International Conference, Workshops and Exhibitions:
Typoday 201723rd to 25th February 2017
Typoday 2017 is organised by Department of Integrated Design, University of
Moratuwa, Sri Lanka at Colombo, Sri Lanka, in collaboration with IDC, IIT
Bombay and with support from InDeAs and Aksharaya.
Hi
Any type designers under 25 might be interested in applying for the SoTA
Catalyst Award.
http://www.typecon.com/archives/4887
Requirements
The applicant must be 25 years of age or younger on December 31st, 2016.
The applicant must attend TypeCon2016 in Seattle, WA from August 24th to
28th,
Hi
Software Freedom Conservancy is the legal backer of Inkscape, but it is at
risk of shutting down :(
You can help make it sustainable by joining as a member for $120/year -
just 14 people are needed! :)
SFC is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and
defend Free,
Hi
An Italian design magazine is seeking proposals for articles on libre
graphics - see PDF attached :)
Cheers
Dave
PG30-opensourcetech-eng.pdf
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On 21 April 2015 at 18:12, Nathan Willis nwil...@glyphography.com wrote:
Just to clarify, I'm looking for GLIFs with lots of layers
No app other then metapolator via ufoJS supports UFOv3 yet, but there
https://github.com/robofab-developers/robofab/tree/ufo3k under development;
so there are
Good :)
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I know this is slightly off-topic for this list, but it may be of interest
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Workshops, 26th 27th, November
a) Letterpress
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/03/12/taking-a-second-look-at-free-fonts/
:)
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Date: 11 February 2014 02:58
Subject: ttfautohint 1.00rc1 has been released
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A first release candidate of ttfautohint 1.00 has been
Hi!
www.libregraphicsmeeting.org
Are any FontForge contributors attending LGM this year? Will you be
covering your expenses yourself, or will you need having travel
expenses reimbursed? How much? Feel free to reply offlist :)
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are interested, but just thought
I'd let you know.
I'm now making good progress on some of the technical OpenType hurdles in
Hariphunchai. Hopefully I will be submitting an invoice to Google quite
soon :-)
Best Wishes -- Ed
On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com
Yes, this sounds great!
http://www.anitype.com/
Anitype asks a simple question: what if letters could move?
For thousands of years, letters have sat static on the page, but
thanks to today's modern devices, they could do a lot more — they
could dance and jump and wriggle their way across the screen. And you
could help
Hi!
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2014/?p=199
The Call for Participation has now been published!
For this year we are especially interested in presentations that
showcase how the gap between technical and design development can be
bridged.
We are looking for:
In-depth presentations on Libre
Mark Barratt writes on the AtypI list:
Three presentations from the Letter.2 conference in Buenos Aires in
2011 are now available on the ATypI site. Contributions from Peter
Bilak, John Hudson, and Gerry Leonidas Fiona Ross were captured on
video and are the first of many to be published over
Thanks! I'll pitch in
http://fontsinuse.com/uses/5105/dutch-euro-coins-2014
Its days one on google fonts
On Nov 3, 2013 11:20 AM, Raphaël Bastide raphael.bast...@gmail.com
wrote:
Libre? Really? It seems just to be a freeware.
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raphaelbastide.com
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
http://fontsinuse.com/uses/5105
On 1 November 2013 18:24, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Turnz out pretty good doing it this way
Sick
On 30 October 2013 17:35, noo...@aol.com wrote:
I coudnt get the webfont thing to work, so just went with gif and jpg piks
uv the text. Kind uv a hassle, but it ensurez that everybody will see it
correctly. If youre worried that the pik text iz not searchable, just put
the text in a mouse
Hi Quinn!
On 29 October 2013 13:05, Quinn Keaveney qke...@gmail.com wrote:
By saying I don't want to use @ff I just mean that I want to use an @ff that
obfuscates the link/src file so you can not just click and download the
woff.
This is impossible. You may find
On 29 October 2013 14:11, Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote:
Yes, cache headers can eliminate this issue for subsequent loads - assuming
your site is someplace people will visit repeatedly within the cache
lifetime.
