Please help compile a list of open-source typefaces.
I just came across this on twitter:
Feel free to contribute. See what I did there? “feel free.” Ah? Yes?
Typophile
Open-source typefaces
It just occurred to me, what’s the difference between an open source font, and a free font?
Supposedly, it's the same as the difference between freedom and beer.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
And here's some more:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
Basically, though, you can play with the vectors in open-source fonts, but the only special thing about a free font is that it didn't cost any money.
There is "free" as in you don't need to compensate the designer, then there's what people call "libre" which means free for redistribution. Technically all four possible combinations of those two can exist, although in practice you can't really charge money for a libre font because within minutes somebody will put out an identical free version. Of course it can get pretty complicated pretty quickly, for example if you believe that "open-source" means that the tools to make the original also need to be free (or even libre).
The fatal flaw in the "things must be libre" philosophy is simple: freedom is over-rated. It's nice, but it's just another thing that needs to be factored in life. Anybody who's really concerned with social responsibility knows very well that big chunks of individual freedom need to be sacrificed for the greater good. Don't believe all this Western hype.
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big chunks of individual freedom need to be sacrificed
...sigh.
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hrant:
The fatal flaw in the "things must be libre" philosophy is simple: freedom is over-rated. It's nice, but it's just another thing that needs to be factored in life.
Survival is the most important thing in life, because it is the true sine qua non: and if you are not free (by one important definition) your survival is at risk.
This is why having a free press and free elections are vital; without control over your local government, you can be enslaved or slaughtered at whim.
Anybody who's really concerned with social responsibility knows very well that big chunks of individual freedom need to be sacrificed for the greater good.
This, though, I don't disagree with, in some senses and contexts. Without governments with the power to tax and conscript, the Western democracies would have been conquered long ago by Stalin or Hitler. So I reject Libertarianism and similar ideologies.
Don't believe all this Western hype.
But here I strongly disagree. I think the Western vision of liberty, handed down in civics courses, is basically accurate.
It does contain a few things that are flawed, though.
There are self-serving rationalizations that define the stealing of land from indigenous people as something other than theft. because they didn't "develop" the land by practising agriculture. To take away the hunting grounds people need to feed themselves is as murderous as denying someone air by smothering him with a pillow (which also puts paid to the "property is theft" nonsense on the other side).
The effort to combat demagoguery, which is understandable, fails to address the justification for the welfare state, if not socialism; children are not at fault for being born into poverty. But the other side can retort that the responsible are not to blame for the feckless.
My logical conclusion is that someone does owe you a living, but it is your parents, not the State; and thus the State may legitimately demand financial responsibility as a qualification for reproduction. How it can do that without outraging the Right (interfering in intimate affairs) or the Left (effective genocide against disadvantaged minorities) is... left as an exercise for the reader.
It just occurred to me, what’s the difference between an open source font, and a free font?
Licensing and intent. Saying that a font is free or open source does not really provide sufficient information about how it can be used. The kind of open source license(s) a font is released under can have an impact on other software the font is used or embedded with and this issue alone is the reason that a font exception clause that can be applied to the GNU GPL exists:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#FontException
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_font_exception
http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/20050425novalis
To the best of my knowledge the http://Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Open Font License is the only open source license specifically formulated for use with fonts. Others, such as the Apache, MIT and Creative Commons commune of licenses are either not specific enough about whether fonts subject to them make related content open source by association or very specifically require attribution.
The good thing about the above licenses is that they are very well documented and discussed, thus potential users have no excuse for not understanding what liberties and restrictions they impose upon fonts released under them.
Fonts labelled as free can usually be separated into two categories: 1) fonts released under a standard commercial license but free of charge, either directly to customers or bundled with a larger purchase; 2) fonts released with a basic, limited or no license and free of charge. In the second case it is often unclear what restrictions, if any, are imposed on the fonts and as such their usage potential is often extremely limited particularly for commercial usage.
Another major factor in deciding to use or abuse any of the above is quality or distinct lack thereof and the work involved, for example, in modifying an open source font to work optimally may end up costing more in man hours and time spent testing and revising than it would have cost to license a commercial font that was already there.
@Karl – The UFL (Ubuntu Font Licence) is a modified OFL. I think the UFL permits selling the fonts as separate products, but it's been a while since I read it.
@Chris – If you want the boiled-down version... Free can be gratis (free beer) or libre (free speech). Open source is libre.
The UFL (Ubuntu Font Licence) is a modified OFL. I think the UFL permits selling the fonts as separate products, but it's been a while since I read it.
Thanks, I was not aware of that one. Looks like more information can be found here.
Your survival is at risk if you expect too much freedom.
Free press and free elections are illusions that limit freedom.
I'm not saying freedom is bad, just that we're brainwashed into thinking it's the ultimate goal. Just like we're brainwashed into thinking death is the ultimate defeat. Those are counter to human nature. There's a reason people admire martyrs, even though systems hate them.
the State may legitimately demand financial responsibility as a qualification for reproduction.
That's too Sparta for me. BTW try to see Gattaca.
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@hrant:
Just like we're brainwashed into thinking death is the ultimate defeat. Those are counter to human nature.
Human nature doesn't tend to go too high on the Maslow hierarchy when what is below hasn't been taken care of... which is the case for the vast majority of humans.
So for most of us, these are the three basic goals:
- stay alive
- have kids
- keep them alive
with being safe and comfortable and having fun also important along the way.
Dealing with what stands in the way of that, especially for other people, is a loftier goal, but still one that is understandable.
@Mark Simonson: That was a great piece of writing. Thanks.
And please, try to stay on topic. Don’t pull another Luc thread. I want this to be useful. Not another pedantic, narcissistic, self-righteous, in-fighting bitch session.
I think it's more interesting to consider the meaning of "open source" here less in the sense of commerce than in the sense of intellectual property and potential benefits.
Taken in the broader context of computing and software development, anything that's "open source" implies that the code generating a product is open for inspection, customization, and extension by end users who have myriad needs that the original designer cannot fully accommodate or even predict.
In terms of font development, that would mean an "open source" font is posted publicly with something like the GNU license, and all the character outlines and font metrics are included in some widely accessible format.
This raises the possibility of "crowdsourcing" font design...(ask yourself in how many fonts you've ever wanted to change just a few wordstopping characters to make them more usable, right?! Everyone's got a list...)
It can only be a good, democratizing thing in the long run to prioritize the needs of end users over the rather narrow and often self-driven creative pursuits of one type designer, no matter how talented or smart. We know from research in many areas that the knowledge and creativity of the masses will nearly always outperform that of an expert individual.
Beyond just a list of the open-source fonts that have been attempted so far, it would be a great feat of digital social justice to compile a statistical list of the fonts people would most like to change, down to individual glyphs, prioritize them, and let those fonts loose to the masses to start whittling and improving for everyone to benefit.
(Type geek party game: design one glyph and pass it on...)
ask yourself in how many fonts you've ever wanted to change just a few wordstopping characters
For some weird reason though that seems to happen almost exclusively with free fonts...
Also, there might be a reason something was designed in a certain way that a non-designer won't understand... until it's too late. For example if you see a "g" that feels a bit vertically cramped and you decide to make it drop lower, you're making things worse not better, and you won't even know.
We know from research in many areas that the knowledge and creativity of the masses will nearly always outperform that of an expert individual.
I for one know no such thing. And it's counter to common sense that you could know how to do something without expending the effort to learn how to do it.
One area that I think laymen can certainly help though is feedback: a mechanism for expressing opinions about what's wrong with a font (or what could be added) would be awesome. Some designers will be too proud to pay heed to outside opinion, but the way I define Designer the good ones will be all ears.
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"We know from research in many areas that the knowledge and creativity of the masses will nearly always outperform that of an expert individual."
That's a rather fuzzy statement. The idea that more minds = better solution isn't any sort of sure thing.
That's not to say open source isn't a great thing. Just that whether something is open or closed source isn't a direct indicator of the quality of the solution.
@hrant – Open-sourced free fonts do explicitly invite this type of tinkering. (chibi-Rowan rubs 's tiny little chibi-hands together in glee with a tiny little manic smile on 's chibi-face…)
Which part of "feedback" means "tinkering"?
Please don't tinker with a car's braking system. Even if it's your car.
hhp
Please don't tinker with a car's braking system. Even if it's your car.
You haven’t been near my brother :)
What do you mean, "feedback"? I wasn't talking about feedback at all!
If you weren't leading off from my "feedback mechanism" suggestion, what were you leading off from?
hhp
DiSH>> ... ask yourself in how many fonts you've ever wanted to change just a few wordstopping characters ...
hrant> For some weird reason though that seems to happen almost exclusively with free fonts...
What I would really like to know how right now anyone can equate tinkering with feedback. My working assumption is a brain glitch.
So you're saying open-source free fonts invite tinkering because they suck, and we're supposed to be happy about that? Were you on the team that made the Chevy Corvair?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed
hhp
So, seen any good open source fonts lately?
Open-source fonts invite tinkering because it's legal, and you can even distribute the modified result. That can be feedback if your tinkering is hailed as an improvement.
Flawed typefaces don't have to be open-source; only when they are is there this recourse.
That's not how feedback ideally works.
The problem is that people are told they can be astronauts if they just want to be astronauts, no matter how sickly, dumb and/or lazy they are.
hhp
What does feedback have to do with the legal concept of open source?
