[Openfontlibrary] Proposal for open font-related sessions/workshops at LGM08

George Williams gww at silcom.com
Fri Sep 28 15:44:30 PDT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 14:33, Jon Phillips wrote:
> > I do have a bunch of scanned public domain fonts (printed in early
> > 1930s and given to me by Valek) which cover the whole cyrillic and
> > ukrainian glyph sets and numerals, but no latin.

> Since font creation is harder then clipart creation, this idea of
> converting old pd fonts is brilliant to jumpstart the free fonts
> movement...we could just have a big requests queue on open font library
> and encourage people to process them and create the best free and open
> fonts...this sounds brilliant!
Converting scanned fonts isn't always easy.
Getting the metrics right can be difficult.
But it's easier than starting from scratch. Then, of course, we'd want
people to extend, in the same style, to latin & greek.



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