[OpenFontLibrary] Open Font Library 0.4

[Christopher Adams]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the feedback.

We are looking to combine the old layout of the fonts/ page with the new
catalogue/ layout.

See: http://openfontlibrary.org/en/fonts

which has the category links you are looking for. Having filters directly
on the catalogue page is something we would like to see implemented.

If you have any more detailed ideas please don't hesitate to file a bug at:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.5

Christopher

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Peter Baker <b.tarde at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations on a really beautiful site! The layout is simple,
> elegant and comprehensible and I really love the color scheme. I like
> it that the samples use ligatures and contextual alternative where
> available (though I suppose this can happen only in Firefox).
>
> Here's a very short wish list. I think the categories ought to be more
> prominent, since I imagine that most people looking for fonts on the
> site will be in search of specialized things: a good text font, a
> modern display font, whatever. Right now it appears that the
> categories only appear on the search results page: many visitors will
> never find them. I notice that you can also search by category: could
> visitors be informed of this somehow?
>
> I'm not sure if there's any rule for ordering fonts in the catalogue,
> which is already big enough to be a little inconvenient to browse (and
> I'm sure it will get much bigger pretty soon). It would be nice if it
> could be filtered and/or sorted. On (for example) art.gnome.org you
> can sort by name or by popularity, and on some other sites by number
> of downloads and date. The usual thing, I believe, is for the default
> to be order by name. Of course searching or choosing a category is in
> effect filtering the collection, so perhaps a drop-down list would be
> redundant for that purpose, though I did find myself looking for one
> and not finding it.
>
> Just wishes, as I've said. The site is beautiful and functional right now.
>
> Peter Baker
>
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jon Phillips <jon at fabricatorz.com> wrote:
> > Now the hard work continues :) We need more fonts, friends, and funds
> > (donations :)
> >
> > Cheerz!
> >
> > Jon
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:
> >> Applause!
> >>
> >> This is great news! Thank you for all your efforts - awesome.
> >>
> >> /me bows
> >>
> >>
> >> Robert
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 06/04/12 14:10, Christopher Adams wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> We've just completed a soft launch of Open Font Library 0.4. Please
> check
> >>> it out! http://openfontlibrary.org
> >>>
> >>> Open Font Library 0.4 features:
> >>>
> >>> * a brand new interface design by Ana and Ricardo of Manufactura
> >>> Indpendente http://blog.manufacturaindependente.org/
> >>> * a host of new features implemented by Brad Phillips of Fabricatorz
> >>> http://fabricatorz.com/people/brad
> >>> * a new translation engine deployed by Jakub Jankiewicz from Aiki Lab
> >>> * a new custom wiki built on Aiki Framework
> >>> http://openfontlibrary.org/guidebook
> >>>
> >>> One of the best new features is that we can now link to @font-face
> >>> stylesheets for each font in the library, for example:
> >>>
> >>> <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen"
> >>> href="http://openfontlibrary.org/face/open-baskerville"
> rel="stylesheet"
> >>> type="text/css"/>
> >>>
> >>> In our next phase we are planning to upload more free fonts to the
> >>> library, and encourage web developers to use our stylesheets directly
> on
> >>> their websites. We'll also need some help translating the site into
> more
> >>> languages.
> >>>
> >>> We are targeting any issues to our next release. Please play with the
> new
> >>> site and file any bugs or feature requests here:
> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openfontlibrary/+milestone/0.5
> >>>
> >>> We've had a pretty interesting ride these past few months with
> >>> transitioning to a brand new host and taking the reins of this project
> once
> >>> again. We appreciate all the help you have provided us along the way.
> >>>
> >>> Let's keep freeing fonts!
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Christopher
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> ———
> >>> Christopher Adams
> >>> http://fabricatorz.com
> >>> +86 186 1172 0021 (CN) | +1 646 201 3335 (US)
> >>> +49 15 156 219931 (DE) | +886 953 036 630 (TW)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jon Phillips 王✳爻气 http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon
> > +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)
>



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Christopher Adams
http://fabricatorz.com
+86 186 1172 0021 (CN) | +1 646 201 3335 (US)
+49 15 156 219931 (DE) | +886 953 036 630 (TW)
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