This is why Google Fonts is better than self hosting. Its likely
On 29 October 2013 17:58, Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote:
treating one kind of web-delivered asset differently than others introduces
an unnecessary level of complexity
Serving fonts isn't as simple as your CSS though; its useful to have a
web font serve that parses the UA string
On 18 October 2013 09:57, Eric Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote:
the artist is misunderstood!
Datz why dey r artistz innit
On 17 October 2013 13:56, noo...@aol.com wrote:
I recently switched to Linux Mint on my netbook its great.
How iz FontForge?
On 18 October 2013 02:21, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Early often iz a bad idea. Even if your investment in your product iz
minimal and you are giving it away, you will earn a bad reputation. A bad
rep iz much harder to overcome than no rep.
Get stuff az ready for prime time az you can before
On 14 October 2013 23:17, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote:
On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 02:23 -0400, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Another point: It seems to me that many decorative fonts will be used
mostly just as titles, so any problems with the kerning or hinting
could be easily corrected in
On 14 October 2013 21:48, vernon adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
This all could be an interesting discussion, except I read Tom's article
not as part of any discussion, but as a piece of Online Advertising for
the WebInk product.
Its a nice theory, but the word 'webink' is nowhere to be
Hi!
Fun article on libre fonts from ATypI:
http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/
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Cheers
Dave
On 7 October 2013 19:55, noo...@aol.com wrote:
Hopefully with some money you can make it better than FLS.
If you'd like to make a donation now, you can do so -
https://www.tug.org/fonts/librefontfund.html
Cool! I hope you'd consider paying for FontForge instead :)
On 23 September 2013 16:30, Eric Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote:
*Any* change to a font could be considered an incompatible API change (i.e.
incompatible with existing designs that use the font).
A font's API is its metrics.
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Cheers
Dave
On 23 September 2013 16:30, Eric Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote:
But what I’m interested in is—what kind of versioning systems are people
using in the wild?
None
Are you actually using SEMVER with Google, Dave?
I don't have any requirements for this on submissions
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Cheers
Dave
On 23 September 2013 18:06, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 04:30:47PM +0200, Eric Schrijver wrote:
On 23-09-13 16:16, Dave Crossland wrote:
On 23 September 2013 15:52, Eric Schrijver e...@authoritism.net wrote:
How do other Open Source font projects deal
phrase file a ticket on github.com/xen/bakery for this and I'll see to it
On Jun 27, 2013 6:58 PM, Nathan Willis nwil...@glyphography.com wrote:
Does anyone else who uses revision control of some sort have a simple way
to append commit messages to FONTLOG? I'm not saying you'd necessarily
On 7 June 2013 09:23, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
i think the biggest usage of OFL'd fonts today (base 64 encoded
woff files served from a central server to users browsers) seems
to fall into both :) This is what is causing any problems or confusion.
It might _appear_ to be
On 7 June 2013 13:45, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
to convert from my sources to a woff, is a clear 'modification', i would say.
The OFL FAQ and I both disagree with this; WOFF is simply compression,
not modification, and it guarantees 100% that the data you put into
the
On 6 June 2013 15:13, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps some browser developers would be interested in this?
Make an extension.
On 6 June 2013 15:33, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
On 6 Jun 2013, at 12:23, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
Perhaps some browser developers would be interested in this?
Make an extension.
= ask others to make an extension
http://code.google.com/p/web-font-downloader
On 6 June 2013 15:52, Nathan Willis nwil...@glyphography.com wrote:
Kind of wonder why it doesn't
Feature creep is bad, users want less features, options and
preferences by default; that's what extension are for.
On 5 June 2013 08:26, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
Web fonts are never embedding, they are always separate resources that are
linked to documents.
