Best practices for designing – releasing – maintaining – packaging open fonts

Nicolas Spalinger Openfont Play (22min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

Best practices for designing, releasing, maintaining and packaging open fonts. A review of dos and don’ts based on real world examples and community experiences. Various tips and tools for authors, designers and contributors to open font projects to Do The Right Thing in the complicated area of open fonts.

• http://planet.open-fonts.org
• http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
• http://pkg-fonts.alioth.debian.org
• https://launchpad.net/~fonts

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