Lato: new free open-source sanserif family by Lukasz Dziedzic
http://typophile.com/node/77283
http://code.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Lato
Long live open-source.
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Darren (DiSH) wrote:
Beyond just a list of the open-source fonts that have been attempted so far, it would be a great feat of digital social justice to compile a statistical list of the fonts people would most like to change, down to individual glyphs, prioritize them, and let those fonts loose to the masses to start whittling and improving for everyone to benefit.
I was trying salvage something usable from that la-la-land talk by saying that more -and more formal- public feedback would certainly be a good thing. (What's ludicrous is expecting untrained people to actually carry out judicious modifications.)
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Yes, true. I don't think the concept of open source implies 'anyone and everyone are capable of improving upon it'. It merely states that they have the legal right to give it a shot if they want.
And that's why the more succesful open source software projects have fairly rigorous peer review and gatekeepers. Might be impractical at the level of a font, but possible.
That said, I think the more practical applications of wanting to release a typeface as open source is to offer it as a tool for the broader open source software movement. It allows open source software access to type designs that otherwise wouldn't make it into the products due to licensing issues.
I'll thank you, @hrant, for not putting words in my mouth! You were the one saying open-source fonts invite tinkering because they suck!
Nope, open-source fonts invite tinkering through their licensing. I can legally (if not skillfully) make them fit my preferences, and in the ultra-remote case that anyone wants my modifications, I can give them a copy there and then.
I'm not God. I'm not Chuck Norris. No way do I claim to be perfect, so I'm obviously not you.
So one very good concern of somebody considering making a free open-source font is the fear that some dilettante will make a change that people don't have the sense to avoid* and it will drown out his good effort because it's all free anyway. Version control is bad enough when it's internal.
* Like using Comic Sans on a funeral wreath; and no, the dead guy was not a professional clown, he was a highly respected Pakistani statesman.
Perfect, shmerfect. I just know I'm not as good as you at what you do. And I for one am dead sure that neither one of us was ever going to become an astronaut. Face the limits, and you'll inherit higher quality.
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I think that's a theoretical fear rather than a real one.
I can grab a copy of the Apache web server source code, make inept changes, and then give it away, but no one is going to use my version over the main branch version. Most licenses require that any derivations be uniquely named as such to avoid confusion as to which is the 'main' branch.
Now, granted, that's all accepted standard procedure when it comes to open source software projects, and maybe that level of project formality hasn't been applied to open source typefaces specifically.
I'm myself hacking on PT Sans/Serif and Ubuntu (under new names, of course) because there was some simple stuff missing which I wanted/needed at the time. I need hardly say that the project is growing, albeit slowly, since my current goal is to need only PT Serif to read Pyeknu's fanfic.
It's still better to get an actual type designer to do it.
hhp
Doesn't it depend on what's being hacked by whom, ever? I'mean, modern fonts are full of all kinds of variables... And you know what variables are for don't'cha?
@Té Rowan: “I'm myself hacking on PT Sans/Serif…”
Is this a typeface you are modifying? If so, what typeface?
Is this a typeface you are modifying? If so, what typeface?
The clue is in the names, ParaType's PT Sans/Serif.
And Ubuntu isn't just a distro.
It is relatively easy to compose new characters in all three faces, as there is a good variety of components to build with. And, since I am targetting only myself, I shan't be too worried if an underdot is 0.001em too far west.
In my book if you can keep the modified version to yourself don't even worry about the license. My own concern is always the danger of harming the original via redistribution.
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Norrachance... Who wants homebrew Pinyin translit characters in PT Serif anyway? Or an 'okina in Ubuntu? Other than me, that is?
"My own concern is always the danger of harming the original via redistribution."
A valid concern. One that is managed on the software side by teams and release management. Perhaps a github type site/org for open source type could serve that same purpose on the type side.
Correct me if I am wrong, an open source typeface is a typeface with an “open user license.” Have I got it?
A licence that fits the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition, anyway.
Huerta Tipografica – Andada Free Font by Carolina Giovagnoli
The free typeface was given the 2010 Design Award by Bienal Ibero-Americana. It includes the basic set, accented characters, signs and punctuation, numbers, ligatures, and mathematical signs. R/I/B/BI all with small caps. Released under the SIL Open Font License.
http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Andada
This link has info, but the download is for Alegreya not Andada:
http://thefontfontyeahs.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/huerta-tipografica-anda...
@Renaissance Man: Sorry, I don’t think I understand;
1. What is “R/I/B/BI”?
2. What is “SIL Open Font License”?
3. Are you referring to free fonts, or open source fonts?
4. What are the actual names of the fonts, and their respective links mentioned above?
Remember, it’s always better to err on the side of Plain Language writing in a public forum so readers don’t have to Google every second word.
And don’t forget to use informative hyperlinks. Don’t hyperlink words like “here.” Hyperlink a meaningful word-strings that inform the user as to the destination of the hyperlink.
@Chris Dean
Renaissance Man: Sorry, I don’t think I understand; Sorry is right. In what grade did you drop out?
1. What is “R/I/B/BI”? AYFKM?
2. What is “SIL Open Font License”? Did you read the post by Karl Stange?
3. Are you referring to free fonts, or open source fonts? Did you define open source fonts? Did you read the post by Karl Stange?
4. What are the actual names of the fonts, and their respective links mentioned above? Duh! ANDADA! Links are for info and download of the whole family as stated.
Remember, it’s always better to err on the side of Plain Language writing in a public forum so readers don’t have to Google every second word. Pretentious and smug.
And don’t forget to use informative hyperlinks. Don’t hyperlink words like “here.” Hyperlink a meaningful word-strings that inform the user as to the destination of the hyperlink. Did I use hyperlink words like “here”? Boilerplate responses make it look like you didn't even read the post before you responded.
Well of course I read your post, how else could I have asked questions about it?
I dropped out after my masters.
And yes, I read Karl’s posts, I had forgotten them though. I would rather not have to re-read an entire thread to determine the meaning of acronyms. Another Plain Language principle.
Following this discussion, my understanding of open source fonts is still hazy. My best simplified definition would be a typeface with working files for which the creator has granted permission for others to modify and re-distribute. That’s significantly different than free.
As far as boiler-plate responses, I do so because I see the same mistakes over and over. Using acronyms and poor hyperlinks makes it harder for the lay-typographer to participate, and creates accessibility issues for visually impaired readers.
And foul language just reflects poorly on the entire community.
Chris, plain language is for plain folk. It's not that you should try to be not plain if you are, it's that you shouldn't try to be plain if you aren't.
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Plain language is for everyone. That’s the entire point.
“It's not that you should try to be not plain if you are, it's that you shouldn't try to be plain if you aren't.”
Please tell me thats suposed to be ironic and hilarious. Translation?
@Chris Dean:
1. What is “R/I/B/BI”?
Context indicates: Roman, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic.
Terseness, rather than verbosity, marks, for example, a classified ad for an apartment to rent; and so in the description of a particular font, this was followed - to conserve bandwidth, and serve the primary audience.
If everything that the non-typographical reader could not immediately understand had to be spelled out in every post, that would make it cumbersome to post and so on...
Please tell me thats suposed to be ironic and hilarious. Translation?
Even if you are a technical expert, yes, you should try to be clear and understandable at all times - and to have the capacity to make yourself understandable to laypersons when appropriate.
However, pretending to be 'just plain folks' and adopting the speech of another social class is disrespectful, and can be interpreted as mockery. That could have been what he was referring to.
Don’t try to be strange if you are normal, and don’t try to be normal if you are strange.
Have I got it?
Yet another example of hilarious irony!
Using the word terseness (brief and to the point) in a conversation about Plain Language.
Great material.
Translation?
I know you're just acting stupid to make a point, but: be yourself; don't ask others to be yourself. Of course that's not a perfect translation. Nothing ever is. Oh and you know this supposedly simple thing they teach you called Synonym? No such thing. Language is way too powerful to be plain.
hhp
“Be yourself; don't ask others to be yourself.”
That’s actually quite beautiful. With your permission, I would like to quote you in my book. With a proper citation of course:
Papazian, H. (2012, November 03). Re: Open source typefaces (Online forum comment). Retrieved from http://typophile.com/node/97575?page=1
I wrote that in public, so you don't need my permission (but thanks for asking).
hhp
Chris,
I really do appreciate your work at Typophile, but I do not take kindly to condescension. I prefer language that has precision, concision, clarity, and grace. But your being the Plain Language Police, or the nanny for your preferred posting language is a bit over the top. Of all the egregious errors in posting at Typophile, your singling out my post, in which I was trying to contribute to answers to your question, is misguided at best. I have no real problem with boilerplate when it is appropriate, but you use it indiscriminately. You're better than that. The issue is not just plain language, but appropriate language, something that "Plain Language" alone fails to address.
Steve
It'd be kind of coolio if there were a website such as open source typefaces or open source fonts (both of which are available as I write), which would list on going modifications of a particular typeface. In the notes the designers are given lines to explain what they see need be added etc..
And of course the website would be a go to for all open source typefaces.
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“both of which are available as I write”
URLs?
Yep, domains urls. You can grab them through godaddy dot com.
