[OpenFontLibrary] Downloadable fonts

[Chris Lilley]

On Thursday, June 17, 2010, 9:15:15 PM, Robert wrote:

RM> On 06/17/2010 01:39 PM, Chris Lilley wrote:
>> On Thursday, June 17, 2010, 1:02:01 AM, Robert wrote:

>> RM>  Hi,

>> RM>  Is it just me or does google somehow fail to provide download links to
>> RM>  their fonts?
>> RM>  I like their initiativeand all, but wouldn't it be legally correct and
>> RM>  socially welcome to upload the fonts to OFLB.org?

>> RM>  They _really_ want people to use their API. It seems.

>> 1) install mercurial
>> 2) hg clone https://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ googlefontdirectory
>> 3) ???
>> 4) profit

>>    
RM> Nice!  I can browse that folder with Firefox.

RM> Maybe I'm a bit demanding, but I'm a fan of:

RM> 1) download font
RM> 2) profit

Ideal, if there is a single font.

If there are 16 directories each containing ten to 20 files though, one command that does it all seems to me preferable to ten minutes of laborious right-click-and-save on each individual file.

And one could of course just link to the font in-place without downloading it first; especially if one has a short memory of "free for anyone to use" fonts being pulled some years later. First thing I did when I heard of the initiative was to read the license, then download my own copy.

RM> OFLB should be my buddy when it comes to avoid having to install 
RM> mercurial just to get "free" fonts. 

I see Dave answered that one in the affirmative already.



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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Technical Director, Interaction Domain
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG