[Openfontlibrary] design service

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Dave Crossland wrote:

>> I happen to have scans from a 1930s or so Soviet Russia font album.
>> Interested? :-)
>
> If Liam isn't, please publish them on the web and add a note to the
> wiki at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Font_Design#I_want_to_revive_a_historic_design

Publish all 200 Mbytes on wiki? :-)

>>> Also, developing a high-quality typeface can be a lot of work;
>>> Microsoft spent over a million US dollars on Arial, I've heard.
>>
>> Other people report that Adobe's helvetica was digitized by kids of
>> Adobe's founders :-)
>
> LOL
>
> Got a reference for that? :-)

Not in English ;-) And the more correct version is "early Adobe's
Type1 fonts", not just Helvetica.

Alexandre