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-for-web-fonts/
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;-)
Is there a way to get a user name for the aiki site?
Ben
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()) which makes debugging
difficult. Anyone know a good way around it?
Ben
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,
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a long way from your Art Nouveau/Art Deco choices
- not in time but in purpose ;-)
Cheers
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...
Ben
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which aren't freely licensed,
And see this one:
http://openfontlibrary.org/files/benweiner/4
for an example of an infringement.
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Hi,
Thanks Dave for the progress report on OFLB2.
I'll have a look and see what I can see.
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content and so it does have mechanisms for
helping newbie users to provide the right information, submit the right kinds
of files, and search through for the things they want. We have added lots of
font-specific richness and we could add more.
Ben
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jurisdiction to jurisdiction. This isn't
our goal, right?
Ah! OK.
Perhaps: The software expression of typeface designs
Thus limiting OFLB to:
- being a repository for files
- providing information about their creation and best use
On the right track?
Ben
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fonts (typeface designs software expressions) for the web.
Do you mean typeface designs and their software expressions?
Cheers,
Ben
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live, and then take a fresh
look...
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who has some time to pick up the slack...I'll do what I
can to move things forward too.
OK, great. Though I'm happy to wait another little while for Dave to get
his VM in order ;-)
Happier doing that than doing the VM stuff myself, that is...
Cheers,
Ben
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orthography icons are also coloured so perhaps it is wise to avoid on
the license icons ...
Ben
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done Garrick ;-)
Ben
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to
roll a Type 1 and try it?
Cheers,
Ben
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Hi,
Ed Trager wrote:
OK, everyone,
Fontaine revision 29 now adds GUST font license detection too ...
Thanks!
Where do I get that revision? ;-)
Best wishes,
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check that all the licenses
in a record are the same (I have not heard why that is necessary
although I can guess it would be for package managers)
What does everyone think?
Cheers,
Ben
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accurate, again due to the incorporation of
output from Fontaine. Thanks to John Daggett for correcting the syntax.
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Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
2009/7/11 Ben Weiner b...@readingtype.org.uk:
ps. you may notice the listings page is a bit ragged - a lot of
random-looking characters. If you cannot find a font listed, try pressing
the 'next' link. I think there are some corrupt files that need to be
removed
q.v. ;-)
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Hi,
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
You can download a chat between Ed Trager, Ben Weiner and I about the
development of the site we had tonight - its 31Mb at
http://www.openfontlibrary.org/2009-05-31_OFLB_devtalk.mp3
Great to know some more about the ongoing work
fontconfig being a mystery. If someone doesn't
understand some part of it, all they need to do is ask. I'll explain
until they understand :).
What happens if you get kidnapped or lose your internet connection?
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. But I'm reasonably certain that I don't yet have code
to specifically handle the case of TTC files.
OK, so there's only ever a single entry in the fonts array? I currently
loop over it so that might be future-proof ;-)
Thanks,
Ben
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usability issue, especially for people accessing pages with
large double-byte fonts or over slow connections. I humbly submit this
sentence should be changed to “The UA must proceed to the next step
while the font downloads.”
Thank you for your time
peace - oli studholme
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Hi,
Christopher Fynn wrote:
And this:
http://jontangerine.com/log/2008/08/typeface--font
Thanks. John puts it very well.
For languages other than English, the question remains open. But as I
meant to imply yesterday, I think for English we have it right.
Cheers,
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terms, we'll need to do a bit of thinking about whether our
intended users relate well to versioning concepts and terminology. I'm
not characterising them as ignorant or unintelligent, I'm just unsure we
know what they will enjoy.
Cheers,
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because our
algorithm said so! This reminds me of the surveillance/database state -
something that is happening very quickly in the UK and makes me unhappy.
So that is an emotionally-coloured answer :-(
What the Font is a great tool though - love it ;-)
Cheers,
Ben
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that ;-)
Have fun,
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of the typeface. I think that is a bit pointless and we
should provide the full set. But I also think this may make the page
slow to render and for little benefit. Each typeface record page
provides the full ruleset. So should we remove rulesets from the
listings page?
Cheers,
Ben
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used. I think the solution there is to direct such
fonts to OCAL, right?
I would, tentatively, agree. Though thinking of the origins of OFLB I
suspect they might wish to direct dingbats back here ;-)
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Hi,
Robert Martinez wrote:
also should we use FONTLOG or Fontlog (is there a reason for
capitalizing it?)
I think it's simply that the name FONTLOG follows the name README and
INSTALL as found in software distributions. People say: Read the
README so we say Read the FONTLOG.
Ben
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in this respect and several others.
Ben
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, but curious on the timeline...I'm sure
there are things I should have documented better, but can do in
realtime with you guys soon
OK, that might be possible in the next couple of days. Not sure I'll be
needed though.
Thanks, Jon.
Cheers
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Hi,
Robert: thank you for submitting this new design.
Broadly, I like this logo: it's much more confident than the current one.
I liked the inclusion of a non-latin character in the current version. I
suggest it would be good to include one in a future version if possible
(it doen't have to
Hi all,
When doing print design layouts, I frequently find that substituting one
typeface for another results in a need to increase or decrease the type
size I have chosen by one or two points.
This happens for two reasons:
1. the typefaces have a different ratio of x-height to ascender
Hi,
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +, Ben Weiner a écrit :
- OFL: feels like a regular font, but doesn't have embedding
restrictions (you can send it to a printer or distribute it as part of a
brand identity, ideally using the OFLB site URL for the typeface
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
Hi Open Font Library list, and Bolt Cutter Design!
