. It's also extensively used on websites, shop signs, movies etc.
Jovanny once told a story how he was walking with a friend, and while
he was explaining why he makes his fonts
How much do you expect to pay for free software? :)
Alexandre
On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Certainly! When I have some money.
In a message dated 10/5/2013 6:40:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
d...@lab6.com writes:
Cool! I hope you'd consider paying for FontForge
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 11:07:50AM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
Haha damn you that would have been my fault if it was messed up! XD
BTW, it's
of 100 or not).
--
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
in 90s? :)
Speaking of OFL typefaces, Jovanny just announced availability of
Oranienbaum, a new ultracontrast antiqua.
http://jovanny.ru/eng-free-fonts.html
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
of Google and may be registered in certain
jurisdictions.
- Digitized data copyright © 2010-2011, Google (not 2012-2012)
The blog posting doesn't mention any of that. What gives?
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
, and both PTs are
free/open source.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
should be selling flowers perhaps importated from Equator.
Is that some kind of obscure spam? :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
On 5/14/11, Victor Gaultney wrote:
many designers, and makes the free font movement look more and more like
Johnny Depp.
And that means what exactly? :)
Also, if we make free font movement look more like Angelina Jolie,
whatever it would mean, would it help? :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http
On 4/8/11, jon wrote:
I just wanted to get a head count on who will be coming to LGM this
year?
-1
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
On 10/29/10, Christopher Adams wrote:
This looks legitimate.
If it is legitimate, then why Victor got the mail and not me, owner of
openfontlibrary.org? :)
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
programmer anyway. It was ever so.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
on a
FontForge project and then exporting all glyphs to separate files
using some script. Stuff like that. Anyone?
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
that exports
it to UFO or whatever, in case that someone really-really needs it?
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
want see you
in this list. Because I've personally had enough of that.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
On 6/5/10, Ben Laenen wrote:
once one of your 140 Russians finishes your site?
*cough* One is usually more than enough *cough*
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
Hi,
This is purely off-topic, but does anybody have any idea what happened
to Greek FOnt Society?
http://www.greekfontsociety.org/ looks taken over
Alexandre
Hi,
I'm terribly sorry for crossposting, but that's, as usual, just in case :)
How about annual Text Layout Summit at LGM in late May?
Behdad, will you be able to attend? SIL people, how about you? Maybe
even Victor could come?
Alexandre
Hi,
http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=285
PT Sans by Paratype has a separate version under OFL now.
All thanks presumably go to Dave Crossland? ;-)
Alexandre
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi Alexandre!
On 5 April 2010 14:36, Alexandre Prokoudine
alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=285
PT Sans by Paratype has a separate version under OFL now.
The OFL.txt isn't
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
This has the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.0 - 22 November 2005 -
and the current version is 1.1 - http://scripts.sil.org/OFL#5667e9e4
I will email Paratype about this.
Um, already acknowledged and to be fixed in few days.
Alexandre
On 3/8/10, Dave Crossland wrote:
Ed thinks about replacing ccHost with a custom webapp.
Ed suggests just talking about OFLB v2 again for the 4th time at LGM?
Ed is offering to cut the code for this, so, don't be mean to him. :-)
What's the point of being mean when I can be nasty? :)
On 3/6/10, fontfree...@aol.com wrote:
for MOST authors of software libraries, that is simply false. Programmers
understand that releasing their software libraries as proprietary will make
more money in the long run.
Oh come on, what sort of long run are you talking about? Everybody
knows we
On 1/5/10, Jon Phillips wrote:
pick up shovel.
Which mean exactly what? :)
Alexandre
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
Hi Dave,
in other circumstances I'd enjoy a detailed discussion, but a dictum
stating a font is not legally redistributable simply because the
creator uses a modified license defies not only common sense, but also
the spirit of
Spalinger
Jon Phillips
Alexandre Prokoudine
Heh, I'd be then what we here in matushka Rossiya call svadebny
general (a kind of traditional military high rank guy at a marriage
to make the marriage ceremony look more solid).
Generally I don't mind as long as you don't make me wear uniform
Hi,
We are back again :)
Alexandre
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:13 AM, fontfree...@aol.com wrote:
I happen to be feeling a bit frustrated with the openfontlibrary.org
downtime.
