[FC-discuss] Free our home page

[Luke Taylor]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 14/01/10 19:22, Brian Rowe wrote:
> > > Licensing fonts is also a very interesting issue.  Are fonts a form of
> > > typeface outside of copyrights control or are the copyrightable? Is the
> > > license a contract not back by copyright? I think that Adobe and I might
> > > disagree on this issue.
> > >
> > Adobe are licencing you copyrighted software, so the disagreement would
> > have to be about the ethics of that rather than about the legality of
> > it. ;-)
> >
> > > But either way I would rather use something clearly marked libre or make
> > a
> > > stand on font freedom over getting special permission for just the org.
> > >
> >
> > Yes. See here for lots of good Free fonts -
> >
> > http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
> > http://openfontlibrary.org/
> >
> > - Rob.

I feel fairly strongly that we ought to adopt a libre font for our webpage, I have had a quick look around for a suitable replacement and haven't seen any (I emphasise quick - I will keep looking) but might a good idea be to have a libre font design competition? The chapters could each have a vote and the winner could get a T-shirt with their font in action on the front or something. I have no skills in font making but I will give it a go if we have the competition. In case all the entries are well... shit... we could always enter p22 as a candidate in the competition as well. Does anybody agree?
Luke 		 	   		  
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