[OpenFontLibrary] Kernest’s Web Font Serving Engine – Fontue – Now Open Source

[Nicolas Spalinger]

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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