<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Crud.<div><br></div><div>It looks like it's time for a redraw.</div><div><br></div><div>There is a remarkable dearth of text body fonts in there. Surely we can harness the power of open source to generate some good body type?</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe we can start with some model characters (oOxXlwWbBAH) and go from there?</div><div><br></div><div>... or is this one of those "new guy on the list brings up the same thing we keep trying to do like it's a new idea" things?</div><div><br></div><div>-Joshua</div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 23, 2009, at 3:59 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>2009/6/23 Joshua A.C. Newman <<a href="mailto:joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com">joshua@joshuanewmandesign.com</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Helvetica Neue, easily the most useful font in the OpenFont site, is a 0k<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">file. I'd like very much to use it for an OSS project, but, well, 0k. Any<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">recommendations?<br></blockquote><br>Sadly that file is not a libre font, so I zilched it.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_L">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_Sans_L</a> is the Helvetica type<br>design available as a libre font. Download it from<br><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/gs-fonts/</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Gill Sans'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="text-align: right; "><a href="http://joshuanewmandesign.com/"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#FF5903">Joshua Newman Design</font></a></div><div style="text-align: right; ">401.225.7222</div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>