Due to my recent task of teaching typography, I was looking around for
courses and experiences in that domain. This drove me to Ellen Lupton's
website, teacher at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA):
www.designwritingresearch.org.
There, in an impressive generosity, you can consult her current syllabi
and exercices …
Kaffeesatz + Tagesschrift
Kaffeeschrift was developed by Jan Gerner from Dresden for use in menus etc., hence the monospaced figures. It works well for titles and headers, but was not designed for longer texts (though it holds out surprisingly well)Download and try out here: http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/
Tagesschrift is …Freie Schriften im Portrait
For those who read German, type designer and -critic Gerrit van Aaken published quite a few well-researched essays on familiar open source typefaces such as Gentium and Vera plus a few surprises such as Kaffeesatz and Union (not under an open licence, but distributed by the Danish government for use …
Domestic manners
Domestic Manners, by Dustin Norlander.
"This font is basically my handwritting. Why anyone would want to use my crappy handwritting for anything, I can't say. It would be a good way to forge a note from me I guess. Anyway, use it for whatever you want …
Don't keep it to yourself!
http://www.orgdot.com/aliasfonts/
(c) 2001 http://www.orgdot.com: you can copy, use, modify and distribute this code and/or artwork for educational, commercial or recreational use.
All we ask is that you include this copyright notice in the material you distribute. for compiled code, you will need …Fonts for human beings
The "user-friendly" distribution Ubuntu is distributing its font under the LGPL. I have not heard the same from other distributions. It seems that Redhat or Novell do not want to share their corporate identity with the rest of us. Ubuntu's founder Mark Shuttleworth, who sold his company Thawte(a company …
Alpha font
Most amazing font so far, the Alphabetum font, for ancient languages. It is now possible to compose text with languages that disappeared 5000 years ago. I have to say all my respect for such a nice and usefull work! Thanks from university researchers that had to redraw all archeologic inscriptions …
Linux Libertine font project
The Libertine family font contains around 1500 "western" caracters among which cyrillic, greek, turkish and so on. The font looks classical, between Baskerville and Caslon style. The general impression is a contemporary looking 19th century font. Hints are good looking above 8 points, and is comfortable on screen. Good typography …
Gentium
[If you consider using Gentium, check The politics of typography]
"Gentium was driven by the need for a free, attractive, legible, high-quality font for extended Latin (and Greek and Cyrillic) use. Nothing else was available that was suitable for publishing use, so I decided to give it a try." (from …
Bitstream Charter
To my surprise Bitstream Charter, one of the few usable Open Source fonts around I know of, is currently published on myfonts.com with the following licence: http://www.myfonts.com/viewlicense?id=315
Florian Cramer explains what is really going on:
"That's true, but the license change refers to …
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