Planet Open Fonts

Linux Limousine

2009-01-05T17:42:29+00:00

We’re currently working on a poster for the support comittees for the nine people accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”. They were arrested the 11th of november 2008, in France, and 2 of them are still in jail. They and others are the victims of a witch-hunt in which the word [...]

The New Depression ends printed newspapers

2009-01-03T21:15:01+00:00

Reuters is reporting the end of print. For real.

Many media experts predict that 2009 will be the year that newspapers of all sizes will falter and die, a threat long predicted but rarely taken seriously until the credit crunch blossomed into a full-fledged financial meltdown. Some papers no longer print daily, and some not at all.

Of course, the recession appears to be good for free software, and I hope free software fonts, but, I’m concerned that Mike Ruppert is right that liquid fuel is the most critical infrastructure in the economy and that this “one steep initial crash [will be] followed by a flattening out with maybe a flicker of recovery, then off the cliff we go.” Russia cutting off the Ukraine’s gas is a bad omen.

Palais Châlet

2009-01-02T15:18:01+00:00

16 Janvier Liège, Belgium Palais Châlet spécial de soutien - Révérberations Touchantes - With Live Bruno Coeurvert Pierre Normal Dj’s JB from Paris, Athome, Atka, Le Caniche Noir, Le Diamant Tendre 20h, Rue chauve-souris 62, Liège, 2 euros. Feel welcome to spend this lovely, romantic and supporting night. Where OSP crew meet, where they party, where they hear their favorite music, and where they they dance. [...]

The Fernand Baudin Prize 2008

2009-01-02T13:18:59+00:00

“The Fernand Baudin Prize” has been initiated by several graphic artists-teachers who work in the book world. The prize is supported by Brussels-Export. The principle aim of this initiative is to encourage the creation of the contemporary book in the Brussels-Capital region by honouring the most beautiful books. It is also intended to bring this [...]

OSP wishes you a happy new year

2009-01-02T12:46:34+00:00

‘No government of any colour is to be trusted with such a roadmap to our souls’

2009-01-02T10:44:00+00:00

That’s what Ken McDonald, head of the Crown Prosecution Service until 31 October 2008 thinks about the idea of a ‘superdatabase’ tracking the addresses and numbers of all email messages and telephone calls made in the United Kingdom.

I don’t think it is a very attractive or practical idea either. How about you?

Open Rights Group tracking the Government’s Intercept Modernisation plans

Andy Maggs’ correspondence with Home Secretary Jaqui Smith in July and August 2008

Roadmap

2009-01-01T21:25:15+00:00

Milestone 10 - Release 1.0 - ?: biz tip

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	Project a reliable image: Licences and changelogs attached clearly - both buried in font metadata and as separate text files in release bundles and at the top of VCS treesm and visible on the family webpage, vcs trees for all families, bug tracking for each family, and version numbered releases. Make authors prominent so that clients will be willing to invest in them and hire them for custom work.		Project a reliable image: Licences and changelogs attached clearly - both buried in font metadata and as separate text files in release bundles and at the top of VCS treesm and visible on the family webpage, vcs trees for all families, bug tracking for each family, and version numbered releases. Make authors prominent so that clients will be willing to invest in them and hire them for custom work.
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		+	Consider guides to [http://typographica.org/001157.php proprietray font business] and roll out a similar business infrastructure for libre fonts

	== Future Items ==		== Future Items ==

adler clean

2009-01-01T02:15:40+00:00

"clean" derivative of the adler monospace font

Existing Free Fonts

2008-12-31T11:30:28+00:00

Free Fonts: comic font

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		+	* [http://serafettin.sourceforge.net/ Serrafettin] is a comic font (GPLv2)
	* [http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html EcoFont] is a vera clone		* [http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html EcoFont] is a vera clone
	* [ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ Heuristica] is a cyrillic extended utopia		* [ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ Heuristica] is a cyrillic extended utopia

New look for new year

2008-12-31T11:06:01+00:00

The hiran.in is on air for the last 85days. The site is redesigned now. With the latest wordpress I am using modified version of the theme light by Elad Domb. The major change the design had is introduction of side bar. On those days I tought that having side bar as something unnecessary for the page. But, having some responses for the design specially after the realase of Rufscript, I started knowing the need of links from the main page. [As per Google Analytics Rufscript page has 7800 pagevists, and with 5433 unique visitors, and very few of them had navigated to more than 4 pages ] Look at the page, and express your reaction. Also have a look at my wishlist

Happy GNU year wish to all!

