Discussion:
more font categories for OFL
Manuel Schmalstieg
2013-04-11 23:32:02 UTC
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Hey list,

After discussion this afternoon at LGM Madrid with Nathan and Dave, I have
the following proposal for the OpenFontLibrary website: let's add more
categories! More precisely, the common categories used by AtypI (VOX-ATypI
classification) as well as the British Standards Classification of
Typefaces (BS 2961:1967). More details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox-ATypI_classification

What's currently on the website:

Blackletter · 4
Dingbat · 12
Display · 38
Handwriting · 39
Monospaced · 12
Sans-serif · 63
Serif · 54

What should be therefore added:

Humanist Serif (or Humanist Classical)
Garalde (examples: EB Garamond, Crimson, Sorts Mill Goudy)
Transitional (example: Open Baskerville)
Didone (example: ADF Berenis)
Mechanistic or Slab Serif (example: Le Patin Helvete)
Grotesque (example: Lil Grotesk)
Neo-grotesque (examples: Chivo, Karla, News Cycle)
Geometric (examples: Futura Renner, Didact Gothic, Tex Gyre Adventor)
Humanist Sans-serif (or Humanist Lineal) (examples: DejaVu, Lato)
From what we understand, those categories are hardcoded into the system,
and must therefore be added by someone with access to the php files.

What do you think, wouldn't that be neat?

Best,
Manuel | Greyscale Publishing
Dave Crossland
2013-04-11 23:56:21 UTC
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Here is the contents of the pad from the LGM at http://piratepad.net/9yWPMBaJWE


Open Font Library Catalog-a-thon @ LGM 2013
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People Present
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seamlessly on documents!

Right now, the OFLB catalog contains 222 fonts at
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/catalogue
Step One
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Collecting our knowledge of where libre/open fonts are that we don't
currently have in the collection.
**Please add to these lists!**
Existing List
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The list on this OFLB page:
http://openfontlibrary.org/en/guidebook/existing_libre_open_fonts
Other large collections
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* Google Web Fonts
* FontSquirrel
* League of Movable Type
* SIL
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html
...these are big enough that they need to be treated separately
Smaller or personal foundries
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OSP
Greek Font Society
http://tipometar.org/indexEng.html (public domain, but not OFL license)
http://www.marca.unb.br/fontesunb.php
http://www.fontspace.com/gluk/itsadzoke
http://code.google.com/p/istok/
http://www.ousia.tk/GrandjeanBaskerville-Regular.sfd.bz2
http://code.google.com/p/sortsmill/
http://code.google.com/p/cave9
http://www.grafikfritze.de/?p=43
http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/
http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/tagesschrift/
http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo/fonts/Vollkornnudeln.ttf
http://www.ams.org/tex/amsfonts.html
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=107153
http://arthurreeder.deviantart.com/art/Open-Comic-Font-92530119
http://myfox.deviantart.com/art/LONDON-2012-Font-96042802
http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/12/25/2238030/Jameel%20Noori%20Nastaleeq%202.rar
http://betatype.com/node/36
http://www.ubuntu-art.org/content/show.php?content=84788
https://launchpad.net/ubuntutitle
http://sourceforge.net/projects/serafettin/
http://hiran.in/blog/rufscript-font
http://code.google.com/p/osifont/
http://serafettin.sourceforge.net/
http://www.ecofont.eu/downloads_en.html
ftp://ftp.dvo.ru/pub/Font/heuristica/
http://www.tug.org/fonts/
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/fonts.html
http://thibault.org/fonts/
http://www.dafont.com/author.php?author=660
http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontguide/
http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/
http://tavmjong.free.fr/FONTS
http://tug.org/fonts/utopia
http://linuxlibertine.sourceforge.net/
http://monafont.sourceforge.net/index-e.html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font
http://fpf.sourceforge.net/cms/
http://groups.msn.com/Manchu
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hittitefont
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype
http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/roadstencil-fonts/
http://fixedsys.moviecorner.de/
http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html
http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/theano.html
http://lists.altlinux.org/pipermail/fonts-devel/2006-May/000091.html
http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/
http://james.kilfiger.googlepages.com/
http://www.theory.org/~strthrwr/fonts/free/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont/
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/
http://www.i18nguy.com/unicode/unicode-font.html
http://junicode.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cm-unicode/
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/gavindi/
http://www.ekushey.org/?page/otf_bangla_fonts
http://www.geocities.com/hartke01/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/sjfonts
http://www.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/fonts.html
http://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts
General lists
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http://embraceubuntu.com/2007/05/21/300-easily-installed-free-fonts-for-ubuntu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_source_typefaces
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs/Fonts/Triaging/Pipeline/WishList
http://duffy.fedorapeople.org/fonts
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Where_can_I_get_good_fonts?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Packaged_fonts
http://www.debian-art.org/index.php?xcontentmode=39
http://typophile.com/node/60433
http://cg.scs.carleton.ca/~luc/original2fonts.html?keepThis=true&TB_iframe=true
Instructions for uploaders
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http://openfontlibrary.org/en/guidebook/submission_guidelines
What is required?

1+ Binary Font File (We want simply the most up-to-date OTF or TTF)

LICENSE.txt or OFL.txt (copyright notice and license)

FONTLOG.txt (documenting the release)

What is optional?

Source files

Web-optimized files (WOFF, SVG, OET)

Image

What should be in the FONTLOG?

SIL OFL FAQ says:

A brief header describing the FONTLOG itself and name of the font family

Basic Font Information - description of the font family, purpose and breadth

ChangeLog - chronological listing of changes

Acknowledgements - list of authors and contributors with contact information

It could also include other sections, such as: where to find
documentation, how to make contributions, information on contributing
organizations, source code details, and a short design guide.

Show a real example:
TODO
IDEA: Other information that could be added to a FONTLOG is

TODO

How to find relevant metadata?

With a font manager

With fontforge

With showttf

With ttx

Future Development
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IDEA: Write PHP to parse FONTLOG files, similar to the README file
parsing of wordpress plugins, where information from README is
displayed on the plugin page at wordpress.org.
Reference implementation of a README is at
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/about/readme.txt and they can
include an (optional) "Donate Link", which can lead to Paypal page, a
flattr page, a Gittip page...
Rafael Bastide: We could use my unified font structure project I
present tomorrow,
https://github.com/raphaelbastide/Unified-Typeface-Design/
davelab6: The font source repo idea needs three things to be fully realised:
1. Font Source Repo Specification
2. Font Source Repo Reference Implementation
3. Unit Tests that check an implementation matches the specification
OFLB can then become a great visual catalog for a list of git repos
that follow the MUST items in the specification.
I am developing http://github.com/xen/bakery - a Continuous
Integration server for fonts, that will help to automate the
implementation of SHOULD items in the specification, such as by
prompting the user to create them directly in the browser, or by
generating them from prior MUST/SHOULD items.

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