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I was asking what the URLs of the sites you were referring to in your previous comment:
“It'd be kind of coolio if there were a website such as open source typefaces or open source fonts (both of which are available as I write).”
...if there were a website...
This is turning into a Monty Python sketch isn't it?
Isn't it?
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>This is turning into a Monty Python sketch isn't it?
Well, yes and no. They are both silly, but Monty Python was intentionally funny. This thread is ludicrous by the pretentiousness of some of the posts. Guess which ones.
To assist documentation:
"R/I/B/BI" – Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. O for Oblique may replace the I.
"SIL Open Font License" – An open-source (recognised as such by the Open Source Initiative) font licence developed by SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) for their own use and adopted by others.
"GPL with font exception" – The General Public License with an exception that specifically exempts (PDF) documents embedding the font(s) from the GPL.
Free – The problem with 'free' is that there are two kinds of it in English: Free beer (gratis, for free) and free speech (libre, freedom).
- - - - -
@Renaissance Man – There is still a lot of un- and badly-documented slang and jargon out there. Also, your infosheet was badly organised, with many assumptions. Using tags would have been more helpful, say:
Typeface: Andada
Foundry: Huerta Tipografica
License: OFL 1.1
Designer: Carolina Giovagnoli
Description: ...
Webfont URI: ...
Good tagging makes searches easier, too.
>many assumptions
What's a URI?
>Using tags would have been more helpful
Why am I being singled out? No other post in this thread uses those tags!
Yours was merely the most recent example.
URI = Uniform Resource Identifier, the New Order name for the humble URL or web link.
Chris, what's a "URL"?
Reynir, what do you mean by "documentation"?
hhp
@hrant – In myth, documentation was a process that would make things easier to use and/or understand.
What do you mean by "process"?
hhp
A series of actions that transforms an input into an output. Beyond this point, I'll have to point you towards encyclopedic sources, be they Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica or other similar sources.
Wait a second, you expect me to open a new window, and actually type something into Google?!
hhp
@Té Rowan:
URI = Uniform Resource Identifier, the New Order name for the humble URL or web link.
I was going to say...
No!
They're very similar, and closely related, but they are not the same.
but I see that I was only half right.
A URL is still what it always was: an actual web address, the first part of which has a direct mapping to an IP address, its raw or internal form.
But there is also what I thought a URI was - an URN, or universal resource name; that follows a given site around, even as it gets hosted in different locations.
A URI can be either a URL or an URN.
This thread is ludicrous by the pretentiousness of some of the posts. Guess which ones.
lol.
But the whole I'd say most threads, especially the ones which are for the betterment of the forum(s), are most like a Kafka novel ... and in particular The Castle.
Just sayin'
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@hrant – Sadly, I'm not omniscient. In particular, I did not know I looked so dreadfully boring to you lot.
Who said anything about boring?
But what do you mean by "omniscient"? Seems like a really unplain word.
hhp
Last time I checked, 'omniscient' had only one meaning: Knowing everything.
Chris Dean, I support, in general, your various posts regarding clear communication. And to everyone, don't assume you know the background or qualifications of everyone here. All are interested in type, but from different angles. They may be type designers, or students, or graphic designers or technical writers. They may be native English speakers or English may be the second or third language. So take the time to be clear, even if it means putting an explanatory phrase into your post if it is needed.
Back on topic: Deja Vu
main page: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
license: http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/License
Gentium, a SIL font
main page: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium
SIL license: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
FAQ: http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium_faq
All the SIL fonts home: http://scripts.sil.org/FontDownloads
take the time to be clear
Clear is relative, and time is priceless.
hhp
These SAY they're open source fonts. They may be;
http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
http://www.netmagazine.com/features/top-10-open-source-web-fonts
Google CALLS their collection of free web-fonts "open-source", but they don't appear to be.
- Herb
Google CALLS their collection of free web-fonts "open-source", but they don't appear to be.
The article, Why Google Web Fonts aren't really open source by Matthew Butterick from his website, Typography for Lawyers raises some very interesting points about Google's approach.
Crimson is a font designed by Sebastian Kosch and released under the SIL OFL:
The Arsenal free font for Cyrillic and Latin, winner of a Ukranian font competition hosted by the Mystetsky Arsenal Foundation and the Stairfors Design Studio was recently released by Andrij Shevchenko under the SIL OFL. According to Andrij in the discussion in the Release forum, giving the font away was one of the goals of the contest.
The Linux Libertine and Biolinum fonts have been released under both the SIL OFL and GNU GPL with font exception:
Cyreal hosts a number of fonts released under the SIL OFL:
- Lora, designed by Olga Karpushina:
http://cyreal.org/2012/07/lora/
Alice, designed by Ksenia Erulevich:
http://cyreal.org/2012/07/alice/
Wire, designed by Alexei Vanyashin and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan:
http://cyreal.org/2012/07/wire/
Junge, designed by Alexei Vanyashin:
http://cyreal.org/2012/07/junge/
Marmelad, designed by Manvel Shmavonyan:
http://cyreal.org/2012/07/marmelad/
Marko Horobchyk, designed by Zhenya Spizhovyi:
http://cyreal.org/2011/12/the-making-of-marko-horobchik/
Lobster Cyrillic, an expansion of Pablo Impallari's Lobster by by Alexei Vanyashin and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan:
Volkorn by Friedrich Althausen is a nice family of four fonts which was originally released under a Creative Commons license but has subsequently been updated and released under the SIL OFL.
This is a good example of how important it is to try and trace the source of a given font to the original designer and check the application of a particular license as there are significant differences between the freedoms afforded by these two different licenses.
The Guidebook section of the Open Font Library site has a good overview of and links to information about various open source and free software licenses.
J. Tillman: > You left out styles, designer, language support, description."Take the time to be clear ... putting an explanatory phrase into your post if it is needed." What's a FAQ?
Chris: >"So far we have...": You left out Andada
To all those joining the "clear, plain, explanatory" Police: Oh ye of so little humor. You're all missing hrants point: He's mocking you!
If every post had every word, term, and fact spelled out in excruciating detail, each post would be longer than most threads, and we'd have little time left to do anything else. Instead of stooping to the lowest common denominator and assuming ignorance on a massive scale, let's give some credit to the Typophile audience. BTW (that's by the way) I'm ticked off by the hypocrisy of the Police: most don't even follow their own guidelines for clarity, detail, or organization. Glass houses, indeed!
How did a thread about "Open source typefaces" get to be about "plain language? Oh, yes, Chris started both. It would be nice it we stayed on topic. In General Discussions, "Anything goes." I thought that meant any topic was fair game for a thread, not that everything but the kitchen sink was OK within a thread.
Volkorn has no kerning table. No, I'm not going to explain that.
So for most of us, these are the three basic goals:
- stay alive
- have kids
- keep them alive
... in other words, quantity over quality.
So, suddenly a list of fonts starts to form.
My 2 cents: Unless a font being «Open Source» is your only criterion for choosing a font, such a list isn’t very useful.
And I’m still wondering about «Open Source typefaces», that term doesn’t make sense to me. What’s the source of a typeface? The type designer’s head? hand?
Robert, if you're assuming ignorance on a massive scale for your kids, please don't have any.
And I’m still wondering about «Open Source typefaces», that term doesn’t make sense to me.
It would perhaps be more accurate to describe them as fonts released under an open source license, as much as you might describe fonts released by a major foundry as released under a commercial license.
Raph Levien has a couple, in particular Century Catalogue and Inconsolata.
The M+ series have the following, extremely simple, licence:
These fonts are free software. Unlimited permission is granted to use, copy, and distribute it, with or without modification, either commercially and noncommercially. THESE FONTS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY.
Old Standard seems to be released under the SIL OFL.
So is Cardo.
RibengUni, designed by Bivuti Chakma and Jyoti Chakma with assistance from Jan Żurawski is a recently released font that supports the Chakma script. It is licensed under the SIL OFL and uses Paul Hunt's Source Sans Pro (Regular) as the basis for its Latin component.
How does 'open source' differ from 'public domain', where permission is explicitly granted to modify, re-publish, etc.?
How does 'open source' differ from 'public domain'
In my experience through the presence of an explicit license. Where I have seen fonts "released" into the public domain they are accompanied by a statement which makes that clear without imposing any kind of license. For example, Barry Schwartz's Goudy Bookletter 1911:
http://crudfactory.com/font/show/gb1911
Clicking on the "Public Domain" link on that page takes you to the Wikipedia entry for public domain.
It would perhaps be more accurate to describe them as fonts released under an open source license, as much as you might describe fonts released by a major foundry as released under a commercial license.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, my confusion arose from the terms «Open source font» vs. «Open source typeface», as both were used in this thread, and my impression was that they were used to mean different things.
Open source fonts are easy to define for me, the source being a FontLab VFB file or FontForge or UFO file, and being made available together with the fonts under an Open Source licence.
Sorry if I wasn’t clear enough, my confusion arose from the terms «Open source font» vs. «Open source typeface», as both were used in this thread, and my impression was that they were used to mean different things.
I am pretty sure that it comes down to them being used interchangeably as opposed to referring to different things, at least in the context of this thread but detailed re-reading may prove otherwise.
For my part I have been referring to fonts licensed under a specific open source license, as per your definition, sorry if I have added to the confusion by using the terms interchangeably. In some cases it may be the intention from the initiation of a concept, through the drawing of letters to engineering and distribution to consider the typeface as "open source" in whatever sense people choose to interpret that and the more philosophical debates at the beginning of the thread are certainly more along those lines, but as Chris was asking for a list (and as this is something I would find useful as well) that is what I have focused on.
Open Source and Public Domain are legal intellectual property right concepts. Whether it's type or not is somewhat irrelevant.
My (limited) understanding of Public Domain is that it can get messy due to how it's defined from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
Open Source has one advantage over Public Domain in that (ideally) there is a clear license attached.
So, an OS product's use is dictated by its included license. A PD product's use is dictated by the laws in the jurisdiction the product belongs to.
At least in the US, if a property is public domain, you can take it and do whatever you want with it...give it away, resell it, redesign it, whatever.
Most open source licenses, however, (in the context of software) have a clause that any derivative software you make with it will need to retain the same open source license (either as a whole, meaning your entire product also needs to be open source, or as a noted credit for portion for your product, even if your bigger product uses a different license).
So, with type, I think one distinction could be that with a public domain typeface, I could take it, modify it, and sell it. With an open source typeface, I could take it, modify it, but would need to redistribute it with the same license as the original.
(Though the details all come down to the wording of the actual license, of course)
HVB – The Open Source stuff is still copyrighted, which is why a licence is needed.
altsan – There's nothing 'seems to' about it. Old Standard and the Theano Classical Fonts are, in the author's own words, "released under the SIL Open Font License ...".
http://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/ is the path to the Google Webfont Directory's Mercurial repository. The link 'ofl' takes you to the fonts/faces licensed under the SIL OFL. Usually, there are VFB and/or SFD files with the TTF/OTF files.
There are free and open-source fonts/faces to be had from:
Arkandis Digital Foundry
Association for Insight Meditation
CAT Design
The Crud Factory
George Douros
Greek Font Society
Janusz Nowacki
TypoShop ubs
Those from Douros and TCF are licensed in a way that resembles the WTFPL ("You may do Whatever The F* you want to with the Licensed Material.")
@ Té Rowan
There is still a lot of un- and badly-documented slang and jargon out there. Also, your infosheet was badly organised, with many assumptions. Using tags would have been more helpful, say:
Typeface:
Foundry:
License:
Designer:
Description:
Webfont URI:
Good tagging makes searches easier, too.
Don't quit your day job yet, @Renny.
Oops, Reynir, your rules for me don't apply to you?
Of course, if you want 50-60 typefaces documented that badly, there is always the DIY option.
Edit #1: On a second thought based on your infopost (which I understood only because I already knew), better I do it. At least I know it'll be done right, then.
@Renaissance Man – YAFIYGI
Legend:
Fonts:
H Hair weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
L Light weight
T Thin weight
R Regular or book weight
M Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
B Bold weight
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
V Heavy weight
K Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Cond Condensed width
Norm Normal width
Exp Expanded width
Format:
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
SFD FontForge's work file format
SFDir FontForge's work directory format
UFO RoboFont's work directory format
VFB Fontlab's work file format
Licensing:
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera
Typeface: Accanthis ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.008
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Light, airy serif; resembles Cloister OldStyle
Typeface: Accanthis ADF No2
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.008
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Light, airy serif; quite garaldish
Typeface: Accanthis ADF No3
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.008
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Blend of Accanthis and Accanthis No2
Typeface: Aurelis ADF No2
Fonts: 7: R/RI/B/BI, script I in Cond,Norm,Exp
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.008
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Calligraphic feel
Typeface: Baskervald ADF
Fonts: 6: R/RI/B/BI/V/VO
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.018
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Serif, designed as a Baskerville
Typeface: Berenis ADF Pro
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Serif, didone-style
Typeface: Electrum ADF Exp
Fonts: 8: L/LO/R/RO/SB/SBO/B/BO
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Square, monoline slab-serif; City-like
Typeface: Gillius ADF
Fonts: 8: R/RI/B/BI in Cond,Norm
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.009
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Sans-serif, heavily based on Gill Sans
Typeface: Gillius ADF No2
Fonts: 8: R/RI/B/BI in Cond,Norm
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.009
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Sans-serif, heavily based on Gill Sans
Typeface: Ikarius ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.006
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Vestigial serif, inspired by Hypatia Sans
Typeface: Ikarius ADF No2
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.006
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Vestigial serif, var. on Ikarius ADF
Typeface: Irianis ADF
Fonts: 4(TTC),8(OTF): R/RI/B/BI with separate OSF/SC fonts in OTF
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.006
Format: TTC,OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: A Caslon-like serif
Typeface: Irianis ADF Math
Fonts: 1: R
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.006
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Irialis ADF with math charset
Typeface: Keypad ADF, Keypad ADF No2
Fonts: 2
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.001
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Pi fonts with keycaps, white and black
Typeface: Libris ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.007
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Calligraphic sans-serif, resembles Lydian a lot
Typeface: Mekanus ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Slab serif with a typewriter feel
Typeface: Mekanus ADF Titling
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Slab serif with a typewriter feel
Typeface: MintSpirit ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.004
Format: OTF
Licensing: OFL 1.1
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Sans-serif, blends Ubuntu with Gill Sans
Typeface: MintSpirit ADF No2
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.004
Format: OTF
Licensing: OFL 1.1
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Sans-serif, blends Ubuntu with Gill Sans
Typeface: Mintysis ADF
Fonts: 6: R/RI/M/MI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.002
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL 1.1
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: TrueType version of MintSpirit
Typeface: Neogothis ADF
Fonts: 12: L/LI/R/RI/M/MI/SB/SBI/B/BI/V/VI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Monoline sans-serif, Bauhaus/Kabel feel
Typeface: Oldania ADF
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.006
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Medieval, scribe-like
Typeface: Ornements ADF
Fonts: 2: One for each format
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.001
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Pi font with clefs, hederae and other ornaments
Typeface: Romande ADF
Fonts: 7: R/RI/SB/SBI, with Script in I and OSF/SC in R/SB
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.010
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Serif with elements of Tiffany and Caslon
Typeface: Romande ADF No2
Fonts: 4: R/RI/SB/SBI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.010
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Serif with elements of Tiffany and Caslon
Typeface: Solothurn ADF
Fonts: 6: R/RO/M/MO/B/BO
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.004
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Monoline sans-serif novelty face
Typeface: Switzera ADF
Fonts: 24: L/LI/R/RI/M/MI/SB/SBI/B/BI/XB/XBI, Cond(L/LI/R/RI/SB/SBI/B/BI), Exp(R/RI/B/BI)
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Vera
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Variations on Bitstream Vera Sans: Cond,Norm,Exp
Typeface: Symbol ADF
Fonts: 4: Arrows/Bullets in either format
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Pi face of arrows and bullets
Typeface: Tribun ADF
Fonts: 12: R/RI/B/BI/XB/XBI, Cond(R/RI/B/BI), Exp(R/RI)
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.017
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Serif, very similar to Times New Roman
Typeface: Universalis ADF
Fonts: 8: R/RI/B/BI in Cond,Norm
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.009
Format: OTF
Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Geometric sans-serif, inspired by Futura
Typeface: Venturis ADF
Fonts: 18: R/RI/B/BI for all, plus H/HI for Norm
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Norm,Cond,Style,Cond Style
Typeface: Venturis ADF No2
Fonts: 12: R/RI/B/BI for all
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond, Norm, Medium weight
Typeface: Venturis ADF Old
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Garalde cues
Typeface: Venturis ADF Sans
Fonts: 18: R/RI/B/BI for all, plus H/HI for Norm
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Vestigial serif variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond,Norm,Exp and Light weight
Typeface: Venturis ADF Sans No2
Fonts: 12: R/RI/B/BI for each width
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Vestigial serif variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond,Norm,Exp
Typeface: Venturis ADF Titling
Fonts: 5
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.005
Format: OTF
Licensing: Utopia
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Cap/smallcap titling fonts
Typeface: Verana
Fonts: 4: R/RI/B/BI
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.002
Format: OTF
Licensing: Vera
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Bitstream Vera variant
Typeface: Verana Sans
Fonts: 8: R/RO/M/MO/SB/SBO/B/BO
Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF)
Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/
Version: 1.002
Format: OTF
Licensing: Vera
Designer: Hirwen Harendal
Description: Bitstream Vera Sans variant
12.2K of Level Zero descriptions... and that's only ADF! And I still suspect there are a few missing.
One little thing: UFO (Unified Font Object) does happen to be RoboFont's native format, but it predates RoboFont by almost a decade and is not exclusive to RoboFont. It was created as a non-proprietary format for exchanging and archiving font data.
@Té: Now that’s a post!
Regular and Book cannot be combined.
hhp
Agreed.
Hmm... First time I have ever seen anyone differentiate between Regular and Book. Any suggestion on what letter(s) to assign to Book?
@Mark – Right interesting tidbit.
I've heard people differentiate between Regular and Book for over a decade now (although not always consistently) and I'm a relative newbie.
Letter assignment for Book: maybe refer to the K in CMYK and go with the last letter, which is serendipitously* also a K.
* http://lmgtfy.com/?q=serendipitously
And don't forget Kate Moss's favorite weight, way lighter than Hairline: GCW, Goddam Cadaverous Waif.
http://typophile.com/node/14722
hhp
Right interesting tidbit.