Note : Wordpress 2.7 rocks! I’m louving itt!!!

The Official Scribus Manual

2008-12-29T22:52:59+00:00

Just out and hopefully in the post soon: The Official Scribus Manual! For less than 30 euros, we ordered ourselves 438 pages of printed documentation, examples and other invaluable info. And at least €12 from each copy goes towards the Scribus project. Get yours here: http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/

Riordon Fancy

2008-12-27T16:29:42+00:00

Created by Riordon Turner, aged ten, on a sheet of paper, and fed through Inkscape and FontForge by her father Thomas Thurman.

Vielfalt

2008-12-27T11:53:32+00:00

“Vielfalt” means diversity.
This typeface is a pure ornemental typeface whose every glyph illustrate the concept of « super typography » i.e. beyond meaningful letters, figures & words, typography by and for itself. A pure, radical and extremely powerful strive for expression of life.

velvetyne : www.velvetyne.com

Leoque

2008-12-27T06:32:51+00:00

Handwritten font for the Shavian alphabet. Latin alphabet may be added later.

Linux at Russian schools

2008-12-26T18:10:38+00:00

If you are curious, what’s happening with our (ALT Linux’s) project of deploying Linux at Russian schools, we now have a multilingual blog. Right now it’s in English and French. A version in German might follow soon.

We will try to post 2-3 digests per month, but please bear in mind that we are having holidays up to January 11th starting next Tuesday

HP and color management, more awesomeness

2008-12-25T16:47:56+00:00

It looks like Hewlett-Packard is working on a display calibration/profiling solution. I have to admit I’m pretty impressed by their attitude to our 2% or the market

We were really missing a DDC/CI capable tool that could talk to displays with internal LUT. Now we seem to have it, and judging by documentation the tool is easily extensible (plug-in arch is implemented) to cover more measurement tools and displays.

Una fuente que puede ser…

2008-12-24T15:19:05+00:00

En el primer encuentro no hay lugar para otra cosa que no sea el juego. Para conocer todo el rollo de su vida y sus parientes directos, familiares, y ancestros, hay tiempo. Tarea para las siguientes entradas, menos diversión y mas información. El único dato por ahora, un excelente trabajo realizado por el tipógrafo Gustavo Ferreira para la Universidad de Brasilia. Pueden conocerla aquí.

Recurso de la imagen unb-pro.zip

Tools

2008-12-21T19:38:26+00:00

Non-free & Proprietary Software Proprietary Tools:

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-	== ~~Non-free &~~ Proprietary Software ~~Proprietary Tools~~ ==	+	== Proprietary Software ==

	''It is ethically legitimate to use non-free proprietary software in order to gain experience and ideas for helping to write Free Software replacements'' (-[http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html GNU Project]		''It is ethically legitimate to use non-free proprietary software in order to gain experience and ideas for helping to write Free Software replacements'' (-[http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html GNU Project]
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-	~~=== Highly Proprietary ===~~

	* [http://www.fontlab.com/ FontLab] state-of-the-art proprietary font editor written originally for Windows but with a Mac OS X port.		* [http://www.fontlab.com/ FontLab] state-of-the-art proprietary font editor written originally for Windows but with a Mac OS X port.
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	* [http://www.ikern.com/ iKern] - premier quality autospacing and autokerning system.		* [http://www.ikern.com/ iKern] - premier quality autospacing and autokerning system.

-	~~=== Non-Free Scripts and Extensions ===~~	+	There are some [[Robofab]] scripts for FontLab that could be ported to FontForge Python:
-	* [http://www.benkiel.com/typeDesign/ Ben Kiel] has published many of his RoboFab scripts under CC-BY-SA-NC	+
-	* [http://www.lowest-common-denominator.com/2007/02/version_control_for_typeface_de.php Brook Elgie] has published a ~~robofab~~ script that publishes a font to a SVN repository~~. Someone please check the license~~.	+	* [http://www.benkiel.com/typeDesign/ Ben Kiel] has published many of his RoboFab-FontLab scripts under the non-commercial (and thus, non-free) Creative Commons BY-SA-NC license.
		+	* [http://www.lowest-common-denominator.com/2007/02/version_control_for_typeface_de.php Brook Elgie] has published a free software (MIT/X11 licensed) Robofab-FontLab script that publishes a font to a SVN repository, and an updated version of Ben Kiel's 'Generate Font' script.

