-------- Message transféré -------- De: Gustavo Ferreira À: fedora-fonts-list-request Sujet: the ivory tower and the bazaar Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:38:59 -0300 On Jul 20, 2008, at 2:50 PM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > If the free/open font scene was striving Red Hat needn't have > shelled a > lot of money to a closed foundry like Ascender. Or the GNOME > Foundation > needn't have done the same with Bitstream for Vera. Experience > shows it > is very possible to extend a font with little coverage to more than > decent one but it requires making a lot of noise around unfinished > font > cores with correct licensing to get someone interested. And you don't > get there via traditionnal ivory tower isolated font designer > workflow. i have yet to see one good, original, well-made typeface developed in the bazaar way. can you name one? also, please don't be ungrateful to the "isolated ivory-tower designer workflow", since it has produced the best foss-fonts out there. i challenge the "free & open font crowd" to promote free/open fonts on the basis of their typographic quality, without appealing to below- the-belt demonization of "proprietary designers" and "proprietary tools". > Teams was released in 2000 by TopTeam. It took 8 years before someone > picked it up and started updating it (Edrip). Have Debian (and other > distributions, sadly Fedora not included) wasted their time by > publishing Teams for 8 years in its poor state? If they hadn't I > strongly suspect Edrip would not have happened. > > We're seeding our future. Those things take time, a lot of time. > And the > future will happen faster if people stop putting their heads in the > sand, wasting time on proprietary fonts or font tools, and get to > work. > During this year's LGM a concerted effort created a new nicely > licensed > font from an old fossilizing one in a few days. Just a few years ago > this would have been complete science fiction. do you mean NotCourier Sans? i don't dislike the result, but let's be honest about it -- chopping off serifs from an existing font is not really type-design... cheers, - gustavo. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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