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A specification to make Ubuntu the ideal environment to design free/libre/open fonts | Making Ubuntu the ideal environment to design free/libre/open fonts |
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The vast majority of font designers use OS X. With common standards emerging (opentype) more are thinking cross-platform and most are using some free/libre/open plugins along with the current proprietary stack of font design tools. Improving the available tools, integrating them and providing a rich and intuitive design environment similar to what the font design community is accustomed to will help. |
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Simon wants to add glyphs to an existing open and would like to have all the stack needed to do proper font design easily installed. He would like a friendly and non-restricted environment where he can reuse his experience from designing fonts on other OSes. He would like as much interoperability and standard-based apps as possible so that his fonts can be used cross-platform. |
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There will be a meta-package to get the environment easily installed. | Creating a meta-package to get the font design toolkit easily installed. Creating online and offline resources for open font designers |
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Integrating the following tools: * fontforge, fontforge-doc, inkscape, gimp * freetype-tools, libfont-ttf-perl, fonttools, gwaterfall, freetype-demos, oto, sfddiff, fontQA, ttx, robofab, superpolator * gfontsampler, gucharmap, guci, scribus-font-preview * a selection of useful mozilla extensions Doing an UI review for fontforge, suggesting usability enhancements]. Helping with the GTK+ port, looking at a common format with FontLab either though import/export filters or a common XML-based format like UFO. See FontforgeImprovements. |
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discussion of related specs: OpenFonts FontManagement |
Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/font-design-toolkit
Created: by NicolasSpalinger
Contributors:
Packages affected: fontforge, font-design-toolkit
Summary
Making Ubuntu the ideal environment to design free/libre/open fonts
Rationale
The vast majority of font designers use OS X. With common standards emerging (opentype) more are thinking cross-platform and most are using some free/libre/open plugins along with the current proprietary stack of font design tools. Improving the available tools, integrating them and providing a rich and intuitive design environment similar to what the font design community is accustomed to will help.
Use cases
Simon wants to add glyphs to an existing open and would like to have all the stack needed to do proper font design easily installed. He would like a friendly and non-restricted environment where he can reuse his experience from designing fonts on other OSes. He would like as much interoperability and standard-based apps as possible so that his fonts can be used cross-platform.
Scope
We will list available
- tools
- research papers
- tutorials
- font sources to contribute to
- font sources to branch from
And gather useful information about the font design community
- FLOSS-friendly designers
- FLOSS-friendly websites and forums
- font design community real-life meetups (conference and workshops)
Design
Creating a meta-package to get the font design toolkit easily installed.
Creating online and offline resources for open font designers
Implementation
Integrating the following tools:
- fontforge, fontforge-doc, inkscape, gimp
- freetype-tools, libfont-ttf-perl, fonttools, gwaterfall, freetype-demos, oto, sfddiff, fontQA, ttx, robofab, superpolator
- gfontsampler, gucharmap, guci, scribus-font-preview
- a selection of useful mozilla extensions
Doing an UI review for fontforge, suggesting usability enhancements]. Helping with the GTK+ port, looking at a common format with FontLab either though import/export filters or a common XML-based format like UFO.
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues
BoF agenda and discussion
discussion of related specs: OpenFonts FontManagement
FontDesignToolkit (last edited 2010-09-28 15:02:14 by sal63-1-82-243-96-232)