	== Unreleased Tools ==		== Unreleased Tools ==

	* Gustavo Ferreira [http://www.atypi.org/30_past_conferences/07_Helsinki/30_program/20_main_program/view_presentation_html?presentid=200 presented an innovative system for designing pixel fonts at the ATypI 2005 Conference in Helsinki]. He has [http://understandinglimited.com/2006/10/10/metafont/#comment-7 suggested that it will be published in 2007] though its Free Software status is uncertain.		* Gustavo Ferreira [http://www.atypi.org/30_past_conferences/07_Helsinki/30_program/20_main_program/view_presentation_html?presentid=200 presented an innovative system for designing pixel fonts at the ATypI 2005 Conference in Helsinki]. He has [http://understandinglimited.com/2006/10/10/metafont/#comment-7 suggested that it will be published in 2007] though its Free Software status is uncertain.

SGANGAL

2008-12-20T21:41:01+00:00

This font is used to write in Marathi & Hindi, in general where Devnagari script is used.

system fonts

2008-12-20T09:48:30+00:00

First of all, it worth noticing a couple of things about Fontmatrix under Linux. Fontmatrix relies on Fontconfig for font management. If you use an application which is not fc-aware (e.g. TeX), Fontmatrix can’t do nothing for you. To be precise, Fontmatrix uses the fact that Fontconfig provides a user level configuration. What it does exactly is to symlink fonts which you want to activate into a directory, itself being declared in the user configuration file (~/.fonts.conf). Deactivate fonts is thus just a matter of unlinking this files from the specific directory.

Existing Free Fonts

2008-12-18T01:01:16+00:00

Free Fonts: ecofont

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		+	* [http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html EcoFont] is a vera clone
	* [ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ Heuristica] is a cyrillic extended utopia		* [ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/ Heuristica] is a cyrillic extended utopia
	* [http://www.tug.org/fonts/ TUG.org's Tex Fonts]		* [http://www.tug.org/fonts/ TUG.org's Tex Fonts]

EOT

2008-12-17T17:44:27+00:00

EOT

New page

#REDIRECT [[Embedded_OpenType]]

Advice to writers of skits, in times of economic hardship

2008-12-17T17:44:00+00:00

Til critics
Learn to write edible plaudits
Cooking rhyme
Is only a waste of thyme

17 Dec 2008

2008-12-17T15:50:16+00:00

New open font projects

I've heard about a number of new font projects using the Open Font License in the past few weeks...

So until they are added to our open font catalogs with all the relevant details - and then to the pipeline of the various packaging teams so they become available in the distros - you can check out the upstream websites: Lazyhandwriter, InkboyFont, Theano and Tempora LGC Unicode, Heuristica, Edrip, Rupali & Ekushey , Sophia Nubian, BPreplay, Parabaik. CuneinformComposite, FifthLegWide & Netdings & Lindings.

Good to see increased activity in all these different styles and languages!

(Update: there are licensing problems which are being investigated for various Ekushey fonts and for BPreplay. )

Five happenings, December 2008

2008-12-17T07:26:06+00:00

1.Free Software User Group Thrissur.

The Window to Freedom event conducted by FSUGTSR, become a grand success. I was there, as a speaker to provide an introduction to free software ethics. More details at here, here, here and here.

**2. A Trip to Vagamon. We Rocked.**

vagamon

3. Free Software, Free Society

Fsfs.in2008

4. Marathon Poster Designing. 30 posters in 10 hours

That was the best part for FSFS from my side. I was there at SPACE office a day before and in 10 hours I designed nearly 30 posters for the need of poster exhibition. Some posters were about the free software replacements of commonly used software and some were based on FCI’s If You Are Page. They are released here under CC BY-SA license. They are available here.

and 5. Laptop battery is dead. Lap now works on AC only

OFLB TODO list

2008-12-16T12:12:44+00:00

Quick tasks: MW upgrade!

