Open source casts new mold for type design (News.com)
Posted Jul 12, 2006 8:22 UTC (Wed) by
yosch (guest, #4675)
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Open source casts new mold for type design (News.com)
Great article. Congratulations to the Dejavu team for their work.
There's certainly a lot of good things happening in fontland these days!
An open font design community is forming and a growing number of high quality free/libre/open fonts are being released. These fonts are a great milestone in the efforts to make the free desktop much more multilingual.
Check out http://unifont.org/fontguide/ and http://scripts.sil.org/OFL_fonts
The Ubuntu community is working on various specs around fonts:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenFonts
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FontManagement
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FontDesignToolkit
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