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 …
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 …
Two projects to submit fonts to, or find others to work with:
Typeforge
http://www.typeforge.net
The Typeforge project was initiated by Portuguese type designer Pedro Amado, to create a platform for "open source collaborative type design". You are encouraged to share sketches, notes and ideas and work on …
Invalidity Division, sounds like science-fiction, doesn't it? Registered community design is not bad either. Time to start a jargon file...
[...]this time the dispute is over fonts; specifically Segoe, one of the typefaces Microsoft wants to use in Vista (the new Windows, "bringing clarity to your world"). Microsoft filed its …
The open source font Gentium and The SIL Open Font License are both developed and distributed by S.I.L., also known as The Summer Institute for Linguistics, apparently a subsidiary of the Wicliffe Bible Translators. S.I.L. has developed large-scale ethno-linguistic research projects such as http://www.ethnologue …
[check The politics of typography before applying SIL-OFL]
The SIL-OFL is a free license specifically developed for (multi-lingual)
fonts. These are the four freedoms guaranteed through the Open Font
License (similar to other Free licenses):
* Use: the freedom to use font software for any purpose. (freedom
0)
* Study and adaptation …
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 …
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 …
[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 …
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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