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		+	'''Upgrade Mediawiki to latest version'''

	'''Admin''' Decide about keeping or removing ratings		'''Admin''' Decide about keeping or removing ratings
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	'''Typeface page''' Check that a record that includes only source code notifies users of this fact, as there will be no previews and no @font-face css.		'''Typeface page''' Check that a record that includes only source code notifies users of this fact, as there will be no previews and no @font-face css.
		+
		+	'''Main page''': Add a single, brief line with H1 status that explains why this project is different, and re-iterates the key benefits. Perhaps as a line above the 4 smaller boxes about individual qualities of the site

	=== Big tasks ===		=== Big tasks ===

Free Magenta!

2008-12-15T11:35:21+00:00

Qu’attend-on pour libérer le magenta ? A very good article by Pascal Riché on the website of rue89 on how the trademark law makes it possible for companies to own a color for a specific commercial field. Autrement dit, si vous voulez repeindre votre maison en magenta (appelé ainsi à cause de la bataille du même [...]

Más sobre blenderos criollos II

2008-12-14T08:37:25+00:00

Cada tanto nos ocupamos de difundir noticias sobre la comunidad blender local.

Malefico, alias ‘Claudio Andaur’, un ex-manos digitales, (el lugar donde se hace plumiferos), anduvo por Belgica dictando un curso sobre Blender en el HISK Institute en Ghent y por Amstendarm en la Blender Conference 2008. De vuelta en Argentina anuncia el comienzo de Licuadora Studio, un nuevo estudio de animación digital y efectos visuales, a cargo de Andaur, Manuel Perez, Ivan Hoffmann y Diego Borghetti. Para ver lo que hacen, recomiendo darle un vistazo a su demo reel.

La comunidad blender impresiona como muy dispuesta a difundir los valores del conocimiento libre y abierto (a diferencia por ejemplo, de las universidades públicas argentinas), algo influirán las políticas de licenciamiento seguidas por la Blender Foundation, que no sólo libera código GPL de un software excepcional y notables cortos de animación digital, sino también un repositorio completo de uso libre con los recursos usados en sus realizaciones, desde las pistas de audio hasta escenas, texturas, scripts etc: es decir puro contenido libre. Volviendo a Licuadora, mas allá de la evidente impronta blenderiana en el nombre, el estudio ya anunció su intención de seguir con esta mala costumbre de los usuarios de blender de andar compartiendo sus saberes y recursos: convertir en una escena nocturna una toma que fue filmada de día (usado en la película Los superagentes, nueva generación).

Ya está listo para la descarga Yo Frankie!, un videojuego desarrollado por el Blender Institute con el objetivo de crear un juego multiplataforma, usando Blender para animación y modelado, Blender Game Engine / Crystal Space como motor 3d, y Phyton para scripting, y de esta forma promover el uso de una plataforma y linea de trabajo libre para el desarrollo de videojuegos siguiendo los estándares de la industria. El argumento del juego se desprende del ultimo corto Big Buck Bunny.

Pablo Vázquez, (animador argentino que trabaja desde principios de año en el Blender Institute en Amsterdam), forma parte del equipo Apricot/Yo Frankie! y hace poco anduvo por La Plata y dio una charla en ‘Lo Audiovisual y el Software Libre’ organizada por el El Departamento de Comunicación Audiovisual y la cátedra Taller de Informática de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. En el servidor multimedia de Ututo han subido un video de la charla realizado por Marcos.

Siguiendo con charlas y conferencias, se pueden ver también los videos de todas las charlas de la reciente Blender Conference 2008, entre las cuales están las de los argentinos Claudio Andaur (‘Life after Plumiferos, the Superagentes movie and our Blender development’) y de Pablo Vázquez (‘The making of YoFrankie, and complete walkthrough’).

Leyendo el blog de Eckhard M. Jäger desde Alemania, me entero que Alexv 3d desde Perú habia desarrollado un script para importar archivos multicapa de gimp (.xcf) a blender, y luego gracias al aporte desde Argentina de Gez (que seguro no fue tan difícil como tratar de hacer un downgrade a XP), el script se modificó y mejoró y ahora puede descargarse desde aqui. La motivación era buscar un método para realizar animaciones 2D/3D en edicion de video usando Blender como alternativa.

