Re: Opening up of various fonts by google

2010-06-01 Thread Dave Crossland
On 1 June 2010 12:57, Paul Flo Williams p...@frixxon.co.uk wrote: Are we going to start using google as a foundry name, or take the original source of these, where possible? Google is the foundry for a couple of em, but most of em have their own homepages which ought to be treated as upstream

Re: What happens if a package includes non-free fonts already?

2010-07-18 Thread Dave Crossland
On 18 July 2010 06:49, Hans de Goede hdego...@redhat.com wrote: the openfontlibrary.org site will return to normal operations in some time AFAIK. Yes, I'm one of the primary devs and it will return :) ___ fonts mailing list

Re: From VFB to UFO to TrueType?

2010-08-05 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22 June 2010 15:36, Paul Flo Williams p...@frixxon.co.uk wrote: Or alternatively, would it be OK to package the TLOMT fonts with OTFs in their zips without going from source? I suggest that packagers contact the font developer and ask them to generate UFO sources that are equivalent to the

Fonts package Makefile?

2010-08-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi, Where can I find a Fedora font SRPM with a makefile, from which I can make one for Cantarell? :-) I suppose this will be a FontForge Python script; if there isn't yet one, I will make one. Cheers Dave ___ fonts mailing list

Re: 30 New Free High-Quality Fonts

2010-08-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On 16 August 2010 09:44, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le lundi 16 août 2010 à 11:10 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod a écrit : FYI http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/12/30-new-free-high-quality-fonts-typography/ Thanks! Its so sad more than the half of them are

Re: fontforge in f15

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Crossland
On 22 March 2011 11:20, Paul Flo Williams p...@frixxon.co.uk wrote: I think that means we should update FontForge in F15 and invite people to rebuild, in the knowledge that it'll all just work? SGTM :) ___ fonts mailing list

Re: Advice: tightening line spacing on my font?

2011-11-09 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! There is no easy answer - vertical metrics are always tradeoffs, and since your font supports Vietnamese diacritics which are very tall - see attached viet.png - then the vertical metrics around the 'plain' Latin glyphs - see attached latin.png - are seemingly too tall. But if you adjust the

Re: Hello!

2012-03-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 24 March 2012 12:52, Corey Richardson co...@octayn.net wrote: 3. Are the fonts listed on http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Font_wishlist purely in want of a packeger (i.e. I can get cracking)? This is a job I've also been neglecting for a long time :-) I'm not sure if that list is

Re: Hello!

2012-03-25 Thread Dave Crossland
On 25 March 2012 12:50, Corey Richardson co...@octayn.net wrote: You're thinking point the script at a font and out comes a spec file/SRPM? I have a feeling that with sfntly, ttx or fontforge-python it would be possible to automate much of the process, using Zenity for the rest :)

Re: should we install google croscore font as a default in fedora 18?

2012-05-14 Thread Dave Crossland
On 14 May 2012 21:50, Parag N(पराग़) panem...@gmail.com wrote:   I suppose no reply mean everyone is happy with Liberation fonts as a default install package. I will ask the Google team who manage the croscore fonts (which are commissioned from Monotype) about getting better public points of

Re: Heads up: Droid fonts update in Rawhide

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi! The following is all my own personal opinion; I currently do some font related consulting for Google Inc (mainly Web Fonts project) so I know a little bit about these fonts, but this is NOT an official position of the company in any way. On 15 July 2012 21:42, Nicolas Mailhot

Re: Subsetting fonts

2012-10-01 Thread Dave Crossland
Remember to change the name of any OFL fonts with RFNs if you do :) ___ fonts mailing list fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/

Re: [pkgdb] google-lato-fonts (un)retirement

2012-10-02 Thread Dave Crossland
Hmm, Lato hasn't changed its status since it was launched, as far as I know. ___ fonts mailing list fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/

Re: Overpass Fonts licensing

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Crossland
Hi Richard and Tom! On 6 December 2012 05:53, Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com wrote: In response to a well-articulated request by a developer, Red Hat is hereby dual-licensing Overpass Fonts[1] under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (heretofore the license of the fonts) and the Apache

Re: Planning to drop Reserved Font Name (RFN) from OFL.txt

2012-12-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 December 2012 08:57, Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com wrote: 2. Added Trademark line in COPYRIGHT file I am very confused - this contradicts the idea of dropping of the RFN. ___ fonts mailing list fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: [Lohit-devel-list] Planning to drop Reserved Font Name (RFN) from OFL.txt

2012-12-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 December 2012 15:23, Richard Fontana rfont...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:04:12AM +, Dave Crossland wrote: On 27 December 2012 08:57, Pravin Satpute psatp...@redhat.com wrote: 2. Added Trademark line in COPYRIGHT file I am very confused - this contradicts the idea

Re: Q: webfonts

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Crossland
I guess that approach will work, but since the web fonts will be in a variety of non-system formats (WOFF, EOT, SVG) and may be subset/etc for the web, I'm not sure it makes sense to package them for the system. It might make more sense to package them as regular static web assets specific to the

Re: Project: Creating standard and reusable Open type tables for Indian script fonts

2013-08-22 Thread Dave Crossland
Great project! Will you use FEA files to write the table logic? ___ fonts mailing list fonts@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fonts http://fonts.fedoraproject.org/

Re: current state and future of liberation-fonts

2014-01-27 Thread Dave Crossland
On 27 January 2014 05:39, Fabian Greffrath fab...@greffrath.com wrote: now that we have the croscore fonts available in Debian, too, I really wonder what we need liberation v2 fonts for? I mean, are they anything more than a rebranded version of the croscore fonts? croscore fonts are rebranded

Re: PT Serif and PT Mono fonts packaging

2014-11-17 Thread Dave Crossland
I agree, packaging families within a superfamily individually sounds better to me On 17 November 2014 11:24, pravin@gmail.com pravin@gmail.com wrote: On 17 November 2014 15:11, Akira TAGOH ta...@redhat.com wrote: - Original Message - | Hi, | | On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 10:52

Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

2023-06-11 Thread Dave Crossland
I'm the Noto product owner at Google Fonts, I expect the wider range of styles available by itself would make Noto fonts a better choice :) I would be happy to hear any aspects of Lohit that are superior ___ fonts mailing list --

Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

2023-06-16 Thread Dave Crossland
Noto fonts are available with sources and fully libre CI build systems at GitHub.com/notofonts and follow open source development methodology, although they use the format preferred by the font designer. Some use sfd, one even uses their own custom font code in python, but - as in the majority of

Re: Lohit vs Noto Indic fonts

2023-06-16 Thread Dave Crossland
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023, 4:51 PM pravin@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 at 02:39, Dave Crossland wrote: > >> I'm the Noto product owner at Google Fonts, I expect the wider range of >> styles available by itself would make Noto fonts a better choice :) I would