Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. Wow! This is really great news Gustavo! :-) [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way No problem with that at all :-) i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros. Wonderful! :-) if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. I've been meaning to get set up for packaging fonts for Debian and Fedora for a while, so hopefully I'll have some experience doing this packaging work by september/october :-) -- Regards, Dave ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
Le mercredi 23 juillet 2008 à 17:12 +0100, Dave Crossland a écrit : 2008/7/22 Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. I've been meaning to get set up for packaging fonts for Debian and Fedora for a while, so hopefully I'll have some experience doing this packaging work by september/october :-) We'll be very happy to help you get on board Fedora-side. We've still a lot of work to do to catch up with Debian — please do not widen the gap by starting their side :p -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
On Jul 22, 2008, at 11:40 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 22 juillet 2008 16:16, Vasile Gaburici a écrit : Since we are debating the state of Fedora fonts, I'd also like to add that Fedora should ship as many OpenType fonts as possible. (...) Other than that, I fully agree with you, but that means recruiting new font packagers. At the rate we're going now, it's going to take many releases to process i have worked on a derivative version of liberation sans for a client (a public university in brazil). i have made several changes to the design of the existing fonts (it is closer to univers and akzidenz grotesk), and created new ultralight and extrabold weights as well as small caps, proportional numbers and case-sensitive punctuation for the text fonts (but no greek or cyrillic). the university will be releasing their new visual identity soon, along with the fonts. i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. * including condensed and extended fonts for use in newspapers and magazines [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way, with mostly proprietary software (macosx, fontlab, superpolator).] i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros. if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. regards, - gustavo. ps: the fonts are in opentype cff format. ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
I'll gladly do some testing. As for the packaging, given that it's a derivative of Liberation, perhaps someone from Redhat will step up and include them in the official package... On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have worked on a derivative version of liberation sans for a client (a public university in brazil). i have made several changes to the design of the existing fonts (it is closer to univers and akzidenz grotesk), and created new ultralight and extrabold weights as well as small caps, proportional numbers and case-sensitive punctuation for the text fonts (but no greek or cyrillic). the university will be releasing their new visual identity soon, along with the fonts. i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. * including condensed and extended fonts for use in newspapers and magazines [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way, with mostly proprietary software (macosx, fontlab, superpolator).] i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros. if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. regards, - gustavo. ps: the fonts are in opentype cff format. ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
(sent off-list) On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Vasile Gaburici wrote: I'll gladly do some testing. As for the packaging, given that it's a derivative of Liberation, perhaps someone from Redhat will step up and include them in the official package... On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Gustavo Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have worked on a derivative version of liberation sans for a client (a public university in brazil). i have made several changes to the design of the existing fonts (it is closer to univers and akzidenz grotesk), and created new ultralight and extrabold weights as well as small caps, proportional numbers and case-sensitive punctuation for the text fonts (but no greek or cyrillic). the university will be releasing their new visual identity soon, along with the fonts. i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a different name) in september/october through my foundry. * including condensed and extended fonts for use in newspapers and magazines [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way, with mostly proprietary software (macosx, fontlab, superpolator).] i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros. if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the packaging, please drop me a line. regards, - gustavo. ps: the fonts are in opentype cff format. ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
Re: packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)
Le mardi 22 juillet 2008 à 15:22 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira a écrit : On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Vasile Gaburici wrote: I'll gladly do some testing. As for the packaging, given that it's a derivative of Liberation, perhaps someone from Redhat will step up and include them in the official package... It's certainly worth asking the Liberation maintainer. However bear in mind Red Hat's main motivation was to have TNR/Arial metrically equivallent substitutes (that worked in OO.o, ie in TTF not OTF format) so they may well not be interested. Which does not mean Fedora isn't. If the font is suitably licensed I'll certainly add it to our packaging wishlist. (sadly that does not take care of finding people to work on this list) Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot signature.asc Description: Ceci est une partie de message numériquement signée ___ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