UFO is also supported by FontLab, Glyphs, FontForge and other font editing tools.
Letter assignment for Book: maybe refer to the K in CMYK and go with the last letter, which is serendipitously* also a K.
In Té's list, K already is assigned to Black. Maybe BK?
I know this is the wrong place to post this, but I've been trying for 3 days to start a new thread in General Discussions, and I keep getting this:
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I did contact the server administrator. Nada.
Can anyone help me?
Maybe I could use U or V for their resemblance to a closed or open hard-cover book... but how many faces have both a Regular and a Book, anyway?
FF Meta for a start:
https://www.fontfont.com/fonts/meta
[EDIT] I am not implying that Meta is in anyway subject to an open source or freeware license, just a great example of a large type family.
"U" might refer to an Ultra weight. I would second Mark's suggestion and use "Bk" for Book and "Blk" for Black, or provide a key in context.
Looks like I'll have to dip into l/c to lessen need for context. "Bk" oughta be usable, though a parser would need look-ahead to distinguish it from Bold. Forgot upstream I was using U for Ultra in the list. *mallets self*
Somehow, I rather doubt FF Meta will enter any serious freeware list within the next 150 years or so.
Hopefully you're right. But your system shouldn't only cover junk.
hhp
Starling has both Roman and Book.
Check your fly, @hrant! Your biases are showing!
Good one, Té!!!
My biases against poorly-made (and often plagiarized) junk, which is the lion's share of free fonts? Thanks for noticing.
hhp
You are a pro fontographer and a commercial developer so I'm not surprised that you have biases against free fonts at all. Still, doing nowt but rant and rave and rail against them and their quality (or lack of same) leads the FOSS guys to thinking you're either bouncing twixt hill and dale or gulping some big-corp's kool-aid, and they will then proceed to ignore you.
My bias isn't against the pricing - that would be weak. If somebody makes a high-quality product and benefits by giving it away, more power to him*, and to hell with the old farts who don't want to adapt to new realities. The problem isn't the pricing, the problem is pretending the quality is good enough; the problem is dreaming that quality and price are completely detached.
* I myself made very little money from Arasan, but the prestige -I mean within the Armenian community- is still going strong after 14 years.
And I totally don't mind being ignored by ignorants. Ignoring things -like what actually constitutes quality type- is the ignorer's loss. If you can't tell a good font from a bad one -free or not- you pay for that first and foremost.
hhp
And if that knowledge is kept within a priesthood, less power to everybody. Inquiring minds want to know.
With Arasan you clearly did something to improve life, and that is the FOSS world's measure of worth.
Are you accusing people on Typophile of not sharing knowledge? But nobody is going to gift you power - you will have to work for that. And most people who make free fonts don't want to work very hard at making fonts. Hmmm, human nature perhaps?
The fact that Arasan helped Armenians become more able to communicate and publish websites was awesome, and was the reason I did it for cheap. But the truth is nobody's life improved more than my own.
And what does not really help Armenian culture is publishing yet more horrible free fonts. Crappy fonts in any script don't really improve life, so they are not worth much.
hhp
@ hrant: "And most people who make free fonts don't want to work very hard at making fonts."
I agree with most of what you've said, but let's not intertwine effort and results too much.
It often takes as much effort to produce a bad novel -- or font -- in unskilled hands as it does for a skilled writer or type designer to produce a good novel -- or font. As you said, it's important to "tell a good font from a bad one -- free or not."
Since your posts are often met with Reynir's wrath or scorn, I feel that I'm in good company.
@ Chris: "Good one, Té!!!" For sophomoric toilet humor?
@ Reynir: "There is still a lot of un- and badly-documented slang and jargon out there." You are the only one on this thread that used the term "FOSS" and you never explained what it was.
" For sophomoric toilet humor?"
Yes!
As a relative newcomer I can't say I see anything hrant has said here (or in any other thread) to qualify as "ranting and raving"; indeed, his comments generally seem quite fair, if blunt.
I've put out a couple of open source fonts, or attempts at fonts, in my time, and I'd be the first to say that they're not up to standard. (I haven't listed them in this thread for good reason!) They were initially designed for my own purposes, at a time when I was totally blundering about blind in terms of design know-how (especially Workplace) - and boy, does it show. I didn't even know what a counter was, let alone understand the first thing about proportion and colour. I've been slowly trying to improve them through constant revision, but looking back at earlier versions makes me want to bang my head against the wall.
Suzuran, which has a modest thread going in the serif Critique forum, is my first serious attempt to design a font that I wouldn't be embarrassed to let real designers see. I have no idea if I could ever get it to a stage where it would be worth a commercial release, but profit isn't my motivation at the moment anyway.
I guess my point is that a commercial (i.e. cost-money) font is automatically more likely to be competently designed, because if it wasn't it wouldn't be able to sustain itself as a product. Hobbyists designing for fun and education, as I've been, will by default tend to release their work for free if at all.
@Renaissance Man – FOSS is neither undocumented nor badly documented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software
@Hrant – Do you really think you're the world's only priesthood? And, yes, I noted on re-reading my last that I was saying so. Mea culpa. (That means 'my fault', @Renaissance Man.)
Version 1.1 of the font list key coming up:
Legend:
Fonts:
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight
Th Thin weight
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Norm Normal width
SExp Semi-Expanded width
Exp Expanded width
Format:
FON Windows bitmap font
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera
Version 1.1 (and hopefully stable) of the ADF font/face list:
Noted peculiarities in ADF fonts/faces: 1. AE, Ae, ae, OE, Oe and oe are ligated globally via 'rlig'. - - 8< - - Typeface: Accanthis ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.008 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Light, airy serif; resembles Cloister OldStyle Typeface: Accanthis ADF No2 Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.008 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Light, airy serif; quite garaldish Typeface: Accanthis ADF No3 Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.008 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Blend of Accanthis and Accanthis No2 Typeface: Aurelis ADF No2 Fonts: 7: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, script I in Cond,Norm,Exp Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.008 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Calligraphic feel Typeface: Baskervald ADF Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/Hv/HvO Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.018 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Serif, designed as a Baskerville Typeface: Berenis ADF Pro Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Serif, didone-style Typeface: Electrum ADF Exp Fonts: 8: Lt/LtO/Rg/RgO/SB/SBO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Square, monoline slab-serif; City-like Typeface: Garamond No 8 OSSC Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/SB/SBI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: T1 Licensing: AFPL Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: OSF/SC supplement for URW Garamond No 8 Typeface: Gillius ADF Fonts: 8: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI in Cond,Norm Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.009 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Sans-serif, heavily based on Gill Sans Typeface: Gillius ADF No2 Fonts: 8: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI in Cond,Norm Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.009 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Sans-serif, heavily based on Gill Sans Typeface: Ikarius ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.006 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Vestigial serif, inspired by Hypatia Sans Typeface: Ikarius ADF No2 Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.006 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Vestigial serif, var. on Ikarius ADF Typeface: Irianis ADF Fonts: 4(TTC),8(OTF): Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI with separate OSF/SC fonts in OTF Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.006 Format: TTC,OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: A Caslon-like serif Typeface: Irianis ADF Math Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.006 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Irialis ADF with math supplement Typeface: Keypad ADF, Keypad ADF No2 Fonts: 2 Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Pi fonts with keycaps, white and black Typeface: Libris ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.007 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Calligraphic sans-serif, resembles Lydian a lot Typeface: Mekanus ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Slab serif with a typewriter feel Typeface: Mekanus ADF Titling Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Slab serif with a typewriter feel Typeface: MintSpirit ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.004 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL 1.1 Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Sans-serif, blends Ubuntu with Gill Sans Typeface: MintSpirit ADF No2 Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.004 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL 1.1 Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Sans-serif, blends Ubuntu with Gill Sans Typeface: Mintysis ADF Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.002 Format: TTF Licensing: OFL 1.1 Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: TrueType version of MintSpirit ADF Typeface: Neogothis ADF Fonts: 12: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/SB/SBI/Bd/BdI/Hv/HvI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Monoline sans-serif, Bauhaus/Kabel feel Typeface: Oldania ADF Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.006 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Medieval, scribe-like Typeface: Ornements ADF Fonts: 2: One for each format Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Pi font with clefs, hederae and other ornaments Typeface: Romande ADF Fonts: 7: Rg/RgI/SB/SBI, with Script in I and OSF/SC in Rg/SB Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.010 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Serif with elements of Tiffany and Caslon Typeface: Romande ADF No2 Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/SB/SBI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.010 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Serif with elements of Tiffany and Caslon Typeface: Solothurn ADF Fonts: 6: Rg/RgO/Md/MdO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.004 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Monoline sans-serif novelty face Typeface: Switzera ADF Fonts: 24: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/SB/SBI/Bd/BdI/XB/XBI, Cond(Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/SB/SBI/Bd/BdI), Exp(Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI) Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Variations on Bitstream Vera Sans: Cond,Norm,Exp Typeface: Symbol ADF Fonts: 4: Arrows/Bullets in either format Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Pi face of arrows and bullets Typeface: Tribun ADF Fonts: 12: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/XB/XBI, Cond(Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI), Exp(Rg/RgI) Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.017 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Serif, very similar to Times New Roman Typeface: Universalis ADF Fonts: 8: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI in Cond,Norm Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.009 Format: OTF,WOFF Licensing: GPL2+ with font exception Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Geometric sans-serif, inspired by Futura Typeface: URW Classico OSSC Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: T1 Licensing: AFPL Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: OSF/SC supplement for URW Classico Typeface: URW Palladio OSSC Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: T1 Licensing: AFPL Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: OSF/SC supplement for URW Palladio Typeface: Venturis ADF Fonts: 18: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI for all, plus Hv/HvI for Norm Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Norm,Cond,Style,Cond Style Typeface: Venturis ADF Math Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.001 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Venturis with math supplement Typeface: Venturis ADF No2 Fonts: 12: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI for all Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond, Norm, Medium weight Typeface: Venturis ADF Old Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Garalde cues Typeface: Venturis ADF Sans Fonts: 18: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI for all, plus Hv/HvI for Norm Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Vestigial serif variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond,Norm,Exp and Light weight Typeface: Venturis ADF Sans No2 Fonts: 12: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI for each width Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Vestigial serif variations on Adobe Utopia: Cond,Norm,Exp Typeface: Venturis ADF Titling Fonts: 5: Varying widths and decoration Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.005 Format: OTF Licensing: Utopia Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Variations on Adobe Utopia: Cap/smallcap titling fonts Typeface: Verana Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.002 Format: OTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Bitstream Vera variant Typeface: Verana Sans Fonts: 8: Rg/RgO/Md/MdO/SB/SBO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Arkandis Digital Foundry (ADF) Home: http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/ Version: 1.002 Format: OTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Hirwen Harendal Description: Bitstream Vera Sans variant
Awesome. Some questions.
