{"id":2910,"date":"2009-06-07T10:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=2910"},"modified":"2009-06-07T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T11:51:23","slug":"libre-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/foundry_blog\/fonts-foundry\/libre-fonts","title":{"rendered":"Libre Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/openfontlibrary.org\/\">Open Font Library<\/a> is preparing a brand new site (an idea of what&#8217;s in store: <a href=\"http:\/\/openfontlibrary.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">http:\/\/openfontlibrary.org\/wiki<\/a>) and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<em><strong>Free Fonts<\/strong><\/em> sounds nice, but risks to blur with gratis (and non-free) fonts promoted under the same term. Others are all for using it because even if confusing, <em>Freedom<\/em> is important. There are many arguments against the use of the word <em><strong>FLOSS Fonts<\/strong><\/em>: it is an acronym, a software term (there is no consensus about whether fonts are software), and it sounds ugly. The software-argument works against <em><strong>Free Software Fonts<\/strong><\/em> too, of course. <em><strong>Open Fonts<\/strong><\/em> mixes with <em>Open Type<\/em> (which again has nothing to do with their license) and is felt to be ambiguous and evasive. But for the same reason, others are in favour of the term because <em>Open<\/em> is more inclusive and alludes to the &#8216;open endedness&#8217; of a font or process. The current proposal is to use <em><strong>Libre Fonts<\/strong><\/em>, even when it introduces an unfamiliar term to English speakers and would need some explanation.<\/p>\n<p>OSP likes this nicely awkward cross-language invention so we have adopted the term <em><strong>Libre Fonts<\/strong><\/em> and renamed our tags. We hope it sticks around.<\/p>\n<p>Thread on the openfontlibrary list: <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.freedesktop.org\/archives\/openfontlibrary\/2009-May\/002097.html\">http:\/\/lists.freedesktop.org\/archives\/openfontlibrary\/2009-May\/002097.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Open Font Library is preparing a brand new site (an idea of what&#8217;s in store: http:\/\/openfontlibrary.org\/wiki) and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[149],"tags":[66,164,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2910"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2958,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2910\/revisions\/2958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}