Hi Nicolas! On 17/10/2007, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Le mardi 16 octobre 2007 à 23:59 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : > > Hi All, > > > > I've just started the Masters degree in Typeface Design at the > > University of Reading (for which Gentium was a submitted project) and > > we're expected to do a non-latin script complement to our font, and > > I'd thought I'd ask around if anyone here has any opinions about the > > following: > > > > Are there non-latin scripts that free software fonts do not cover at > > all at the moment? > > DejaVu tracks user requests in its bugzilla and in the sfd fonts > themselves so I don't think finding glyphs to work on would be hard.
Thanks for this tip, I'll do this and look into DejaVu itself for ideas :-) > Also DejaVu has a friendly & responsive team that can coach new type > designers. Unless you have the time and energy to bear the burden of a > major font project alone, I wouldn't advise contributing to a font > project that is not already organised to accept contributions from > external designers. I've just started the MA Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading, so I'll be getting a lot of coaching from proprietary designers, and will be committing a year of time and energy into a major font project alone, since its a difficult question of how to assess student work that is public-collaborative. Maybe some clever svn and fontdiff tools could sort that out, but I'm not a programmer (yet..) > > Which non-latin script communities are adopting free software and > > would benefit from more fonts? > > A common request is japanese in DejaVu. But that's a major piece of work > and I wouldn't start it without having native japanese contacts to QA > the result. (Red Hat also cited lack of FLOSS font support for indic as > one reason they bought liberation, and indic is another major piece of > work) I am heading more towards Indic, I think: Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam_script > > Or is everyone very happy with Vera? > > Distributions are abandoning Vera for DejaVu since Vera coverage haven't > evolved for years. But DejaVu is not perfect either — there's a lot of > glyphs to add, and a lot of glyphs to perfect. Sorry, I meant to say Vera-derived fonts, inclusive of DejaVu. > You won't find a lot of work to do in the latin range though — what's > missing is complex scripts. :-) -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fonts mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts
