Hi there,
Who on the list has experience of incorporating glyphs (or characters)
from a third party into their existing typeface?
I'd like to hear about whether it worked out well and was a practical
and useful experience.
To clarify: I'm talking about extending an existing typeface
hello,
i am jeremy.
i am a graduating student in graphic design in ECAL/switzerland.
i have a little experience in type design.
i would like to participate in the free font project
what kind of font is most needed?
hope to hear from you soon!
jeremy
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 18:01 +0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 04:32 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/2/2008 10:26:10 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Canada does indeed have a public domain.
In fact, there are even Canadian public
Hi, Jeremy,
Others on this list may provide you with other answers. So please accept my
suggestion as just one of several possibilities:
As people begin uploading fonts, we discover some Latin fonts that contain
not much more than basic Latin A-Z. To make these fonts really usable, it
would be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... Assuming Person A is using the MIT/X11 License for
their font:
Person A created a font called zfff. Uploads it to the OpenFontLibrary.
Person B downloads it, modifies it 40%, and sells it as a commercial font,
Super zfff.
Person C buys the font Super
Hi!
2008/11/5 jeremy schorderet [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
i am jeremy.
i am a graduating student in graphic design in ECAL/switzerland.
i have a little experience in type design.
Pleased to meet you! I'm a student on the MA Typeface Design course in
Reading, UK :-)
i would like to participate in
Can we have a free version of Beowolf sans? ;-)
- Rob.
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On Wednesday 05 November 2008, jeremy schorderet wrote:
hello,
i am jeremy.
i am a graduating student in graphic design in ECAL/switzerland.
i have a little experience in type design.
i would like to participate in the free font project
what kind of font is most needed?
Why not a Comic
Well perhaps a comic sans RandomFont, then. ;-)
But, yes, rather than reverse-engineering a classic, is there something
new but well-defined that would make a good project?
- Rob.
Erik van Blokland wrote:
Yeah, heaven forbid you would make something new.
Erik
On 5 nov 2008, at 21:22,
Erik van Blokland wrote:
Yeah, heaven forbid you would make something new.
For making something really new, I suggest you check out a website
Erik has made that has a database of ideas that it assembles into fun
little type design briefs:
www.typecooker.com
:-)
Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work;
Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard.
It's my understanding very few fonts are patented. I suppose if you spend $1
Million on developing a font, you can afford the average $10,000 (but can be
much
Dave Crossland wrote:
Secondly, there is the specific case of the cashflow being positive.
First there are the one-off cases: Ascender seems to have made money
doing it recently for Google and Red Hat, and Evertype also did a paid
free software font job recently.
Exactly - when Red Hat and
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:46, Ed Trager wrote:
at the *nix file command source code, I bet you could fairly easily
find a reference to the magic file header bytes that are used to
detect TTF/OTF files and then add this to the getId3() stuff, assuming
that getId3() is well-written.
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