When budget is limited and time is short: PoDoFo tiling + wallpaper glue + NotCourierSans to the rescue!
Clementine mounts the Constant
Verlag colophon for its launch last
night in 17 Rue de la Senne
Articles by Femke 
Spinning SVG
Can't help but re-blog: friend & neighbour Michael Murtaugh is experimenting with SVG animation, using svgweb to make this cat spin :-)
We will get to know the machine and we will understand
Before starting a fresh new OSP-season, first a post long due:
This conversation with Juliane de Moerlooze was recorded March 2009 in the context of Female Icons, a project by De Geuzen but I think OSP-readers might like to read it as well?
“when you hear people talk about women …
Legal Soup
1. Unlimited Use License
Judging from the mysql errors flying around, the Open Records Generator software developed by David Reinfurt, is not actively maintained at the moment. Still, this GPL licensed software presents an interesting mix of buyers and users: "The buyer receives full rights to modify and reuse the …
Libre Fonts
The Open Font Library is preparing a brand new site (an idea of what's in store: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki) and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?
Free Fonts sounds nice, but risks to blur with …A Postcard from Stuttgart
I'm in Stuttgart for a week to teach a workshop. In the school library, I read Eye Magazine.
The current issue A New Golden Age? has many familiar observations about the way typography is going through exciting times. Sybille Hagman brings up typography as teamwork and the need to divide …
seamful
"Open Source doesn't mean free access, nor open space or open air; it presumes a seamful approach to design as a response to the increasing reliance on technology and its accessibility"
New work on Fonts at W3C
Chris Lilley writes: "W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly archived …
Even when you are done, you are not done
A conversation with Chris Lilley
Almost a year ago at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008, OSP sat down with Chris Lilley on a small patch of grass in front of the Technical University in Wroclaw, Poland. Warmed up by the early May sun, we talked about the way standards are …
Jeffrey Zeldman on Open Source and the web
Under the ambitious title 'Jeffrey Zeldman Discusses the Future of Open Source' (filed under: 'The Internet'), the CSS guru compares the use of Open Source Content Management Systems to what webstandards did for the web. Looking forward to hear more... and will he mention SVG?
Excerpt from a longer interview …
