[OpenFontLibrary] font assimilation

[Barry Schwartz]

Jon Phillips <jon at fabricatorz.com> quotes this exchange:

> 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

Google does not simply hoard existing fonts, but provides versions
tailored to use on the web, in Google’s OSes and applications,
etc. This is definitely the case with my own fonts, where I have
provided them with TrueType versions not available elsewhere, and
where they have made improvements for Google Reader that I have not
(to date) backported.