fonts June 2010

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From VFB to UFO to TrueType?
by Paul Flo Williams 05 Aug '10

05 Aug '10

Several of the League of Movable Type faces are mentioned on the Fonts Wishlist, with caveats that they should be built from source. In this case, the source is VFB, FontLab's format. In order to go from here to OTF, we must apparently package RoboFab, according to the advice on the wiki pages, so we can export UFO using RoboFab, and feed this into FontForge. However, I've just taken a look at RoboFab, and I can't see a way in which it can be used to export UFO from a VFB file without having FontLab installed. You can certainly go from TTF or Type 1 to UFO, but going from VFB requires that FontLab has already loaded the VFB. Firstly, has anyone examined RoboFab more closely and can tell me that I'm missing something? Or alternatively, would it be OK to package the TLOMT fonts with OTFs in their zips without going from source?

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Proggy Tiny Slashed Zero font
by Bojan Smojver 28 Jun '10

28 Jun '10

Would there be interest in packaging this up for Fedora? The licence of the font appears to allow redistribution (it looks a bit like a simple BSD or MIT licence to me). This font (among others) is here: http://proggyfonts.com/ -- Bojan

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Opening up of various fonts by google
by Hans de Goede 27 Jun '10

27 Jun '10

Hi all, I noticed Google has recently launched its google font directory. As part of this they have negotiated the opening up of various previous not completely open fonts. Here a list of fonts which we have not yet packaged, and which are not on the wishlist either: Cantarell by Dave Crossland (4 variants) http://abattis.org/cantarell/ Cardo by David Perry http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/cardo/ This one is interesting in that it is intended for studies of old (religious) books and thus contains a lot of scripts Crimson Text by Sebastian Kosch http://aldusleaf.org/ IM Fell by Igino Marini (10 families) http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/felltypes Digitization of various 17th century fonts Josefin Sans Std Light by Santiago Orozco http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/josefin/ Lobster by Pablo Impallari http://www.impallari.com/lobster/ Hand written font with various ligatures for better connecting of letters. Molengo by Denis Jacquerye http://code.google.com/p/molengo-fonts/ Nobile by Vernon Adams (4 variants) http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/nobile/ OFL Sorts Mill Goudy TT by Barry Schwartz (2 variants) http://code.google.com/p/sortsmill/downloads/list Reenie Beanie by James Grieshaber http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/reeniebeanie/ Tangerine by Toshi Omagari http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/tangerine/ Vollkorn by Friedrich Althausen (2 variants) http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/vollkorn/ Regards, Hans

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Re: Not packaging Epigrafica
by Paul Flo Williams 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

John Stracke wrote: > On 06/21/2010 07:20 AM, Paul Flo Williams wrote: >> If there aren't, Epigrafica would need to be fixed by going into >> FontForge >> and getting it to rebuild all the affected characters (Ctrl+Shift+A on >> each one? I don't know whether there's a command that will do this >> wholesale). > I think this Python script will do it. Thanks John, I'll try that. I've spoken to Antonis, and my first thoughts about FontForge perhaps not reading the old SFD format were wrong. The pre-built fonts, PFB and TrueType, in the Epigrafica-for-Screen.zip archive also show the problem, so some characters were always incorrect. The second caveat to come out of this, which I haven't yet added to the wiki, is that the delivered fonts should be in OpenType (CFF) format, as there are subtle curves in the font that the TrueType conversion would destroy. (That's direct from Antonis.)

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Not packaging Epigrafica
by Paul Flo Williams 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

This is just a heads up to anyone who might be thinking of packaging Epigrafica, which is on the Fonts Wishlist. I've added a short form of this information as a caveat to the wiki page. Packaging for Epigrafica has started and stalled twice before, so I had a quick look yesterday to see if it would be an easy win. Unfortunately, it seems not. The Epigrafica sources were released in March 2007, as SFD version 1 files. Around the same time, FontForge bumped the version format to 2, and subsequently to version 3. FontForge will import the Epigrafica sources without complaint, but it does the wrong thing with characters that are compositions of base and diacritics. If you fancy having a look, import Epigrafica Ortha (Regular) and look at U+1E71. It should be a small t with circumflex below, but comes out as small t with capital R below. FontForge doesn't complain about mad combinations, so it wasn't at all obvious that the generated font was only partially usable! I'll ask the author, Antonis Tsolomitis, whether there are any newer versions of the sources. If there aren't, Epigrafica would need to be fixed by going into FontForge and getting it to rebuild all the affected characters (Ctrl+Shift+A on each one? I don't know whether there's a command that will do this wholesale). Since Epigrafica's main feature over the family it forked from, MgOpen Cosmetica, is the much larger set of characters with diacritics, there is no point in packaging Epigrafica until this is fixed.

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typesupply.com
by Behdad Esfahbod 20 Jun '10

20 Jun '10

Hi Font SIG, Has anyone tried any of the tools here: http://code.typesupply.com/ Was wondering if there's useful bits we should have packaged in Fedora. Cheers, behdad

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xgridfit updated to 2.2a in fedora-devel
by Nicolas Mailhot 06 Jun '10

06 Jun '10

Hi all, xgridfit has been bumped to 2.2a in fedora-devel/rawhide. This version includes major changes (python, xml namespaces, registering in system xml catalogs), so if you use xgridfit please check it still works for you. It seems good enough for Heuristica, but other fonts may use different xgridfit bits Regards, -- Nicolas Mailhot

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Fonts for professional presentations
by Raphael Pereira de Faria 04 Jun '10

04 Jun '10

Hi all Does anyone recommend nice fonts for presentations? I`ve found this one: http://www.slideshare.net/eig/agile-software-development I dont know its name, but is pretty elegant. Does anyone know what font it is? Thank you

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