As you might have gathered from Thomas Phinney's latest comment on our post The Status of Utopia, Adobe will not re-release Utopia under an Open Font License. It doesn't mean though the font cannot be studied, copied, modified and distributed: "Although changing the license would make it easier for folks …
The status of Utopia
On October 11, 2006 Adobe granted members of the Tex User Group the right to use, modify and distribute the Utopia typeface:Adobe Systems Incorporated ("Adobe") hereby grants to the TeX Users Group and its members a nonexclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to the typeface software for the Utopia Regular, Utopia …Mathematics, fonts, free and money
In a déjà old interview (2000) by Advogato, Donald Knuth (TeX and Metafont author) answers in his sometimes-very-short sometimes-generous style. In the middle of these all interesting things, a few exchanges about relations between mathematics, fonts, free and money. Enough close to some parts of talks at Wroclaw, like the …
Typeface in the making: W Drogę
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David Bargenda's photos: http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/
With a group of 20 courageous participants and the help of open type activists Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas Spalinger we are using Inkscape, Gimp and FontForge to produce a typeface in …
Looking for F, Q, X and H
On our way from Berlin to Wroclaw, OSP managed to photograph almost every letter in the Polish roadsignage alphabet. We are preparing for the Local Universal workshop and still looking for F, Q, X and H (capital + lower case). If you happen to come across one, please send us a …DIN 4
Pandora's Standardised Box
Kommando OSP Pierre and Harrisson spent a few days this February in Berlin to explore the DIN project further.
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The starting point was that we wanted to design an open format DIN font, based on the …
To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland
We
nearly missed our train back to Brussels while meeting Dave Crossland.
At the station we talked about the history of font editing software,
about the 'free font movement' and everything that could become possible
once fonts and font editing software are free. We were also excited
about how (and …Free Operations
2 day workshop
Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007)What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations?
Full brief:
Design could not exist without a larger eco system of cultural works around it. Even …
OSP @ Werkplaats Typografie
OSP visits Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (The Netherlands) to discuss a two-day workshop on Free Fonts with Anniek Brattinga and Karel Martens. http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org
Inconsolata
One of our Rotterdam reporters made us notice Inconsolata, a monospaced font designed by Ghostscript maintainer Raph Levien. Levien offers an OTF version, plus 'raw' fontforge files on his webpage.
First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's …