[OpenFontLibrary] Incomplete fonts/dingbat fonts

[Ben Weiner]

Hi,

Dave Crossland wrote:
>
> We have agreed, I think, that we want OFLB to be a source to visitors 
> of quality fonts, not lots of dross. Ed's fontaine is going to check 
> unicode coverage of fonts, and testing it I found that a font I'm 
> developing, with only lowercase glyphs, fails the coverage check since 
> its a latin1 encoded font without a cap A, and so its obviously not a 
> fully useful font. Therefore OFLB ought to politely decline it as a 
> submission and ask me to fill out the caps, I think.
>
> This raises a problem for dingbat fonts, which we have some of, which 
> have random glyphs used. I think the solution there is to direct such 
> fonts to OCAL, right?
>
I would, tentatively, agree. Though thinking of the origins of OFLB I 
suspect they might wish to direct dingbats back here ;-)

Ben

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