Do the dingbat fonts on OFLB have Unicode CMAPs? Are they putting the dingbat glyphs in the Dingbat symbols block, or just randomly in the ASCII or Latin-1 blocks? Fontaine obviously can't tell what the glyphs look like. Currently Fontaine does not have an orthography file for the dingbat symbols block, but that can be changed of course. Fontaine does currently have orthography files for the mathematical operators and chess symbols blocks, so obviously additional symbol blocks can be added. I don't see why a font that covered only certain symbol blocks -- Dingbats, chess symbols, mathematical operators, or otherwise-- should not be allowed on OFLB. In the future one will be able to search for fonts meeting certain criteria -- such as covering a specific orthographic block -- so as long as such fonts are properly constructed (i.e. have a Unicode CMAP) and can be properly categorized in the site's database, why not? Best - Ed <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Ben Weiner <<a href="mailto:ben@readingtype.org.uk">ben@readingtype.org.uk</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,<div class="im"> Dave Crossland wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> We have agreed, I think, that we want OFLB to be a source to visitors of quality fonts, not lots of dross. Ed's fontaine is going to check unicode coverage of fonts, and testing it I found that a font I'm developing, with only lowercase glyphs, fails the coverage check since its a latin1 encoded font without a cap A, and so its obviously not a fully useful font. Therefore OFLB ought to politely decline it as a submission and ask me to fill out the caps, I think. This raises a problem for dingbat fonts, which we have some of, which have random glyphs used. I think the solution there is to direct such fonts to OCAL, right? </blockquote></div> I would, tentatively, agree. Though thinking of the origins of OFLB I suspect they might wish to direct dingbats back here ;-) Ben -- Ben Weiner | <a href="http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html" target="_blank">http://readingtype.org.uk/about/contact.html</a> </blockquote></div>