FYI there is a thing called weekend. This is usually two last days of
a week, namely Saturday and Sunday. This is when people take rest from
previous five
2009/8/21 Andrey V. Panov wrote:
No. Xz format is becoming the leading format for compression for Linux
binary packages. Slackware already switched to it, Red Hat is going to
do this in its rpm format. You may also install 7zip 9.x to unpack this.
You mean, I need to fetch 7zip for Linux,
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Andrey V.
Panovpa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru wrote:
The second beta version of Heuristica fonts is released. This version adds
kerning for Cyrillic, adds more Cyrillic and other characters (e.g. Euro).
Link to download: ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it:
git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git
You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages
(right-hand menu) or on the upstream website...
Or
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:20 AM, minombresbond wrote:
El Fri, 7 Aug 2009 17:29:06 +0400
Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com escribió:
FYI,
http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=3
Alexandre
http://www.libregraphicsworld.org/ - Why didn't you
FYI:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/gwdrawfonttool/
Written in Python, using GTK+ and Cairo, this project is comprised of
a canvas capable of drawing East-Asian character glyphs registered at
the GlyphWiki project (http://glyphwiki.org), and so-called drawfonts
which draw them in a specific
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
What I don't understand is, why is it a good idea to let website designers
choose what font *I* read their text with?
Think of paper books :)
Alexandre
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
This will change hopefully by the end of the year. Firefox plans to use
HarfBuzz on all platforms.
Speaking of which... What is the best way to track HarfBuzz progress?
Alexandre
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
Despite popular television programmes :) in fact what happens first is
you generally get a cease-and-desist letter. There's no point suing
people who have no money, as taking people to court is expensive.
Well, presumably Microsoft,
Hi,
Maybe we should have some kind of WhatTheFont client in admin panel to
check uploaded fonts for being actually (c) typefaces?
Alexandre
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
But I assume that the problem you are really trying to address is one
of people copying glyph outlines into a new font that they claim to be
their own?
Yes
For that kind of situation, one would, I assume, have to
try to match glyph outlines
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/4/7 Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com:
I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at
the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go.
I have had a change of fortune and am now going to attend! :)
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi,
I've been putting off my LGM2009 flights/room bookings, and am now at
the point where I have to say I really doubt I will be able to go.
Since I'd like to have the OFLBv2 progress presented there, I wonder
who is definitely going,
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I heard a rumour that the Reading MATD portfolio site at
www.typefacedesign.org has PDFs from which fonts were extracted and
posted on some Chinese or Russian forum (communists, eh? ;-) The
I can hear you! :)
rumour was that the rips
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
And as I said, I would prefer to avoid a new version of OFL until
there is a real world example of the OFLv1.1 being defective; until
then, the FAQ updates are the best response.
Amen to that? :)
Alexandre
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
I agree, attempting extraction for that purpose is really abusing the
author's willingness to put out a PDF specimen for review/critique
regardless of the chosen licensing.
http://fontmatrix.net/node/43
Alexandre
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
No, not at all -- it assumes that the type designers and vendors
don't like people doing it, which _is_ true, by and large. I'm
saying, let's not do things which we know will cause anger, bad
publicity and potentially leave a lasting bad
On 3/21/09, Dave Crossland wrote:
By enforcing this level of professionalism, we naturally encourage a
similar level of professionalism at the typographic level too. And of
course we expect that when fontaine's report shows missing glyphs
that this will encourage the font designers to go
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Ed Trager wrote:
If you know the right people (preferably those who control purse
strings ;-) ) at Wikimedia, please keep plugging OFLB and see if we
can get some $ from Wikimedia foundation to get OFLB done properly.
I actually know Brianna from WIkimedia ---
http://code.google.com/p/osifont/
In some european countries, CAD projects must have font which conform
to IS0 3O98 specification. Comercial CADs has this font, but free CADs
not. There is no available free font yet, so this project will fix
this. This font will be created completely from the
2009/1/15 Dave Crossland wrote:
FYI :)
How many people from OFLB are planning to attend LGM? I am :-)
Well, I will do my best, but no promises.
Alexandre
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
Interested? :-)
If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
wiki at
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-)
Publish them on the web elsewhere and add a link to the wiki.
OK
If you need space, mail me offlist.
Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work;
Microsoft spent over a million US
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Ed Trager wrote:
The whole reason for copyright law is to provide legal protections to
authors of creative works, is it not?
It is not. Sure, it's what copyright laws usually pretend to be, but
never actually care to become.
Alexandre
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
http://www.openfontlibrary.com/
*shrugs shoulders*
Well, the best of luck to them.