And so are fonts embedded in PDF files
Is it changing the data representation from binary to base64 ascii
encoding that makes for you
On 5 June 2013 04:39, Manuel Schmalstieg web...@ms-studio.net wrote:
I also sent them this tweet. Perhaps it helped to pressurize from
several fronts :)
https://twitter.com/greyscalepress/status/340461699654090752
They don't need the pressure - as Victor has said, they are keen to do
the right
On 5 June 2013 10:28, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
I'm not sure you can, the subsetting is done on the server…
erm.. so… i was right then :) it sucks as a way of enabling fonts as free
and easy to obtain and use ;p
Because it isn't the primary distribution point. The files
On 5 June 2013 11:51, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
And the OFL definition of 'embedding' is … ?
Actually the OFL doesn't define embedding. It says:
5) The Font Software, modified or unmodified, in part or in whole,
must be distributed entirely under this license, and must
On 5 June 2013 12:59, vernon adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
from the OFL definition, the uses of OFL fonts by Adobe, Monotype, etc IS
'embedding',
No its not! :)
Its LINKING not embedding. The obfuscation that the FAQ mentions is a
distraction. Web fonts are LINKED unless they are
On 5 June 2013 12:18, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
I see an opportunity to create more distribution points, and have as many
distributions as possible acting as primary distribution points :)
I do not.
Relying on some central, canonical, distro point to be the gatekeeper of
On 5 June 2013 15:23, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
i feel that the file coming to users from Typekit etc could be a bit more
'informational'.
Can you be more concrete and specific?
Extracting the fonts is just as easy
On Jun 4, 2013 4:59 AM, Victor Gaultney vt...@gaultney.org wrote:
On 3 Jun 2013, at 23:47, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
You can embed a webfont as base64 encoded string inside the HTML file.
Good point, Khaled. That does sound like
On 4 Jun 2013, at 08:05, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
Extracting the fonts is just as easy
On Jun 4, 2013 4:59 AM, Victor Gaultney vt...@gaultney.org wrote:
On 3 Jun 2013, at 23:47, Khaled Hosny khaledho...@eglug.org wrote:
You can embed a webfont as base64 encoded string
I believe these lawsuits are currently the most profitable business
model for font copyright holders.
On 3 June 2013 15:27, Barry Schwartz chemoelect...@chemoelectric.org wrote:
My opinion on webfonts is that they are being embedded in a document
and so everything is A-OK. Nothing more is required.
I'm curious why you think this, given the reasons Victor gave for it
not being the case in his
On 3 June 2013 15:36, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
I have now contacted font pro.com about this. They promise to remedy the
situation.
The download packages, contain no OFL license.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9We2XsVZfc
The ofl has no upgrade model, the authors have no resources to make an
update, and believe the license provides for this situation.
I will try to make getting addition permission privately a convenient
process for those who must seek such permission, for rfns and trademarks.
On May 29, 2013 1:47
On 29 May 2013 18:24, Nathan Willis nwil...@glyphography.com wrote:
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
The ofl has no upgrade model, the authors have no resources to make an
update, and believe the license provides for this situation.
Just curious: what
On 28 May 2013 23:16, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
Perhaps the authors of the OFL could create such a text?
I think Victor has been quite clear that he's not at all interested in
diluting the OFL model like this, and I would not like to see such
additional permissions to the OFL
On 28 May 2013 23:48, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
On 28 May 2013, at 14:39, Dave Crossland d...@lab6.com wrote:
I think Victor has been quite clear that he's not at all interested in
diluting the OFL model like this, and I would not like to see such
additional permissions
On 23 May 2013 07:46, Denis Jacquerye moy...@gmail.com wrote:
With some free software you have the freedom to sell it, to
Generally FOSS means freedom to sell it for any purpose. That the OFL
restricts selling and that the FSF and OSI have approved it as a free
software/open source license is
On 22 May 2013 22:41, Vernon Adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
Any chance you can give an 'idiots guide' on how a trademark license
would preserved some of the effects of the RFN? I'm unsure how
and when this trademark license would work? What would it be
aimed at preventing?
If you have
Hi Victor!
Awesome, thanks!
