On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:04 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote: > On 26/01/07, Gustavo Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > i've met michail semoglou and natasha raissaki in helsinki, > > both studied type-design in reading. > > The Reading Mafia :-) > > > i'll mail michail for the background story, i'm curious too... :-) > > Yes, I've emailed their gfs@ address earlier today. Hopefully we'll > see them contribute to this community! :-)
Yes, this is a good approach. > > i was comparing the GFS fonts with the open font library's current > > catalogue. > > The OFLB is at a very early stage. No one is really working on it. > Clearly the GFS is a much more mature project. Well, we here are working on it, just slowly ;) > Their OFL fonts will surely appear in the OFLB catalogue, though. hopefully > The GFS site graphic design is nice. The OFLB is using the ccHost > website management system, which has a default theme defining its > graphic design at the moment. There is no reason it can't have just as > good a graphic design, other than no one putting in the effort to > start it. > > The first thing is to get the OFL working with the ccHost system. The > second job is to do the graphic design, and this starts with the logo. > I was confused about the process of a logo competition, and am not > sure whats happening with that. I'll post about this shortly. Right, well, the system accepts fonts, there just needs to be more active contributors and by contributors I mean both font creators and good ole software developers to help create the infrastructure. > > btw the site is down. > > Which site? GFS and OFLB seem up to me at the moment? :-) Yes, they are both up...must have been an earthquake... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
