[Clipart] SVG font

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Fri Jul 1 13:45:54 PDT 2005


On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 09:04 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > Hmmm...I guess we could register Open Font Library
> > (www.openfontlibrary.org) and then just start shuffling fonts that
> > direction. I've thought the same about getting the domain name
> > www.openmedialibrary.org.
> > 
> > In terms of time output, I don't think we have time to maintain these
> > but maybe it would be a good idea to get the names. Thoughts?
> 
> Indeed, I think we will not have the time to work on these (I personally 
> am NOT interested very much in fonts right now), but it will be cool to 
> have the domains registered, because the names are good and this will 
> prevent some bad guys to hijack them. They look like good candidates for 
> future use of our DMS.

Agree...no time, but registering would be good.

> Also I think we should NOT reject the fonts for Benji, because this will 
> discourage him and other possible free font creators, we should accept 
> them and keep them somewhere (a directory on OCAL, the single item on 
> openfontlibrary.org).

Agree...where should we put them?

> Having this font as a starting point, is possible this will generate 
> interest in other contributors.

I hope so...I really hope that having some SVG fonts will drive dev. for
Inkscape.

Jon


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