Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 13, 2012 21:19 UTC (Mon) by alonz (subscriber, #815)
In reply to: Adobe ventures into open fonts by n8willis
Parent article: Adobe ventures into open fonts

(I know, replying a week late isn't conductive to discussion...)

I did look at the project page; and what I saw was a list of milestones with dates in the deep past, with no progress in months. In fact, the latest release was on September 2011 – and it was supposed to be just the middle of the first stage of development (a second stage hadn't even started).

To me, this project certainly seems to be pushing up the daisies.

Adobe ventures into open fonts

Posted Aug 14, 2012 15:41 UTC (Tue) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041) [Link]

But Ubuntu is not Dalton Maag's sole client. If you follow the foundry's blog, for most of this year they've been doing a major project for Nokia and one for the 2016 Olympics.

Since the monospace was released and the initial script set was done, adding a new language or a new face/weight is likely to be something that they'd only tackle on a periodic basis between other projects. I have no idea if there are additional scripts that the company has agreed to take on, or if that's something that they revisit with Canonical. The issue tracker on Launchpad was largely the purview of Paul Sladen, and I believe he's off doing other things. Neither of things equates to the font "pushing up daisies"; I would hardly think things like continually adding extra weights just to be doing something would be worth the time.

So you may not see a whole new face added again until someone comes up with a different use case (like one cut for extra-small point sizes, if Canonical decides the existing one doesn't jive with mobile devices or whatever). But who knows; DM could surprise us with a full "Extended" face next week.

Nate