[OpenFontLibrary] font assimilation

[Jon Phillips]

I totally think making a list of fonts that exist and are compatible
with the site, and bringing them into the repository, and hopefully
the creators of the fonts, is a useful exercise. Please do!

We are releasing 0.4 today! Its already up!

Who can help get pre-existing fonts into the collection?

http://openfontlibrary.org/en/guidebook/existing_libre_open_fonts

We need a better page like http://openfontlibrary.org/guidebook/requests

We need more librarians to help update the guidebook. It needs love!
It is editable by librarans and admins.

Who is interested in helping?

Jon

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:53 PM, vern adams <vern at newtypography.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On 28 Mar 2012, at 09:41, Robert Martinez wrote:
>
>> It appears that google has no other business than to hoarde OFL licenced fonts.
>
> That's a funny way to word it :)
> i think you'll find the google webfont directory is simply a library of  mostly OFL licensed fonts, made accessible via google's very smart font API. The fonts themselves are freely available apart from the google API, e.g via fontsquirrel.com
>
> -v
>
>
>> Then there are collections like movable type http://theleagueofmoveabletype.com/ waiting for their assimilation.
>> My impression is that once the new OFLB is up we will have to feed a huge amount into the system.
>>
>> Here is my question:
>> Are there planned efforts to easily swallow other collections - or will we rely on manual input?
>>
>



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