Open Revival
“With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for setting vast quantities of text, and of which an even smaller number are available to be freely distributed and shared.”
The Open Baskerville project is an attempt to collaboratively re-create a high quality revival of Baskerville, ultimately available under an Open Font License or GPL. The project has an issue tracker and all font source files are available via a repository. You can add a missing glyph or adjust the kerning; the site at http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/ explains in detail how this works, and why the initiators ended up using the 1913 Stephenson, Blake specimen. A suivre!
Thanks nitrofurano for reminding us 🙂
5 Comments ↓
1. nitrofurano
Feb 23, 2009 at 11:03 pm
You’re welcome! And thanks talking about this project here in constantvzw.org webpage! =)
2. Open Baskerville project : Calcyum - Infographie open source
Mar 3, 2009 at 12:35 pm
[…] Via Open source publishing. […]
3. Simon Pascal Klein
Jun 19, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Hey, thanks for promoting this. I have been busy with uni at the detriment of working on this project but intend to make a comeback to it. I’m of course always on the lookout for any interested type designers in joining. (:
Kind regards.
—Pascal
4. nitrofurano
Jun 21, 2009 at 1:16 am
This idea about helping on ofl typefaces based on public domain master drawings or catalogs is really exciting – the ammount of typefaces made before 1939 is not that small (everything before it seems to be public domain, isn’t it?), and seeing all stored/linked (accessible) in just one place would be awesome – would be great a project just for helping, holding and promoting them. Thanks http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/Existing_Libre/Open_Fonts i started http://pastebin.com/f21ce3de5 and http://pastebin.com/f18278f9c (svg and sfd of the ATF Garamond catalog, 1925)
5. nitrofurano
Jun 21, 2009 at 3:14 am
tried to organize a small list: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki/PublicDomainTypefacesTimeline