Re: OT: Free Fonts

[Eric Muller]

John Hudson wrote:  ClearType is a proprietary renderer that Microsoft don't share with anyone. Although that is changing: http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/03/HNmicrosoftip_1.html Towards the end: Microsoft expects most licensing arrangements to be made one-on-one with interested companies. Formal programs such as the ClearType and FAT system arrangements will be relatively rare, Kaefer said. Microsoft picked those two technologies as its licensing guinea pigs because it had outside vendors interested in becoming customers. Agfa Monotype Corp. plans to use ClearType-related technology in its iType font rendering system, [...] Eric.