[OpenFontLibrary] [Press] Launching the Open Font Library and Freeing Fonts

[jon at rejon.org]

Hi all, we pushed out the press today on the Open Font Library! Please
spread the word, get involved, help fund development!

Rock on! Hats off to Christopher Adams and Dave Crossland on this
project majorly and all the font contributors already!!!

Jon


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Montreal, May 12, 2011 - At the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in
Montreal, the Open Font Library, the Open Font Library community and
Fabricatorz launch an online library of fonts that all type designers
and font enthusiasts may participate in. The goal of the Open Font
Library is to offer great fonts, help designers share their work,
accelerate the usage of the @font-face tag available in modern web
browsers, and to help educate everyone about how to design and use
fonts.

The Font Library website is under active development, with the mission
to bring online a veritable library of fonts to be made available
under free licenses, including the SIL Open Font License, Creative
Commons Zero license, and the GPLv3 with font exception license.

Fabricatorz developer Christopher Adams led the development of the
site on the company's Aiki Framework. "Today marks a crucial milestone
in the lifetime of the Open Font Library, from its initial conception
in 2006 to its finalized public release in 2011," said Adams. "Our
goal for the Font Library is not only to assemble a large collection
of fonts, but to highlight quality free fonts and help others get
involved in making this the best public library of fonts."

The Open Font Library received sponsorship and direction from Dave
Crossland and the Google Fonts team. Other major contributors to the
project include Alexandre Prokoudine, Ben Weiner, Ed Trager, Eric
Schrijver, James Weiner, Jon Phillips, Nicolas Spalinger, and Robert
Martinez, who developed the Open Font Library logo. Initial patrons to
the project include River Valley Technologies, TeX Users Group and Yes
Logic. The Font Library has also benefited tremendously from input by
participants at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2011.

The Open Font Librarians and the Fabricatorz, the global open
production company, are actively seeking sponsorship and contracts to
support the development of the Open Font Library towards a 1.0 release
by the end of 2011. With sponsorship, there are active plans to
integrate version control support for fonts on the site, allow for
direct editing of fonts on the site, identify incomplete font designs
and actively provide solutions, and integrate social web features into
the project. More advanced features like API support for uploading and
downloading fonts become possible for each additional patron who
offers their support.

"The Fabricatorz stand ready to help build the world's largest
collection of fonts," said Fabricatorz and Open Clip Art Library
founder, Jon Phillips. With your support, use of the Library's fonts,
and spreading the news of the project, the Open Font LIbrary is
certain to reach this goal."


About Open Font Library

The mission of the Open Font Library (http://openfontlibrary.org) is
to promote your freedom as it relates to fonts. All of the typefaces
contained in the library are available under a free license, which
gives you the freedom to use, study, remix and share each and every
font. The site is powered by the Aiki Framework
(http://aikiframework.org), a powerful web framework for building
network services using the AGPL license.


About Fabricatorz

The Fabricatorz (http://fabricatorz.com) is a “open” production
company that makes successful  projects from start to finish,
including development and community  management. We specialize in Free
and Open Source Software, Creative Commons technology,  growing
on-line and off-line communities in San Francisco, China and  the Arab
World. Our core focus is in developing software using Aiki  Framework,
hardware using Qi Hardware, and community-building around the
philosophies of Sharism.


For More Information

* http://openfontlibrary.org
* http://aikiframework.org
* http://fabricatorz.com


Press Contact

Christopher Adams press at fabricatorz.com
+1.415.830.3884 San Francisco + China


Blog Post

* http://ur1.ca/45s7o

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