How to include a license inside font files with FontForge

2008-12-14T00:02:47+00:00

link

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-	FontForge has made it very easy to add the OFL to fonts. Here is a step-by-step guide to doing so:	+	[[FontForge]] has made it very easy to add the OFL to fonts. Here is a step-by-step guide to doing so:

	# Step one (screenshot)		# Step one (screenshot)

Dear Chancellor Merkel …

2008-12-11T10:23:00+00:00

[submitted on the web site of the Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel. And for Posnan read Poznań]

Dear Chancellor Merkel,

I hope that by the end of the talks in Posnan you will have decided to support the enviromental proposals in full, showing the strong leadership that you have in the past.

I feel strongly that the opportunities for 'green' industry and social practice will soon outweigh the interests of industrial polluters. I believe that the proportion of the labour market and economic influence that is held by those polluters will rapidly get smaller in all European countries, not just my own.

I also feel that polluters in every country should take on the economic burden of their pollution. The polluters are the only ones who will benefit through their pollution; everyone else will suffer. It sets a very bad example if the most technologically advanced and wealthy countries do not enforce this policy. Other European countries, and the rest of the world, are fully aware of such double standards.

The population of countries such as Germany have the expertise, the manpower, the economic capacity and the political will to change the way we all think and act on environmental issues. Please do not let the short-term interests of the minority stand in the way of a better environment for everybody. A recent survey shows the majority of Germans want to make this change: 'According to an Avaaz YouGov Opinon Poll (5-8 December 2008) 85% of Germans agreed that "Germany should show leadership in securing a strong climate agreement for the EU despite the economic downturn"' (http://www.avaaz.org).

I think in particular of the populations of countries such as Bangladesh who are under threat of significant flooding if sea levels continue to rise, and of the Chinese whose country is industrialising rapidly and whose descendants do not deserve to inherit an industrial wasteland. In Europe we have experienced the degradation that unregulated industry creates and we have rejected it. Please take the next step and make it clear to the world that you strongly support an economy based on environmental respect and regeneration, not environmental destruction.

I know that I am adding my voice to those of many others. I write to you as I have written in the past to the political leaders of my home country, the United Kingdom. Thank you for making this an easy task!

Yours sincerely,

Ben Weiner

OSP in 75

2008-12-10T15:28:26+00:00

OSP is invited for a workshop day at 75 school, in Woluwe, Brussels. Wednesday 17 December. Music playlisting, video browsing, recipes printing, font remixing and pancake making.

OFLB TODO list

2008-12-10T09:53:04+00:00

Post Launch Stuff: new MF site

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		+	Consider the similarities/differences with the [http://understandinglimited.com/2008/12/10/new-myfonts/#comment-16921 new myfonts site] ([http://typophile.com/node/52511 tp thread]) and add tasks to this list as appropriate.

	'''Admin''' Make an "edit this page" link in the top bar		'''Admin''' Make an "edit this page" link in the top bar

New MyFonts site

2008-12-10T00:28:00+00:00

The new myfonts site is looking a little bit similar to the new open font library site! It seems the MyFonts beta site first went live in September, since the feedback page has some comments dated september 19th and thanks to the comments below, and some invitation emails went out in late October.

I wonder if this is a good thing or a bad thing; some people think the designs are similar, and others don’t.

OFLB TODO list

2008-12-09T08:48:17+00:00

Added note about source-only typeface records

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		+	'''Typeface page''' Check that a record that includes only source code notifies users of this fact, as there will be no previews and no @font-face css.

	=== Big tasks ===		=== Big tasks ===

And now for Windows

2008-12-07T23:03:02+00:00

Few days ago, we made a Mac build to ease testing on this platform. It’s Windows turn by now! To be honest, building on Windows is not as trivial as on Unix-like system. So we are more than happy to thank a thousand times the hero, Jean Ghali, to provide you with this updated binary.

Cosmic Sans

2008-12-07T16:24:31+00:00

The planets drawn to scale.

Spiro in ShoeBot

2008-12-06T22:50:52+00:00

Spiro is coming to shoebot!

OFLB TODO list

2008-12-06T00:36:49+00:00

Big tasks: link to listpost

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	'''Make great URLs''': Rework the way that ccHost stores files, so the font-face path should include a version string to distinguish current/future versions/branches (maybe in name of the file itself), and so it suits distro and other software package maintainers. Something like: http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/2.0/Puritan_Regular.otf or http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/Puritan_Regular/2.0/Puritan_Regular-2.0.otf		'''Make great URLs''': Rework the way that ccHost stores files, so the font-face path should include a version string to distinguish current/future versions/branches (maybe in name of the file itself), and so it suits distro and other software package maintainers. Something like: http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/2.0/Puritan_Regular.otf or http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/Puritan_Regular/2.0/Puritan_Regular-2.0.otf

-	'''Upload and download ZIPs''': Make it possible for users to upload and download typefaces both as individual files and as a single compressed archive file. There is now [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/developer/tutorial/Hooking_File_Events ccHost documentation about how to do this.] When this is done, add this to the [[Uploading]] page: If you are uploading a compressed archive (.zip) don’t forget to include the license as a text file, and also the [[FONTLOG]].	+	'''Upload and download ZIPs''': Make it possible for users to upload and download typefaces both as individual files and as a single compressed archive file. There is now [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/developer/tutorial/Hooking_File_Events ccHost documentation about how to do this.] When this is done, add this to the [[Uploading]] page: If you are uploading a compressed archive (.zip) don’t forget to include the license as a text file, and also the [[FONTLOG]]. The primary ccHost developer made a post about something similar recently that [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=76b43c340812051546i506ceebeg91dc90e6f9799e68%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=cctools-cchost may be of use here.]

	== Post Launch Stuff ==		== Post Launch Stuff ==

Donations

2008-12-06T00:13:25+00:00

reworked

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-	~~'''~~Individuals and organisations~~'''~~ can support the Open Font Library project ~~financially,~~ by donating to the [https://www.tug.org/fonts/freefontfund.html TUG Free Font Fund]~~. This takes care of accounting and money transfer for us, and is especially convenient for corporate patrons in the USA since TUG is a 503(c)(1) '''tax deductable''' charity~~.	+	Individuals and organisations can financially support the Open Font Library project by donating to the [https://www.tug.org/fonts/freefontfund.html TUG Free Font Fund].

-	~~All funds go towards things that~~ the ~~current community cannot achieve without sponsored efforts. For example,~~ a ~~funding drive for $12~~,~~000 was made~~ in ~~2008 that hired professional web designers and sofware developers~~ to re-~~design the site into its current form, including the addition of the live and interactive font previewing features~~.	+	You can sponsor the development of a particular feature of the site, either your own idea or one already set out in our [[OFLB TODO list\|to-do list]].

-	~~The donation page has~~ a ~~simple address:~~ [~~https~~://~~www~~.~~tug~~.org/~~donate~~.~~html tug~~.~~org/donate~~.~~html]~~	+	We are very grateful to TUG for taking care of the accounting and money transfer issues for us. This is especially convenient for corporate patrons in the USA, since TUG is a '''503(c)(1) tax deductable''' charity.
		+
		+	Financial supporters can remain anonymous, but one benefit of patronage is that your logo can be [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/patrons listed on our patrons page] and you can be noted at the bottom of each page.
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		+	All funds go towards things that the current community cannot achieve without sponsored efforts. For example, a funding drive for $12,000 was made in 2008 that hired professional web designers and sofware developers to re-design the site into its current form, including the addition of the live and interactive font previewing features.

-	~~Please contribute your ideas for future funding drives to the~~ [~~[roadmap]]~~.	+	To donation, visit [https://www.tug.org/donate.html www.tug.org/donate.html]

	We thank our [[friends]] for their continuing non-financial support.		We thank our [[friends]] for their continuing non-financial support.

