[OpenFontLibrary] GPL fonts! (Was: Open Font Library submissions)
Nicolas Mailhot
nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Mon Nov 10 08:03:43 PST 2008
Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 14:45 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > Le lundi 10 novembre 2008 à 13:05 +0000, Ben Weiner a écrit :
> >
> >> - OFL: feels like a regular font, but doesn't have embedding
> >> restrictions (you can send it to a printer or distribute it as part of a
> >> brand identity, ideally using the OFLB site URL for the typeface to save
> >> email bloat).
> >>
> >
> > And requires all the annoying renaming and fontlog stuff
> >
>
> Hmm. Compared to the time spent working on glyphs, making a Fontlog file
> seems pretty easy and not very annoying. It's a list of contact details,
> along with dates and a very short summary of the work done. Are you
> troubled by the idea of putting these details online?
>
> Renaming seems like it's essential since a remix/derived typeface needs
> to be identified as such (otherwise it will be hard to find in the font
> menu...)
>
> Can you explain why these things are annoying?
Because it seems a lot of fonts authors do not bother with them, and the
renaming part means that without fontlogs tracing font history is
difficult
--
Nicolas Mailhot
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