[Openfontlibrary] The Master Plan for free fonts?

[Jon Phillips]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:20 +0100, Dave Crossland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wrote this small introduction to Free Fonts, comments please :-)
> 
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> 
> The Master Plan for free fonts? Licensing, Community, Tools, Know-How.
> 
> Licensing? The Open Font License is a free license written
> specifically for the needs of fonts and type designers.
> 
> Community? The Open Font Library has adopted the Open Font License as
> its only license and is now creating a quality collection of OFL
> fonts, albeit slowly. The aim is to set up a simple "join the club"
> switching dynamic for free and freeware font developers.
> 
> Tools? FontForge, XGridFit, Spiro. These can technically make production
> quality fonts, but premier type designers don't use them. Yet.
> 
> Know-how? In the free world, it is lacking, but Wikipedia lights the way.

This all looks good Dave...wiki'tize and blog it!

Jon

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