TODO

2008-12-05T19:18:33+00:00

redirect

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Existing Free Fonts

2008-12-05T02:05:25+00:00

Scans: DVDs from germany

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	* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/sets/ Eben Sorkin's photos] (See the [[Flickr]] page for instructions on how to download them all)		* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/ebensorkin/sets/ Eben Sorkin's photos] (See the [[Flickr]] page for instructions on how to download them all)
	* [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twm/note3/ Tom's type doodles]		* [http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/twm/note3/ Tom's type doodles]
		+	* [http://www.typeoff.de/?p=290 A German type magazine publishes DVDs of old specimens]
	* '''Please publish scans of public domain type and link to them here!'''		* '''Please publish scans of public domain type and link to them here!'''

El diablo también tiene su larga cola

2008-12-04T18:20:02+00:00

[…] “parece que en las mal llamadas redes sociales la larga cola podría estar desvaneciéndose. Según un trabajo realizado por Szabo y Huberman, que podemos leer en arXiv, la popularidad final de las noticias y vídeos en redes sociales que permitan votar contenidos (utilizan para el ejemplo a Digg y a YouTube) puede predecirse a partir de la popularidad inicial y podría seguir un mecanismo del tipo los famosos se hacen aún más famosos“[…]

[…] “¿Dónde está la sorpresa de que en las redes sociales se aniquile la larga cola? Las herramientas definen lo que se hará con ellas. Cuando están concebidas siguiendo lógicas concentradoras no pueden preservar los dones de las lógicas distribuidas, pensadas para actuar y tener éxito en economía abundante. La larga cola no es una excepción“.

“Si todo lo que las nuevas herramientas 2.0 tienen que ofrecer es una recentralización de la red y el final de las oportunidades para las minorías, ¿para qué diablos las queremos?”

(Versvs’s Blog ‘Lo dos punto cero y la larga cola en apuros’)

[…] “Pero miren esa parodia centralizada de la blogsfera llamada twitter: de los poco más de 750.000 usuarios activos (twitdir llega hasta los tres millones de usuarios pero incluye usuarios no activos e incluso dados de baja hace más de un año y medio), el más seguido lo es por más de 125.000 usuarios… el grado de centralización de las redes generadas en servicios como twitter o Facebook es más que relevante. En ellos, a diferencia de la blogsfera, el rankismo no es un programa, es una descripción de la realidad”.

“De hecho, Twitter es una maqueta de la blogsfera que sueñan google y sus competidores a día de hoy: un corralito. Si Facebook y las llamadas redes sociales, se plantean ya abiertamente como alternativa e incluso se nos invita desde Wired abrirnos un perfil en vez de un blog es precisamente por eso: en el mundo centralizado de los servicios y sus widgets sí que es posible reconstruir una estructura de información similar a la de los medios tradicionales.

Las herramientas son importantes porque su naturaleza responde inmediatamete al quién centraliza. Y la alternativa hoy, el estado de la blogsfera, es centralizar (en cada uno) o ser centralizada (por los cuatro grandes poderosos)”.

(David de Ugarte ‘La blogsfera bajo ataque’).

Web font linking with @font-face

2008-12-04T15:54:46+00:00

extneral links

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	If you host font files on your own website, you may wish to minimise bandwidth costs by [[blocking font linking from other websites]].		If you host font files on your own website, you may wish to minimise bandwidth costs by [[blocking font linking from other websites]].
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		+	== External Links ==
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		+	[http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten A List Apart] explained the topic in depth back in August 2007.
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		+	Download browsers that support web fonts:
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		+	* [http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Firefox]
		+	* [http://www.opera.com/browser/next/ Opera]
		+	* [http://www.apple.com/safari Safari]

Font Linking

2008-12-04T15:48:27+00:00

Redirecting to Web font linking with @font-face

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Web fonts

2008-12-04T15:48:23+00:00

redir

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KuehneAegean

2008-12-04T09:48:36+00:00

Basic font for Aegean accounting symbols (U+10100 - U+1013F)

OFLB TODO list

2008-12-04T07:47:43+00:00

Big tasks: added detail to JS todo

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	=== Big tasks ===		=== Big tasks ===

-	'''Rid of JS bling''': Any lightbox style javascript popup stuff should be removed and replaced with simple on-page links. The GET page is the main example; the upload page has a lightbox status when users click upload that could be replaced by a simpler barbers-pole.	+	'''Rid of JS bling''': Any lightbox style javascript popup stuff should be removed and replaced with simple on-page links. The GET page is the main example with its "action" links, but there are lots of javascript:// links scattered throughout the site; the upload page has a lightbox based status popup when users click upload, that could be replaced by a simpler barbers-pole inline on the page and making the text in the popup appear on the page. That kind of thing would be best done with jQuery rather than the large-file-size libraries we have at the moment. This probably involves patching ccHost itself, and sending the patches upstream, so really this is "port ccHost's default JS libraries to jQuery" perhaps.