Is there a logic to the pattern of some acronyms using a capital and lowercase (Lr) , and some using two capital letters (UL)?
Instincts tell me V1.1 won’t be the last time we see this (hopefully ever-growing) list :).
Format:
FON Windows bitmap font
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
You could consider adding:
TTC TrueType Collection
MM/MMM Multiple Master
EOT Embedded OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics
Is there a logic to the pattern of some acronyms using a capital and lowercase (Lr) , and some using two capital letters (UL)?
This distinguishes between abbreviations for single word descriptions of weight/style, such as Hairline (Hr) and multiple word or part descriptions, such as Ultra Light (UL).
@Karl – *blink* *blink* Aiyah! I b4y forgot TTC! And there is a set of TTCs in the list! Major bug!
Do multi-master fonts appear in other formats than T1? Or would T1M and/or T1MM cover it all?
v1.2 of key:
Legend:
Fonts:
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight
Th Thin weight
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Norm Normal width
SExp Semi-Expanded width
Exp Expanded width
Format:
EOT Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
FON Windows bitmap font
MF D. Knuth's Metafont
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
TTC TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream VeraCut the "priesthood" crap. People don't have to come together simply to control others; I'm here to learn and help along the things I love. I can do this better by outing poor logic and bad fonts.
Again: it's about quality, which comes from talent and effort. Don't shoot the messenger.
hhp
Do multi-master fonts appear in other formats than T1? Or would T1M and/or T1MM cover it all?
They are mostly used for production work these days and I have never seen them offered in this context... Probably best to get some other input on that one.
Don’t shoot the messenger
Sage advice: http://www.typophile.com/node/98032
@Karl – A group called Apostrophic Labs did have some multi-master fonts for public consumption. They were all T1 as far as I can tell.
A group called Apostrophic Labs did have some multi-master fonts for public consumption. They were all T1 as far as I can tell.
Funny you should mention them, I have been looking at some of their stuff today. It is a little patchy trying to find a good source but I have managed to find a combination of sources, with the one below seeming to be the closest thing to a point of origination:
http://apostrophiclab.pedroreina.net/
The links on that page lead to a combination of Windows Type 1, Windows TrueType and Mac Type 1 fonts. I haven't checked all of them but so far no multiple masters.
As an aside, the Apostrophic Labs guy (in effect not really a "group") was a well-known heavy-duty thief back in the day.
hhp
As an aside, the Apostrophic Labs guy (in effect not really a "group") was a well-known heavy-duty thief back in the day.
Of font IP or something more physical?
Nothing physical that I know of. BTW you don't buy a house with anything physical either. :-)
hhp
BTW you don't buy a house with anything physical either. :-)
True, but your description brought to mind the image of someone climbing out of a window with a TV in the middle of the night (and I do realise that this alone does not necessarily imply theft) : )
Somebody please steal my TV!
hhp
Somebody please steal my TV!
Go rock star, throw it out the window! That or subtly break it...
Next version of the key:
Version: 1.3
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Legend:
Fonts:
S Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
U Short form of the adjective Ultra-
X Short form of the adjective Extra-
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight (L with adjective)
Th Thin weight (T with adjective)
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight (B with adjective)
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Comp Compressed width
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Narr Narrow width
Norm Normal width
SExpd Semi-Expanded width
Expd Expanded width
Format:
ADF Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
EOT Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
FON Windows bitmap font
MF D. Knuth's Metafont
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
T1MM PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
TTC TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
IK Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream VeraAIM listing, first version:
Version: 1.0 - - 8< - - Typeface: Cankama Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.20 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: English blackletter, like Cloister Black Typeface: Carita Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.10 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Caps/smallcaps (Carolus) Typeface: Garava Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/Hv Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.60 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, feels Goudy-ish Typeface: Guru Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.61 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, Garamond-style Typeface: Hattha Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/Bd Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.20 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Blockwriting, nicer than Comic Sans Typeface: Kabala Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.40 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, Kabel-style Typeface: Lekhana Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.40 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Script, closest to Zapf Calligraphic Typeface: Mandala Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.31 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, kin to Bauhaus Typeface: Odana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.20 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Heavy pen-script (Bodacious/Calligrapher) Typeface: Pali Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.71 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Palatino Typeface: Talapanna Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.41 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Goudy Bertham Typeface: Veluvana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.31 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Wedge- or leaf-like display face Typeface: Verajja Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 3.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, Bitstream Vera Typeface: Verajja Serif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.20 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Slab-serif, Bitstream Vera Serif Typeface: VerajjaPDA Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.70 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, cut-down Verajja
Crud Factory listing, first version:
Version: 1.0 - - 8< - - Typeface: Bonveno CF Fonts: 1: Lt Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 1.1.2 Format: OTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Geometric sans-serif Typeface: Fanwood Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 1.1 Format: OTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, based on Fairfield Typeface: Fanwood Text Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 1.1 Format: OTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: A text cut of Fanwood Typeface: Goudy Bookletter 1911 Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 2010.07.03 Format: OTF,TTF Licensing: PD/WTFPL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, based on Kennerley Old Style Typeface: Juvelo Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: PD/WTFPL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Slab-serif, inspired by Diethelm-Antiqua Typeface: Linden Hill Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 1.2 Format: OTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, based on Goudy's Deepdene Typeface: Prociono Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 2.3 Format: OTF,TTF Licensing: PD/WTFPL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, hints of Leipziger Antiqua Typeface: Prociono CF Fonts: 2: Rg and Rg with more default ligatures Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Older, wider-spaced, version of Prociono Typeface: Sorts Mill Goudy Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://crudfactory.com/ Version: 3.1 Format: OTF,TTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, based on Goudy Old Style Typeface: Sorts Mill Jannon Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/ Version: 0.1 Format: OTF,TTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, based on Goudy's Garamont Typeface: Sorts Mill Kis Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: The Crud Factory Home: http://chemoelectric.deviantart.com/ Version: 0.1 Format: OTF,TTF Licensing: MITL Designer: Barry Schwartz Description: Serif, book face in Janson/Kis style (WIP)
Best link for Barry Schwartz's fonts is
http://browse.deviantart.com/?q=gallery%3Achemoelectric%2F501050
Sorts Mill Kis otf Regular has 7,490 kerning pairs; Italic, 14,147!
Sorts Mill Kis ttf fonts have no kerning pairs.
And I thought I was bad at spacing ;-)
Look at that "rt". :-/
If you put monkeys on a font editor long enough you will end up with a properly spaced font. Clearly in this case the monkeys were simply not given enough time.
hhp
Since it was never defined, WIP = Work In Progress
Typeface: Capitalis Minimalis Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Poor man's Capitalis Monumentalis Typeface: Fabrik Fonts: 8: Rg/RgI/SB/Bd/Bl, Cond(Rg/Bd), Footnote Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.3 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Coarse, unrefined, geometric sans-serif Typeface: Grabstein Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Narrow, squarish sans-serif, based on headstone inscriptions Typeface: Jakob Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd, Smallcaps Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.8 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Geometric sans-serif for signs, inspired by Erbar Grotesk Typeface: Mops Antiqua Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Serif, similar to Meeks's Chesterfield Antique Typeface: Plakative Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.6 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Sans-serif in light Inserat style Typeface: Saarland Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.3 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Sans-serif, init. based on 1930s' propaganda type Typeface: Schilder Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Squarish sans-serif, based on old Karlsruhe street signage Typeface: St32k Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Heavier St37k, works as smallcaps with same Typeface: St37k Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.5 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: All-caps, display, based on R. Koch's Stahl Typeface: Tattoo U Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.0 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: All-upper display face with loops
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Using Jakob as an example:
"The fonts (without source code) are also on abstractfonts.com from: http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/15019"
Jakob: "ChangeLog 17.12.2010 Version 1.8 added [T|t]horn, Section, ... Kernig [sic] and width adjusted!"
I found no NO kerning.
I found NO otf fonts, and T1 fonts have only afm and pfb files but no pfm files.
