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Welcome to the Open Font Library project's wiki!
This wiki has a new theme, in preparation to the new design of the main site. Please tell us what you think!
This wiki aims to become a central repository of trivia about libre/open fonts, and collaborative type design. If you want to write about something that is not strictly related to the Open Font Library project, but is related to redistributable and modifiable fonts, your contributions are welcome!
Due to spam, directly anonymous editing has been disabled, but the user "username" with the password "password" allows it; please login as that user, and then visit the login page again to create your own account.
Lively discussions of this project and surrounding issues happen on our mailing list, IRC channel and blogs - please see the community section for details.
Eventually, wiki pages are turned into pages on the main Open Font Library website by our core team. As their wiki page counterparts develop, those pages are updated. If you feel its time for a main site page to be updated, make a suggestion on the mailing list!
Priority Tasks
Priority tasks for developing the site are listed on the OFLB TODO list, and here are some on-going priority tasks for this wiki:
- Search the web for Existing_Libre/Open_Fonts and add them to our list!
- Think up ideas for the project and add them to the Roadmap!
- Write a step-by-step guide on how to install FontForge from release versions, for all platforms
- Write a step-by-step guide on how to apply the OFL to a new font
- Make a sample image for the sample images page - a 10 minute job!
Participate: Create new libre/open Fonts and add them the Open Font Library! See the Font Design page for tips!
Information
Community
Here are direct links to our community forums - please see the community page for full details.
- Mailing list
- ##fonts
- Community Blog
- Individuals Blogs
Open Font Library Specifications
- Submission Guidelines -- a simple checklist to guide your font submissions.
- Font Formats -- technical description of formats
- Font Design -- how to design fonts
- Font Packaging -- what to include in an archive/package that contains fonts, file name conventions, etc.
- Font Categorisation -- which font characteristics (style, family, etc) to include for each font.
- Font Licensing -- which Free Software licenses are suitable for fonts.
Development
The development is currently happening on a staging server where you can see the next version of the site - please join the mailing list and ask for more details.
- Developer Management How to get SVN access and where
- SVN - How to work with our source code repository
- SVG Fonts
Discussion
People
Feel free to add yourself to this list!
- Jon Phillips
- Benji Park
- Bryce Harrington
- Nicu Buculei
- Alexandre Prokoudine
- Simos Xenitellis
- Dave Crossland
- Raph Levien
- Victor Gaultney
- Karl Berry
- James Kilfiger
- Ben Weiner
- Nicolas Spalinger
- George Williams
- Eric Schrijver
External Resources
- Software -- useful applications for design, conversion, tweaking, etc.
- Knowledge -- things to know concerning type design, and font technology.
- Related Projects
- Education -- where you can study typeface design at a design school
- Books -- book recommendations on typeface design and font development