On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:20 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote this small introduction to Free Fonts, comments please :-) > > - - - 8< - - - > > The Master Plan for free fonts? Licensing, Community, Tools, Know-How. > > Licensing? The Open Font License is a free license written > specifically for the needs of fonts and type designers. > > Community? The Open Font Library has adopted the Open Font License as > its only license and is now creating a quality collection of OFL > fonts, albeit slowly. The aim is to set up a simple "join the club" > switching dynamic for free and freeware font developers. > > Tools? FontForge, XGridFit, Spiro. These can technically make production > quality fonts, but premier type designers don't use them. Yet. > > Know-how? In the free world, it is lacking, but Wikipedia lights the way.
This all looks good Dave...wiki'tize and blog it! Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Openfontlibrary mailing list Openfontlibrary@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/openfontlibrary