Fabrik otf has 569 kerning pairs (all styles). All styles of Fabrik ttf have no kerning pairs. T1 has no pfm files.
Instead of complaining, why not contributing?
1. One risks discrepancies when working off-line with other folks' data, especially when one should be sleeping.
2. FontForge defaults to Unix conventions for T1 fonts: AFM/PFA or AFM/PFB. AFM-to-PFM conversion utilities exist.
@Pablo – As much as it sounds like kvetching, much of it was information I needed. I found I was two subversions behind on Fabrik, for fanen!
Edit 1:
The Fabrik TTFs I have (from a fresh download) have 570–571 kerning pairs, according to my .fea (OpenType feature file) dumps. Their instructing, however, is very limited.
Next iteration of the TypoShop ubs list:
Version: 1.1 - - 8< - - Typeface: Capitalis Minimalis Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Poor man's Capitalis Monumentalis Typeface: Fabrik Fonts: 7: Rg/RgI/Bd/Bl, Cond(Rg/Bd), Footnote Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.5 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Coarse, unrefined, geometric sans-serif Typeface: Grabstein Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Narrow, squarish sans-serif, based on headstone inscriptions Typeface: Jakob Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd, Smallcaps Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.8 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Geometric sans-serif for signs, inspired by Erbar Grotesk Typeface: Mops Antiqua Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Serif, similar to Meeks's Chesterfield Antique Typeface: Plakative Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.6 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Sans-serif in light Inserat style Typeface: Saarland Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.3 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Sans-serif, init. based on 1930s' propaganda type Typeface: Schilder Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1 Format: T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Squarish sans-serif, based on old Karlsruhe street signage Typeface: St32k Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.2 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Heavier St37k, works as smallcaps with same Typeface: St37k Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.5 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: All-caps, display, based on R. Koch's Stahl Typeface: Tattoo U Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.0 Format: T1,TTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: All-upper display face with loops
First revision of the Fell Types list:
Version: 1.0 Peculiarities: OTF and TTF may both be installed at the same time due to slight naming differences - - 8< - - Typeface: IM Fell Double Pica Fonts: 3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter de Walpergen Description: 21-pt headline face Typeface: IM Fell DW Pica Fonts: 3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter de Walpergen Description: 12.5-pt text face Typeface: IM Fell English Fonts: 3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Roman, small-caps: Christoffel van Dijck (?), Italic: Robert Granjon (?) Description: 13.5-pt text face Typeface: IM Fell French Canon Fonts: 3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter de Walpergen Description: 39-pt display face Typeface: IM Fell Flowers 1 Fonts: 1 Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: R. Granjon Description: 25-pt flower borders Typeface: IM Fell Flowers 2 Fonts: 1 Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: R. Granjon Description: 17.5-pt flowers and ornaments Typeface: IM Fell Great Primer Fonts: 3 (TTF), 2 (OTF): Rg/RgI, separate smallcaps in TTF Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter de Walpergen Description: 17-pt headline face Typeface: IM Fell Three Line Pica Fonts: 1 Foundry: Igino Marini Home: http://www.iginomarini.com/fell/ Version: 3.00 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter de Walpergen Description: 48-pt majuscule-only display face
> AFM-to-PFM conversion utilities exist
Yes, but they either require considerable human intervention, or they produce pretty lousy results. The AFM does not contain various Windows-specific info that goes into a PFM, such as menu names and style linking.
*shrugs* Way beyond my expertise. I'm still scratching the surface of what FontForge can be scripted to do.
re: PFB+AFM
Fonts distributed that way used to include an .INF file containing the menu names and style linking. Such distributions could be converted to PFM+PFB with the now absent Adobe Type Manager (ATM).
I know of no utility or simple method under current operating systems for the average consumer to do this? (I.e., someone without FontLab and technical knowledge of how to copy the .inf info into the font manually.
Hmm. I seem to remember a similar conversation with Tom 3-4 years ago in the Adobe typography forum … which is now effectively defunct.
- Herb
Which was my point exactly. No pfm files = no T1.
Funny thing about PFMs... all they are good for on a Unix system is to gen an AFM file.
So does opensource mean it can be used for anything? Commerical purposes, etc?
> So does opensource mean it can be used for anything? Commerical purposes, etc?
Yep
There's a utility called AfmToPfm which purports to create PFM files from AFM and INF files.
Next iteration of the key:
Version: 1.4
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Legend:
Fonts:
S Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
U Short form of the adjective Ultra-
X Short form of the adjective Extra-
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight (L with adjective)
Th Thin weight (T with adjective)
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight (B with adjective)
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Comp Compressed width
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Narr Narrow width
Norm Normal width
SExpd Semi-Expanded width
Expd Expanded width
Format:
ADF Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
EOT Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
FON Windows bitmap font
MF D. Knuth's Metafont
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font)
T1MM PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
TTC TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
IK Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
GUST The Polish TeX Users Group licence; Polish LPPL
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream VeraFirst iteration of Greek Font Society list:
Version: 1.0 Peculiarities: 1. Licensing does not always match between OTF and TTF versions. 2. Many faces lack Latin characters. - - 8< - - Typeface: GFS Ambrosia Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only, early Christian style Typeface: GFS Artemisia Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL (OTF), freeware (TTF) Designer: Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos Description: A very Greek Times Typeface: GFS Baskerville Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Sophia Kalaitzidou, George Matthiopoulos Description: Greek Baskerville Typeface: GFS Bodoni Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL (OTF), freeware (TTF) Designer: Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos Description: What new can be said about a Bodoni? Typeface: GFS Bodoni Classic Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: ? Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Greek Bodoni Typeface: GFS Complutum Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.000 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Based on de Brocar's type for the Complutensian Bible Typeface: GFS Decker Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.000 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Uncial, resembles a humanist sans-serif Typeface: GFS Didot Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos Description: Latin chars based on Palatino Typeface: GFS Didot Classic Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Firmin Didot Description: Greek didone Typeface: GFS Elpis Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Natasha Raissaki Description: Recent serif, attempts to harmonise Greek and Latin Typeface: GFS Eustace Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only, Byzantine woodcut style Typeface: GFS Fleischman Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only, recut of J.M. Fleischman's mid-18th century cut Typeface: GFS Garaldus Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only garalde Typeface: GFS Gazis Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: 1790s German style Typeface: GFS Goschen Fonts: 1: RgI Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: ? Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Recut of G.J. Göschen's cursive face Typeface: GFS Ignacio Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.000 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only Typeface: GFS Jackson Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only, recut of J. Jackson's design for Cambridge Uni. Typeface: GFS Neohellenic Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL (OTF), unknown (TTF) Designer: Takis Katsoulidis, George Matthiopoulos Description: Based on Lanston Monotype's New Hellenic Typeface: GFS Nicefore Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Majuscule-only, 5th-7th century Byzantine style Typeface: GFS Olga Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Based on Porson, inclined companion to GFS Didot Classic Typeface: GFS Philostratos Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.000 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Maurice Eduard Pinder Description: Recut of Griechische Antiqua Typeface: GFS Porson Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: TTF,OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Based on Monotype's cut but with Porson's upright majuscules Typeface: GFS Pyrsos Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Heavily inclined, Typeface: GFS Solomos Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.000 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos Description: Mid-19th century Greek Inclined Typeface: GFS Theokritos Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Greek Font Society Home: http://www.greekfontsociety.gr Version: 1.0 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: George Matthiopoulos, Leoni Vidali Description: Heavy, ornate, based on Yannis Kefallinos's work
First iteration of George Douros font list:
Version: 1.0 - - 8< - - Typeface: Aegean Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.04 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Large collection of Aegean/Mediterranean scripts Typeface: Aegyptus Fonts: 2: Rg, Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: A large set of hieroglyphs Typeface: Akkadian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.04 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Various ancient scripts, lots of cuneiform Typeface: Alexander Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Alexander Wilson's Greek and Garamond-based Latin and Cyrillic Typeface: Alfios Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Didot's and Porson's minuscules, everything else new Typeface: Anaktoria Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Grecs du Roi Greek, Shakespeare First Folio Latin, all else new Typeface: Analecta Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Ecclesiastical scripts Typeface: Anatolian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Anatolian hieroglyphs Typeface: Aroania Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Based on Scholderer/Monotype's New Hellenic Typeface: Asea Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.14 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Various ancient scripts Typeface: Atavyros Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Granjon's Parangonne Greque with Goudy Latin/Cyrillic Typeface: Avdira Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Damilas's and Porson's Greek minuscules, all else new Typeface: Gardiner Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Alan Gardiner's hieroglyph set Typeface: Maya Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.06 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: J.E.S. Thompson's Mayan glyph catalogue fonted Typeface: Musica Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.06 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Basic Latin/Greek/Coptic, various music symbols Typeface: Symbola Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.06 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Symbold in Unicode et al... Typeface: Unidings Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.fr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.04 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Glyphs and icons for Unicode Blocks...
