[OpenFontLibrary] A preview of the fonts on OFL (includes a backup of nearly all fonts and a way to download them)

[Nicolas Spalinger]

Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 21:27 +0100, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> [...]
>> I hate to rain on this parade but seriously, I don't think this is such
>> a good idea at all!
>>
>> I doubt your automatically produced deb or rpm is up to the standards to
>> become part of a distro archive.
> 
> Depends on the distribution :-) but the current standard is
> "not there at all" for most distributions.
> 
> We've been over 500 years without previews on the OLFB site (well, OK,
> less if you count from when the project started).
> Let's not let a desire for excellent prevent the useful...

Sure but I prefer slow than sloppy.

Getting the previews working and doing monthly releases are not the same
thing.

> What's needed to get font previews on the OLFB site in, say, the
> next week or so? Who can help with it? What skills are needed?
> 
> Liam
> 


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