<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello Open Font Library people -<div><br></div><div>I'm looking for some help from any of you who have been involved in collaborative font projects. The programme for October's ATypI conference in Amsterdam has been published, and I'm giving a talk on 'Open and collaborative font design in a web fonts world':</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.atypi.org/atypi-amsterdam-2013/amsterdam-programme/activity?a=298">http://www.atypi.org/atypi-amsterdam-2013/amsterdam-programme/activity?a=298</a></div><div><br></div><div>In the short time I have (40 mins) I hope to give a summary of the success of open fonts over the last decade, but also bring up some of the more difficult issues. This group has done a good job of highlighting where the OFL model in particular is both great and troublesome, but I'm not limiting the scope to OFL.</div><div><br></div><div>In particular, I'd like to hear either privately or on this list about any specifically collaborative open font projects that you've been involved in. By 'collaborative' I mean where:</div><div><br></div><div>- the design & engineering is done by multiple people not from the same studio or company (though they could be friends)</div><div>- there is a reasonably successful mechanism in place for contributors to add their work to the whole</div><div>- there is an iterative process, not just passing the baton from designer to engineer to publisher only once</div><div>- something reasonably useful has been produced and made available</div><div>- it's not 99% the work of one person with a couple of tiny additions</div><div><br></div><div>The contributions could be of different kinds - for example, one person doing the glyph design, one person the OpenType, one person the hinting, one person the engineering. However, it should be a group effort, not just person A handing off to person B then going away.</div><div><br></div><div>I would love to highlight some successful collaborative projects, so please write me this week with details.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Victor</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>