[OpenFontLibrary] openfontlibrary.org - change request

[Ben Weiner]

Hi Ben

Yes, it would be good to allow contributors to add custom sample text.

There is some 'awareness' of character sets on the font page. Under the 'Files' heading, below the list of stats, there's a link labelled 'Show details'. Ordinarily you'd see the stats for characters in various common character sets. I think your font file has taken things beyond what this can cope with - and its support is pretty good ;-)

Ed Trager could shed more light if he is listening in ;-)

Ben

On 6 Oct 2010, at 10:45, Ben Griffin wrote:

> Hi there folks,
> I notice that the font page (and notably the sample text) is not aware of the characters supported by the font in question.
> Obviously, for those fonts which deal with code pages that are far away from Latin, that's not very useful; most of the work that I do is far away from Latin.
> 
> Could the authors not allow for a font maintainer to provide several example strings that demonstrate the font in question?
> 
> On another note, but from the same place, the Description text and the FontLog text appear to be fixed with the site's design, which is fair enough. However rather than have 'bold'/'italic' etc. as text editorial options, why not at least add a 'thefontinquestion' modifier, so that the Description text may show off examples, features etc. of the font that is being mentioned.
> 
> This comes particularly into focus when looking at http://openfontlibrary.org/files/Ben_Griffin/286
> The only way in which to =see= what the font does is to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and see a small represenatation of  the submitted example jpg!

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