<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Nice article Thomas!<br><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">I would have</span> <span class="">loved to be</span> <span class="">in Amsterdam</span> <span class="">this year</span><span class=""> :)<br>
<br></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">By the way, regarding this paragraph:<br></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">"One of my perennial arguments with the folks at Google is about the fact
that they didn’t have a very high quality bar at all, and let in an
awful lot of fonts that I would say are simply crap or at least
substandard, at an objective level. Some of the folks on the Google side
of the fence say that they are simply giving their users free choice
and that if one of the fonts I consider to be junk becomes popular, then
that’s evidence that it was actually “good.” I don’t have much patience
for this line of argument. I think that Google is abandoning what it
ought to see as a responsibility to be a gatekeeper not of taste, but of
quality, given that it is not hard to find the expertise to deal with
these things."<br><br></span></span></div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">There is not much difference to the MyFonts approach:<br>"We review the fonts for technical requirements, but we don’t make any value judgment as to whether we think a design is great or lousy. That’s for our customers to decide"<br>
John Collins, vice president of MyFonts<br><a href="http://www.monotype.com/blog/myfonts-website-democratizes-type-design/">http://www.monotype.com/blog/myfonts-website-democratizes-type-design/</a><br><br></span></span></div>
<div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">I may ask: What are the technical requirements of </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">MyFonts</span></span>?<br>
Pretty much everything gets published... just look at the "Intellecta" fonts<br></span></span></div><div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">At least Google send everything to iKern first.<br>
<br></span></span></div><div><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Also, the people on Pilo is always fixing technical issues on shared </span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""></span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class=""><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">MyFonts</span></span></span></span> fonts, like cropped glyphs due to bad metrics; naming issues; etc...<br>
</span></span><span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="">Dave is always checking all this on Google fonts. Not only metrics, but also all the other metadata.<br>Hey! he even corrects the spelling mistakes on the descriptions.<br>
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<br></span></span></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/10/13 Thomas Phinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu" target="_blank">tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">FYI, I did a small update to the article, expanding a bit on my thoughts on quality....</div>
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</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Dave Crossland <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target="_blank">dave@lab6.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/" target="_blank">http://www.thomasphinney.com/2013/10/free-fonts-revealed-and-reviled/</a></blockquote></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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