Could you provide a link to the txt version of the current FAQ (v2) so
I can make a diff ? :)
Cheers
Dave
On 20 May 2013 22:59, Victor Gaultney vt...@gaultney.org wrote:
Dear OFLib folks,
Nicolas Spalinger and I, the maintainers of the SIL Open Font License, have
On 1 May 2013 20:35, Elliot Polinsky ellio...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, could I unsubscribe from this list? Thanks.
I have unsubscribed you :-)
:D
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From: Werner LEMBERG w...@gnu.org
Date: 1 May 2013 20:11
Subject: [ft-devel] new CFF engine
To: freetype-de...@nongnu.org
Folks,
Adobe, in collaboration with Google, has contributed a new CFF parsing
and hinting engine. The last few months it was
On 2 May 2013 01:44, Claus Eggers Sørensen clau...@gmail.com wrote:
Adobe’s patent had run out anyway?
What patent?
Here is the contents of the pad from the LGM at http://piratepad.net/9yWPMBaJWE
Open Font Library Catalog-a-thon @ LGM 2013
==
People Present
This pad text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing
this page
Sounds great! I'll be there :)
On 28 December 2012 13:59, Johan Mattsson johan.mattsso...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I have started a free software project that aims to create a font
editor. It is written in vala and has a rather small code base.
http://birdfont.org
/Johan
Wow, this looks great!
What's the roadmap? :)
Cheers
On 25 December 2012 15:55, Daniel Johnson il.basso.bu...@gmail.com wrote:
Having looked at the required data model more in depth, and looking at my own
feature wish list, I'm no longer convinced that Drupal is the right tool for
this job. (Drupal doesn't handle hierarchical data models very
On 25 December 2012 16:09, Alexandre Prokoudine
alexandre.prokoud...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd start with a better question: what place in the modern ecosystem
should OFLB be aiming at?
When we started it, there was no TypeKit, no GFS, no half a dozen
other web fonts foundries.
What makes OFLB
Hi!
On 3 December 2012 17:31, Daniel Johnson il.basso.bu...@gmail.com wrote:
Dave Crossland's recent email reply has indicated that OFLB (and Aiki) is no
longer being actively developed, and he has suggested Django or Drupal as a
basis for future development. I am not only an amateur font
Hi!
On 30 November 2012 18:57, Ahmed M. AbouZaid a1.abouz...@gmail.com wrote:
I want to add some Arabic fonts to project site, it aren't my fonts but
licensed under FOSS license (of course with reference to the original
designer), Can I do?
Only fonts with a FOSS license can be uploaded. If
AWESOME :)
Yes please
I like the idea, but Drupal has a huge developer community
On 3 December 2012 19:27, Garrick van Buren garr...@kernest.com wrote:
what will support the most successful OFLB.
The OFLB project has failed to attracted any developers beyond the
ones I raised funds for (most of which was out of my own pocket)
I believe a libre font library project that has
Hi!
If you can work in London and are interested in font engineering
employment then please email me offlist for more details :-)
Type of skills required: Python programming, understanding (or
potential for quickly learning) OpenType features and shaping,
FontForge, and RoboFab.
Location
Hi!
as designers become more used to designing for a digital world, could
the future of typography lie in open source, sharing, modifications
and discussion?
- http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/free-for-all
:-D
Cheers,
Dave
On 3 August 2012 04:14, vern adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
some of the fonts have fsType of 0x0004 (Documents containing Preview
Print fonts must be opened read-only; no edits can be applied to the
document), but i assume Adobe means all the Source Sans fonts should be set
to 0x.
On 3 August 2012 06:22, vern adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
An app like DTL's OpenTypeMaster flags non multiples of 100 as 'invalid
usWeightClass'
That's a web specification, and this is (like vertical metrics) a
situation where you can't make a good tradeoff, the metadata either
has to
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html
On 2 August 2012 11:47, vern adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
Would be very handy if the source fonts were in ufo too.
I don't think Adobe uses a UFO based workflow ;p
On 11 July 2012 07:48, vern adams v...@newtypography.co.uk wrote:
OFLB should set up it's own webfonts server, as soon as possible
It already is :)
Aiki and Apache, I think
Hi!
