Garrick Van Buren wrote: > I've open-sourced Kernest's underlying font serving engine. > > Info > here: > http://blog.kernest.com/archive/kernests-web-font-serving-engine-fontue-now-open-source
Hi Garrick, Quick note to say thanks a lot for all your efforts in this area and releasing your font serving component under MIT/X11 (and with some documentation too). Interesting approach ! Do you have any stats on the preferred formats you currently support? I like the way you're not hiding the origin, license and other metadata of the libre/open fonts you include in your catalog (Ahem unlike others apparently: http://readableweb.com/typekit-and-copyright-fraud/ but they promised they will work on clarifying it..) but I really recommend you move away from the confusing "free" description: please consider saying Gratis when you don't make your subscribers directly pay for the given font and libre/open when you describe fonts released under community-approved licenses allowing distribution / modification / study / redistribution. This clarification will benefit everyone. Please do it. You're benefiting (and rightly so, it's great!) from the work of font designers who have released their creation under a community-recognized license so please don't misrepresent their work by wrapping it under confusing blanket terms... You could also consider some more linkbacks to the open font community websites or even some small amount of support/sponsoring of community efforts around collaborative font design (a tiny percentage of profit on libre/open fonts given back to encourage community efforts which will then benefit you?)... (A very minor thing: s/browswer/browser/g) Thanks again! -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
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