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Rob Myers wrote:
Is the name a problem, project identity-wise?
I do foresee general confusion, but I won't argue over that till I'm
blue in the face. I have better things to do. I just hope that
initiator of the second project is a reasonable person who won't put
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Fontfreedom wrote:
Initially, Openfontlibrary was created as a place for fonts dedicated to the
Public Domain.
I really don't know what made you jump at this conslusion. When I was
pinging rejon three years ago about creating a OCAL like website for
fonts, I
On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/11/1 Ben Weiner:
perhaps a font where the glyph stems were nude figures
Your speculation about an unsuitable font is illuminating, George ;-)
I've seen 2 freeware fonts with naked chick clipart for glyphs :-)
And you never
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:
I disabled the blacklist that I believe Jon installed because
blacklists have victims, and have been doing antispam by hand the last
week while I find the time to set up a captcha that works. I'll try
again now.
Could you please try
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Jon Phillips wrote:
Heya all, we are getting massive wiki spam. Alexandre, didn't you
install some spam plugins to help?
No, because OSUOSL ignores me and my new ssh key
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:50 PM, John wrote:
I need clarification on what fonts can be uploaded to the library. My
personal collection is rather large and I'm sure that I can contribute but
need to know what, other than copyrighted (commercial) or restricted
licencing fonts, are not
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alexandre, what happened to openfontlibrary.org domain name?
http://openfontlibrary.org/
Looks like the DNS info is screwy? What's up? Please update the dns!!!
Someone must be cybersquatting...
Can you please fix this
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:41 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Well, it seems like they listened to recommendations from you and
Barbara (and probably other reviewers and beta testers in the community):
http://www.stixfonts.org/user_license.html
http://www.stixfonts.org/STIXfaq.html
That still
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Mark Leisher wrote:
I'm new to the list and hope this is an appropriate place to announce this.
http://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/gbdfed
For those of you unfamiliar with gbdfed, it aspires (when I have time)
to be the fontforge for bitmap fonts.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:
Very cool! You are going to go, right?
Right :)
Is there travel funding?
Most likely not.
(Honestly, my one way ticket from Beijing last year was ca. $450 - not
that much, but surely depends on life priorities :))
Alexandre
Hi,
Just to let you know - ATypI'08 (which will be in St. Petersburg,
Russia, this Spetember) registration of presenters is delayed till
April, 14, so you still have time, if you wanted to do a talk :)
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Kess Vargavind wrote:
Now, isn't this clever, knowing that to be my IP? ;) Could someone please
fix?
Thanks fore reporting. Working on it.
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
2008/2/24 Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Hi all,
SIL recently re-released under the Open Font License a big library of
glyphs (in PostScript Type1 format) from an older font creation system
called SIL Encore.
It says Extended Cyrillic character set, but it was brouyght to my
attention :) that
On Nov 16, 2007 12:37 AM, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
ps: i wonder why this has not been annouced here?
Or why SIL's announcements mailing list is silent despite of releases
being out :(
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
On 10/15/07, Jon Phillips wrote:
Alexandre, could you followup with osuosl if this is still not working?
It is working :)
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org
On 9/28/07, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
...
- Future plans
We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this
wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen.
I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early
1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole
On 9/28/07, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
We wanted to make a fonts digitizing session this year, but this
wasn't planned beforehand, so it didn't happen.
I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early
1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic
Greetings,
One really hard kick for support service --- and
http://openfontlibrary.org/ is back online finally.
Cheers,
Alexandre
___
Openfontlibrary mailing list
Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org
On 06 Sep 2007 16:23:58 -0700, George Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
openfontlibrary.org still has no dns entry
Can this be fixed?
I'm bugging registration company right now.
*sigh* Things couldn't be slower in this part of Earth :-/
Alexandre
On 9/3/07, Jon Phillips wrote:
I'll fix this here today, hopefully. Just needed some time and money
investment :)
Alexandre
Please do or pass this task on because I'm getting nonstop hate mail
about and want this fixed yesterday...
Action taken, waiting for results.
Thanks everyone
On 8/29/07, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 29/08/2007, Jon Phillips wrote:
Alexandre! Looks like openfontlibrary.org has been jacked or needs to be
renewed! Can you do this asap!!!
Seems jacked:
So, what do we do now? I missed the whole thing being on vacation.
Alexandre
74 matches
Mail list logo