	'''Lists with previews''': The [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files files page] lists all the fonts in the library, but there is no way of filtering them by tag and by license. We already [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/tags list tags] on a separate page, so putting that page's contents into the "get" page would be good. We do all this with the query browser feature of ccHost that [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/Custom_Query_Templates is now fully documented] and the [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/query-api query-api] URL explains how to filter by license. Also sort by categories (sans, serif, mono, script). It should be paginated with options (default to 10 per page, be able to say how many per page, and be able to list ALL fonts.) This list should include small previews, like		'''Lists with previews''': The [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/files files page] lists all the fonts in the library, but there is no way of filtering them by tag and by license. We already [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/tags list tags] on a separate page, so putting that page's contents into the "get" page would be good. We do all this with the query browser feature of ccHost that [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/Custom_Query_Templates is now fully documented] and the [http://openfontlibrary.fontly.org/query-api query-api] URL explains how to filter by license. Also sort by categories (sans, serif, mono, script). It should be paginated with options (default to 10 per page, be able to say how many per page, and be able to list ALL fonts.) This list should include small previews, like
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	'''Make great URLs''': Rework the way that ccHost stores files, so the font-face path should include a version string to distinguish current/future versions/branches (maybe in name of the file itself), and so it suits distro and other software package maintainers. Something like: http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/2.0/Puritan_Regular.otf or http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/Puritan_Regular/2.0/Puritan_Regular-2.0.otf		'''Make great URLs''': Rework the way that ccHost stores files, so the font-face path should include a version string to distinguish current/future versions/branches (maybe in name of the file itself), and so it suits distro and other software package maintainers. Something like: http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/2.0/Puritan_Regular.otf or http://openfontlibrary.org/people/benweiner/Puritan_Regular/2.0/Puritan_Regular-2.0.otf

-	'''Upload and download ZIPs'''~~: Brendan Ferguson is working on this~~: Make it possible for users to upload and download typefaces both as individual files and as a single compressed archive file. There is now [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/developer/tutorial/Hooking_File_Events ccHost documentation about how to do this.] When this is done, add this to the [[Uploading]] page: If you are uploading a compressed archive (.zip) don’t forget to include the license as a text file, and also the [[FONTLOG]].	+	'''Upload and download ZIPs''': Make it possible for users to upload and download typefaces both as individual files and as a single compressed archive file. There is now [http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Cchost/developer/tutorial/Hooking_File_Events ccHost documentation about how to do this.] When this is done, add this to the [[Uploading]] page: If you are uploading a compressed archive (.zip) don’t forget to include the license as a text file, and also the [[FONTLOG]].

	== Post Launch Stuff ==		== Post Launch Stuff ==

Dave Crossland

2008-12-03T21:15:14+00:00

protected "[[Dave Crossland]]" [edit=sysop:move=sysop]

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-	~~#REDIRECT~~ [[~~User~~:~~Abattis~~]]	+	Dave lives near Bournemouth, England, and earns a living through [http://www.understandingcomputers.com computer systems and network consultancy]. He completed a BA (Hons) Interaction Design degree at [http://www.rave.ac.uk Ravensbourne College] in 2006, and is currently on the MA Typeface Design course at [http://www.reading.ac.uk The University of Reading], from October 2007 to July 2009.
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		+	He is especially interested in the process of digital type design, and if you are interested in developing new type design software be sure to drop him an email.
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		+	His design philosophy centers around the parameterisation and automation of design to improve the design process, and some of his old ideas are published at [http://www.designprocessed.com designprocessed.com].
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		+	More recently he has become involved in software freedom advocacy, and undertaken several speaking engagements; some are published at [http://www.river-valley.tv River-Valley.tv].
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		+	Email him at dave lab6.com