[Openfontlibrary] david berlow on screen type

Alexandre Prokoudine alexandre.prokoudine at gmail.com
Thu Mar 1 23:31:45 PST 2007


On 2/6/07, Raph Levien wrote:

> I've been playing with this kind of thing too, in different ways. See,
> for example, my FontFocus prototype:
>
> http://www.artifex.com/FontFocus.pdf

<snip>

> Bottom line: it would definitely be possible for Linux to improve its
> screen font display, but it requires a sense of will from the
> community, which I think is basically lacking. Much more likely to see
> incremental improvements, and chasing what the proprietary systems do
> for their screen fonts.

Will itbe legally possible to use FontFocus technology in, say,
FreeType? If yes, did you contact David or anyone else from their
team?

Alexandre


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