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[George Williams]

On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 14:49, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> A quick mail to say that some of us got together at LGM (Alexande, Dave,
> Denis and me) to make a list of things that OLFB needs to move forward
> (a first OFLB community council if you want). We really want to make
> something different than yet another "freeware font" site! More about
> that soon.
I know I sound like a broken record, but I will say this once again.

Before worrying about distinguishing the OFLB from other free font
sites, I think it needs to look like a font site.

The biggest issue I have is and has always been the lack of font
samples. When I open the main page I see a year old piece of "olds". I
don't see anything that makes me want to look deeper. At least a font
image that changes every week (or something) would be better.

When I go to the list of fonts I don't see anything to distinguish one
font from another.

Writing something to provide a font sample isn't hard. I've done it
  http://fontforge.sf.net/fontimage.html
is a basic example. When I offered it two years ago no one was
interested, but SOMETHING needs to be done.

When I upload a "screenshot or example" it does not get displayed as
such in the font list -- so what's the point of that option?