Adobe releases source code for OpenType font-development tools

Adobe made a surprise announcement at the annual ATypI conference in Barcelona, Spain, releasing one of the company's proprietary font-production tools under an open-source license. In addition, the team convinced another popular font-development project to release its core library as open source, too. Adobe framed the release as a move designed to help improve the quality of fonts produced with any application, but there may be other benefits as well—such as increasing the spread of Adobe's own open fonts. Up until now, those fonts have not been redistributable by many other free-software projects, precisely because the production tools needed to build them remained closed.

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