[Openfontlibrary] OFLB instructions: helping free font creators to do the right thing

[Ben Weiner]

Hi,

Brendan Ferguson wrote:
>> As for recommendations of the structure of the font tarball itsefl
>> there's a template here:
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~fonts/open-font-design-resources/foo-open-font-sources/files
>>     
>
> Will the font designer know what this is? I really don't. Is this some  
> kind of a source file that is generally not released with the finished  
> font?
>   
>> One very important thing is to make sure that the metadata fields (in
>> the Name table) are properly filled in and correspond to what is
>> intended and coherent with the other tarball files.
>>     
>
> Will he know what this means?
Both these are good points. I'm starting a set of instructions for the 
revised OFLB (see the wiki). they are aimed fair and square at people 
who don't know that much about the technicalities.

They'll also be good reminders for people who have forgotten that they 
know better ;-)

Comments encouraged. Some of the articles are hiding in talk: pages 
behind exhisting articles of the same name.

Key points:
- what to upload
- how to upload
- what license to choose (there's only one answer ;-)

Forthcoming: more on the questions 'why open fonts', 'what's OFLB for' etc.

Cheers,
Ben