On Sat, 2007-27-01 at 12:08 -0800, Raph Levien wrote: [...]
> A large part of the problem is that the vast majority of free fonts > are in the "novelty" category. The number of original free fonts > suitable for text that have a complete complement in all four variants > is _very_ small (another fact which I hope will change significantly). It took a long time for Free (libre) computer software to begin to catch up with commercial software in terms of being useable by people who are not computer experts or programmers. A large part of that was the need to provide infrastructure and vocabulary to help people focus on users who were not programmers. I think it will take a long time before we see significant numbers of free (libre) fonts that are useable and have a wide glyph set. There also are not many good business models for Type Artists to make a living designing and giving away type right now -- people don't usually buy lucrative support contracts for fonts, for example, although it does happen. I say this not as discouragement, but as encouragement -- if we don't start, we won't get anywhere. No, the logo of the Web site doesn't matter particularly. Giving people a reason to go there does matter. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org www.advogato.org _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