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Since this is a free software license, I think the Open Font Library
should be willing to accept these fonts afterall, as long as a little
more work is done to make them licensed ideally.
Ace. Bring
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
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/11/3 Brendan Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Getting the
file onto the server is the first big step in launching an attack.
We can set the webserver to send files for download, so neither the
webserver or webbrowser will interpret them.
So could we
Hi,
Just to add a bookend: ccHost ships with two means of filtering files.
Both are additive - IOW nothing is allowed until explicitly permitted (I
prefer thi, and ccHost is at v5...)
The two methods:
- clever: getID3 (php file identifying lib). Useless to OFLB ATM as
nobody's added and fonts
Hi,
Ed Trager wrote:
bigger problem, as Chris pointed out, is there is no support for complex
text layout. So they have all of this nicely written code with complete
workarounds for both CANVAS and VML, and perhaps one year from now it will
remain largely unused.
Can't wait for that
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/oflib.html
George, this is fantastic work! :-)
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This is very nice.
My comments, with reference to the next OFLB site version, on the
instructions on that page:
* Linux packagers
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/10/26 Brendan Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After dong a little investigating, ccHost does allow you to see the
contents of a zip file. I installed ccHost and then uploaded a zip
file. The contents were there.
Am I on the same page as you guys?
Yes;
Hi,
I can't save text changes on the OFLB wiki - could this be enabled please?
Thanks,
Ben
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Hi,
Ben Laenen wrote:
How is this enforced?
ccHost (the site platform) will accept or reject files based on their
extension and, depending on the filetype, will attempt to verify the
ones it does allow.
I thought people were uploading zip files
containing the fonts and all extra files
Hi,
I wrote:
Incidentally, there is no reason why what I'm informally calling the
'typeface record' (the basic unit of ccHosting as applied to fonts, eg
http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/OSP/322)
Looking at this rather fab typeface, it's clear what a huge chore it
would be to upload
Hi,
Brendan Ferguson wrote:
I am very sure PHP can zip read zipped files, tarball and read
tarballs. It really should not be a big deal expanding ccHost to do
this.
Excellent! It will be useful to other ccHost projects too...
Are you offering?
Cheers,
Ben
Hi there,
My proposal for OFLB font uploads in the next version of the site is to
accept
.otf
.ttf
which are far and away going to be the most widely appreciated, then
.pfa
.pfm
.pfb
.afm
.bdf
which are Adobe-ish formats that are all in the current site: are they
all needed?
Then the
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
Well, not really. Posix has a ~256 character in filename limit. VMS
still has the limits above (~30 character extensions).
Thanks for your corrections, I love this kind of trivia :-)
Robbins and Beebe's Classic Unix Shell Scripting (O'Reilly, 2005) should
Hi,
Brendan Ferguson wrote:
As for recommendations of the structure of the font tarball itsefl
there's a template here:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fonts/open-font-design-resources/foo-open-font-sources/files
Will the font designer know what this is? I really don't. Is this some
Hi there,
If I upload a zip file I get a nice listing of the contents. Should I
also get one if I upload a tarball (.tar.gz)? I don't get that behaviour
on my install and would like it.
Explanation for OFLB:
As Nicolas and others discussed earlier in the year, I think we should
encourage
Hi all,
[condensing several messages]
Jon Phillips wrote:
It would be great to get this somewhere public before weekend is over.
IIRC there were other changes in the rest of the site:
some xml files (like guidelines.xml) were also modified to turn ccHost
from a music-oriented site
Hi,
If there's anyone who would like to do a quick turn-around but not very
well paid job digitising some handwriting to make a font that would then
be released under OFL then write to me off-list.
Cheers,
Ben
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Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/8/7 Jon Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 03:11 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
Deafening silence anticipated...
Did this get sorted out?
I don't think so, no.
Er, yes, it did. In January IIRC ;-)
Cheers,
Ben
Hi,
Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
Dave Crossland wrote:
I await ccHost 5 :-)
Me too.
So is the OFL site's relevance to the rest of the world - the things it
provides, the views it promotes - going to stand or fall depending on
somebody else's software launch schedule?
I'm trying to see whether
Hi,
Dave Crossland wrote:
2008/7/4 Ben Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So is the OFL site's relevance to the rest of the world - the things it
provides, the views it promotes - going to stand or fall depending on
somebody else's software launch schedule?
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Other font repositories
Hi,
I was idly thinking of following up on the fact that Safari and Opera
support a @font-face CSS rule (that will pull in a font file from the
web and use it to display text as if it were a font local to the
computer).*
I wondered about offering a service that hosted such fonts. It could be
Hi,
I wrote:
I wondered about offering a service that hosted such fonts. It could be
an outgrowth of http://openfontlibrary.org/ (because it would share the
same aim - collect public domain fonts *so that they may be used freely*).
To clarify: I suppose that http://www.fontburner.com/ is
Hi,
Just curious to know whether anyone apart from Dave C has made it to
the ATypI conference this year.
In fact, what I'm really curious about is whether 'this' community is
interacting with 'that' community... I should declare my ATypI
membership I guess ;-)
Regards,
Ben
Hi,
On 25 Apr 2007, at 00:15, Liam R E Quin wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 11:59 +0100, Ben Weiner wrote:
Anyhow I am (urk) cross-posting the notice snipped
I am not sure that it's all tha toff-topic, but it's awfully short
notice for those of us who live a long way away. Although
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