Have you checked out dafont.com? They have a wide selection of freely usable fonts. It is a very user friendly usable site. It's worth checking out. You may find something that works well for your needs.
On Saturday, January 1, 2011, Kevin Goffe <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > That sounds fair enough - I assume coding them into the fonts.xml and then a > forum link to the Alaska Revisited thread for more info will be ok though. > > As for the free fonts campaign I'm all for it. > > Thanks and a Happy New Year to all, > > Kev. > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Cory Fields <[email protected]> > To: Kevin Goffe <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Fri, 31 December, 2010 19:51:01 > Subject: Re: [Xbmc-addons] Downloads via skin scripts > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Kevin Goffe <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I posted this in the Skin Development forum but haven't had an official >>response >> so I figured this might be a better platform to ask a bout this idea. >> >> We all know about font legalities and the official repo but what if skins >> downloaded from there contain a basic, free font were able to download the >> original/intended fonts via a script that shipped with the skin? >> >> What I'm looking to do here is create one version of Alaska so I don't have >> maintain the current three as it's getting too time consuming, plus it'll >>remove >> the Alaska/Alaska Revisited Mod confusion. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kev. >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers >> to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, >> should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database >> without downtime or disruption >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl >> _______________________________________________ >> Xbmc-addons mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbmc-addons >> > > That's a grey area, and really one that I would prefer not to explore. > What you're asking is "can I submit a skin that is capable of > automatically downloading explicitly illegal/undistributable fonts?". > > The fundamental idea behind skins in the official repository is that > they work out of the box. If there is an ugly font there by default, > meant only as a place-holder, I would say that idea is not being > upheld. > > In my opinion, a better use of our resources would be to start a free > fonts campaign. Don't underestimate the size and ability of the xbmc > community. I would be happy to do a post on xbmc.org detailing what is > needed, how to help, and what the result would be. I'm willing to bet > that some good fonts could come out of such a project (something along > the lines of the android fonts). This could benefit far more than > XBMC. > > Thoughts? > > Cory > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers > to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, > should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database > without downtime or disruption > http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl > _______________________________________________ > Xbmc-addons mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbmc-addons > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Xbmc-addons mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xbmc-addons