What do folks think about putting ads on the site?
My idea is for the revenue would go to the Libre Font Fund, and then
to pay for development based on the 0.6 roadmap, decided on Launchpad.
Cheers
Dave
Are we keeping traffic logs and analysis them somewhere?
Thanks Jon!
What do you suggest we do for 0.6?
Hi!
http://fatfonts.org
Curious - I expect an OpenType feature would make it work better for
number larger than 9 :-)
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Cheers
Dave
On 18 June 2012 21:44, Liam R E Quin l...@holoweb.net wrote:
Wonder if it's adjustable in that regard.
Seems highly configurable! :)
Hi
Microsoft has some nice demo pages of OT features on the web:
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/
Cheers,
Dave
Much better documentation should be launched in a few weeks :)
On 1 May 2012 18:21, Laval Chabon chabon.laval...@gmail.com wrote:
Excuse-me but I don't know how to process with the terminal screen. I'm not a
very fine geek.
I opened the exec file. Reading the process even don't tell me how
Hi!
Here are the 5 goals I want to meet for 0.5:
1. Alice is a web user who visits
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/alegreya and sees that the foundry
link points to http://openfontlibrary.org/en/font/www.huertatipografica.com.ar;
which is an obvious 404 error. She looks for a link to report a
On 10 April 2012 20:52, Jon Phillips j...@fabricatorz.com wrote:
So the fonts are updated quiet often? That would be great to have an
automated upload and refresh to the files on open font library.
Yes and yes
Spencer, please wait until we hear back a response on this. It might
make sense
On 9 April 2012 18:02, Jon Phillips j...@fabricatorz.com wrote:
Can you provide those sources to us, or are they available on google webfonts?
All the fonts that have had sources provided by the designers are
available to download at http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
That is good
What editor are you using?
Hi!
On 6 April 2012 05:10, Christopher Adams christop...@fabricatorz.com wrote:
We've just completed a soft launch of Open Font Library 0.4. Please check it
out! http://openfontlibrary.org
Awesome! Congratulations to all the Fabricatorz involved in pushing
this out! I really appreciate it :-)
On 2 April 2012 20:09, DJMacKay djmac...@live.com wrote:
I have written a book and used Thai style English fonts; Pad Thai, Farang,
and AW_Siam on cover and title page
I would like to follow up with a book on Laos and Cambodia. I have been
looking or fonts in Laos and Khmer script style.
Is
:)
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From: Raph Levien r...@google.com
Date: 27 March 2012 15:08
Subject: Announcing new font compression project
To: www-f...@w3.org
Greetings, web font enthusiasts.
The growth in adoption of web fonts over the past two years has been
stunning. One of the
Hi!
Very nice TypeKit slide deck from SXSW this weekend:
http://speakerdeck.com/u/seanami/p/get-the-look-use-font-face-and-css3-like-the-stars
Also very nice videos from Robothon:
http://vimeo.com/album/1867506
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Cheers
Dave
Hi
The OERT project is offering expert type design review service for
US$100+ as part of its fund raising efforts to publish some great
educational resources for type designers :)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosgaya/oert-open-educational-resources-for-typography
I hope people from OFLB
Hi
Felipe has been working on a simple Inkscape extension to make it
easier to go from Inkscape to FontForge:
http://understandingfonts.com/blog/2011/11/typography-extensions-in-inkscape-0-49/
Your suggestions about what to do next for this project are welcome :-)
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Cheers
Dave
On 13 November 2011 14:14, Peter Baker b.ta...@gmail.com wrote:
Alternatively, does anyone know if it's possible (or advisable) to
have two versions of freetype running on the same system?
./configure has a standard --prefix option so you can compile
programs into a directory you wish, such as
Hi
I will probably attend http://www.now-we-are-talking.nl
Be nice to see other OFLB folks nearby :-)
--
Cheers
Dave
Hi
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tools/subset/subset.py
I added a --namelist option to this that spits out nam files,
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/andika/Andika-R.cyrillic-ext%2Blatin.ttf.nam
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