[OpenFontLibrary] font assimilation

vern adams vern at newtypography.co.uk
Wed Mar 28 01:53:56 PDT 2012


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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