[Openfontlibrary] FontEmbedding.com

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Sat Aug 9 08:08:28 PDT 2008


Ok, great. What fonts have you uploaded to the site? Of course, the more
font designers we have on the site and who get paid, the better we are.

I think overall on this list we need to get more focused on developing
the site. Yes, of course, fonts are number one priority, but none of
this matters if our site is shit.

Jon

On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 12:06 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> my point is: i don't want to discuss, i want to work on fonts. *that*  
> is my job.
> 
> sorry for misspelling your name.
> 
> 
> On Aug 9, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Gustavo, I'm not telling you want to do, but offering helpful
> > suggestions that would help us construct a better project. This  
> > list is
> > to develop the openfontlibrary.org and your posts, while  
> > informative, do
> > not help us fix bugs or move the openfontlibrary.org towards  
> > supporting
> > even the basic features we would like.
> >
> > more below.
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 11:46 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> >> dear john,
> >>
> >> please don't tell me what to do. thanks.
> >
> >> i don't care about the open font library (and i have already
> >> explained why).
> >
> > Ok, then please don't post here on this list. blog it.
> >
> >> i am a type-designer, i care about fonts (open or not) and their
> >> typographic quality.
> >
> > great.
> >
> >> in my humble oppinion, you would be of much more help to the free/
> >> open font cause if you would direct your energy at raising funds to
> >> pay professional type-designers to work on free/open fonts. (but i've
> >> said that already too...)
> >
> > This list is openfontlibrary.org which is list to construct/develop
> > openfontlibrary first. So, I've put my energy, when available to do
> > this.
> >
> > While great to pay designers, that is not highest priority to get
> > openfontlibrary.org working well -> coding is!
> >
> > We need people to help build the site, not just link dump on this
> > development list.
> >
> >> regards,
> >> - gustavo.
> >>
> >> ps: what are "font 2.0 sites"?
> >
> > Made that up. Meaning, font sites that use web 2.0 tech. There are  
> > lots
> > like you often url dump onto this list.
> >
> > If you would like to discuss this further, lets take offlist.
> >
> > Jon
> >
> >>
> >> On Aug 9, 2008, at 2:34 AM, Jon Phillips wrote:
> >>
> >>> Gustavo, one way you could help is by putting a listing of these
> >>> awesome
> >>> new font 2.0 sites up on the OFLB wiki...then we can track things  
> >>> that
> >>> are free and/or open and what features OFLB needs.
> >>>
> >>> Jon
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 21:58 -0300, Gustavo Ferreira wrote:
> >>>> http://www.fontembedding.com/
> >>>>
> >>>> curious to hear your thoughts about this... :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> regards,
> >>>> - gustavo.
> >>>>
> >>
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