[OpenFontLibrary] Incomplete fonts/dingbat fonts

[Nicolas Spalinger]

> I don't see why a font that covered only certain symbol blocks --
> Dingbats, chess symbols, mathematical operators, or otherwise-- should
> not be allowed on OFLB.  In the future one will be able to search for
> fonts meeting certain criteria -- such as covering a specific
> orthographic block -- so as long as such fonts are properly constructed
> (i.e. have a Unicode CMAP) and can be properly categorized in the site's
> database, why not?

I think Ed make a very good point.

And decorative fonts can be tagged/classified as such.

Also fonts are fonts and cliparts are cliparts.
OCAL and OFLB may share the same hosting engine but goals, policies and
formats are different.


> Best - Ed



-- 
Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer
Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary
http://planet.open-fonts.org


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