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Re: Should a SIL Font Derivate Be Released?
You're not required to publish whatever derivative you make. (You are encouraged to do so on the theory that what your version may be useful to others.) However, if you do make it public, you have to…1 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I think it still makes sense, actually! For instance in a LaTeX package that invokes a font that has optical sizes, the sizes would be loaded according to the font sizes used in the document... just …2 -
Re: Are customers buying or using variable fonts?
I am not averse to potentially using variable fonts, but the vast majority of software I use does not natively support variable fonts, or at least not in a way that works well. So far for me the adva…4 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
Indeed, it's hard to deal with. Of course, many fonts embed a mention of the Open Font License in the metadata — but I imagine few non-fontheads are looking at that (so if you got it from font2s or …1 -
Re: Free fonts are good→free fonts are bad
There are some great libre* fonts out there, and there is good work being done on libre fonts. There are fewer and fewer "freeware" fonts (i.e., personal use fonts of seemingly obscure orig…3