First iteration of Janus Nowacki list:
Version: 1.0 - - 8< - - Typeface: Antykwa Półtawskiego Fonts: 20: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI in Cond/SCond/Norm/SExpd/Expd Foundry: Janusz Marian Nowacki Home: http://jmn.pl/en Version: 1.101 Format: TTF,OTF,TeX Licensing: GUST,LPPL Designer: Adam Półtawski Description: Serif, bouncy design Typeface: Antykwa Toruńska Fonts: 16: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Bd/BdI in Cond/Norm Foundry: Janusz Marian Nowacki Home: http://jmn.pl/en Version: 2.08 Format: TTF,OTF,TeX Licensing: GUST,LPPL Designer: Zygfryd Gardzielewski Description: Serif with curvy diagonals Typeface: Cyklop Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: Janusz Marian Nowacki Home: http://jmn.pl/en Version: 0.91 Format: TTF,OTF,TeX Licensing: GUST,LPPL Designer: Odlewnia Czcionek J. Idzkowski i S-ka Description: Very heavy, high-contrast face; half-disc tittles Typeface: Iwona Fonts: 20: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Md/MdI/Hv/HvI in Cond/Norm Foundry: Janusz Marian Nowacki Home: http://jmn.pl/en Version: 0.995 Format: TTF,OTF,TeX Licensing: GUST,LPPL Designer: Janusz Nowacki Description: Kurier without the ink traps Typeface: Kurier Fonts: 20: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Md/MdI/Hv/HvI in Norm/Cond Foundry: Janusz Marian Nowacki Home: http://jmn.pl/en Version: 0.995 Format: TTF,OTF,TeX Licensing: GUST,LPPL Designer: Małgorzata Budyta Description: Sans-serif, contrasty, humanist-style
@Té: I can’t help but think what all your work would look like in a high-ceiling gallery printed out on a reeeally looong piece of old dot-matrix printer paper. Heck, have it printing while the gallery and it’s now a performance. Throw in a bit about your troubled childhood, feminist theory, public versus private space, being comfortable in your own skin, and use the phrase “in and of itself” a lot and you’ve got an MFA thesis. Possibly a Canada Council grant too.
You have single-handedly contributed far more to this thread then I thought possible from the entire community. Please keep it up. I am actively following (is that an oxy-moron?).
(you could also do it on the green striped paper and talk about the environment and sustainability. Tape the end of the long piece of printer paper to the beginning to form a giant loop and now you can talk about infinity &c.)
Oh, heck, no! I'm not cataloguing that! :-)
@Chris – Were I not long since out of fanfold and both the Microline 80 and the QL not dead as a doornail, I might think of composing a bit of performance art.
This is a slight divergence but still I think on-topic (and since I can't start new threads this is the best I can do)...
I've recently downloaded and am trying to classify the GhostPCL fonts which URW++ donated to Artifex software under the free Aladdin license. They don't seem to be as widely known or disseminated as the 35 "core GhostScript" fonts similar donated by URW++, but they provide open source implementations of some very nice faces. Mostly they seem designed to fill in some of the gaps in the PostScript v3 core set when taken together with the GhostScript fonts.
However, I'm having trouble clearly identifying one or two... and I'm not entirely clear on the distinction between some of them.
The name in "quotes" is the family name stored in the font file.
- "A028" (this looks a lot like Albertus but I think it's slightly different... does anyone know for sure?)
- "A030" and "NimbusSanL" both appear to be Helvetica clones, which seems oddly redundant. Is there a distinction that I'm missing?
- "AntiqueOlive" (Antique Olive, obviously)
- "ArtLinePrinter" (actually, this seems to be an original Aladdin Software creation, not URW's work at all)
- "CenturySchL" (Century Schoolbook implementation)
- "ClarendonURW" (Clarendon, only Bold Condensed weight included)
- "Coronet" (Coronet)
- "Dingbats" (Wingdings clone)
- "GaramondNo8" (this is a rather nice Garamond, but I'm not sure if it's an original URW interpretation or not. At least, I can't perfectly match it up to one of the well-known Garamond designs that I've looked at.)
- "LetterGothic" (Letter Gothic)
- "Mauritius" (Mauritius)
- "NimbusMonL" and "NimbusMono" are both included (both Courier clones). Again, what's the distinction?
- "NimbusRomanNo4", "NimbusRomanNo9", and "NimbusRomNo9L" (three apparent Times New Roman clones. In fact, there are subtle differences between the three, but does anyone know what the justification for each one is?)
- "NimbusSanLCond" (clone Helvetica Condensed or Helvetica Narrow... not totally certain which)
- "StandardSymL" (Symbol)
- "U001" (seems to be a Univers clone)
- "U001Con" (similarly, a Univers Condensed clone)
- "URWBookmanL" (Bookman)
- "URWChanceryL" (Zapf Chancery)
- "URWClassico" (Optima)
- "URWGothicL" (Avant Garde Gothic)
- "URWPalladioL" (Palatino)
"NimbusRomanNo4", "NimbusRomanNo9", and "NimbusRomNo9L" (three apparent Times New Roman clones. In fact, there are subtle differences between the three, but does anyone know what the justification for each one is?)
Sorry to reply to myself, but on further inspection, I should amend this. All three Nimbus Roman types appear to be based on Linotype Times Roman. Some interesting differences between the three, however:
- No9 L is almost imperceptibly lighter than the other two but in different ways: No9 seems to have fractionally darker vertical strokes, whereas No4 has fractionally darker horizontals.
- No9 has italicized Greek characters, whereas both No9L and No4 have regular ones. (No9L also supports only those Greek characters appearing in the Latin-1 charset, whereas the other two have more.)
- I believe No4 has a very (very) slightly lower caps height than the other two.
As far as "A030" and "Nimbus Sans L", the latter supports Cyrillic while the former does not. They otherwise seem largely identical, although I haven't done a rigorous inspection.
I apologize if all this seems pedantic but I haven't been able to find much other information on the lineage of these various faces (esp. Nimbus Roman). Wikipedia isn't very informative, and Google mostly seems to have download links rather than background.
@altsan: Why can’t you start a new thread? Are you following the proper steps? There appears to be nothing wrong with your account…
Send me an email and we can start a screenshare so I can watch what is happening in real time.
I was planning to (try to) sort out the Ghostscript fonts once the local general store brought in some round tuits...
A028 looks like the images I have seen of Albertus, but the 'M' is deeper.
A030... Nimbus Mono with some Arial slathered on?
The closest match I have ever found to Garamond No8 is Bitstream's "Original Garamond BT", and both look similar to Stempel Garamond.
References for later use:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts (PS and PS3 fonts)
http://www.sabi.co.uk/Notes/linuxFonts.html (Fonts on Linux)
Libre Baskerville, just released:
http://www.impallari.com/projects/overview/libre-baskerville
@Chris Well I'll be mogadored, I tried yet again and it worked this time! Maybe you managed to get TPTB to do the magic incantation; if so, thanks! I sure didn't do anything differently this time around...
I'll see if it keeps working, anyway. :)
Thank you again.
http://www.impallari.com/projects/update/86
- Regular, Italic and Bold styles
- All iKerned
- Initial v1.0 release
I found ZERO kerning pairs.
Renaissance Man:
We have used GPOS based kerning, instead of the old Kerning table.
So the 'kern' table is no longer present.
All the kerning pairs are contained only into the 'kern' OT feature.
This method is better for web-fonts since you get a smaller file size, and the font will load faster on the web.
I've updated the description now, to make it clear and avoid confusions.
You can easily list the GPOS/GSUB features contained in a font with the line command otfinfo -f (otfinfo comes with MacTeX and, I presume, with texlive for the PC); here are just three options for otfinfo (there are many more):
Usage: otfinfo [-sfzpg | OPTIONS] [OTFFILES...] Query options: -s, --scripts Report font’s supported scripts. -f, --features Report font’s GSUB/GPOS features. -z, --optical-size Report font’s optical size information.
and here is the relevant trace:
517 % otfinfo -f LibreBaskerville-Regular.ttf dlig Discretionary Ligatures frac Fractions kern Kerning liga Standard Ligatures ordn Ordinals sinf Scientific Inferiors sups Superscript 518 %
Michel Boyer
@Pablo – A few files in the archive (*.txt and the Italic sources) had the mode 755 instead of 644. Maybe OS-X has some strange uses for the exe-bits I know nothing of...
Anyway, seems it's testing time. (Chibi-Rowan rubs 's tiny little chibi-hands together in glee, a manic grin on 's chibified face...)
...flop...
Here is... the first draft of... the CAT Design list...
Version: 1.0
Codings:
Wiegel: P. Wiegel's old code for German special glyphs
UNZ1: Subset of MUFI, details PUA codes for German special glyphs
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Typeface: 18th Century Kurrent
Fonts: 3: Text, Start (alternate init forms), Initials
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Alfabilder
Fonts: 1: Pi
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet
Typeface: Amptmann Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SWG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings
Typeface: ApolloASM
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin
Typeface: Avocado
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style
Typeface: Berlin Email
Fonts: 8: Rg/SB/Bd/Hv, alt. Rg, Shadow (Rg), Outline (Rg), Wide (Sb)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit; Rg only)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Berlin Email Serif
Fonts: 3: Rg/SB, Shadow (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Beroga
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope
Typeface: Berthold Mainzer Fraktur
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Blankenburg
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Casa Sans
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd (Bold only in TTF)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing
Typeface: CatShop
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone
Typeface: cbe Normal
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform
Typeface: Centre Claws
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgO, Beam(Rg) which is shaded
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway
Typeface: Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley)
Fonts: 2: Rg, both upright and slanting
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding
Typeface: DiffiKult
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines
Typeface: DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font
Typeface: Discipuli Britannica
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: UK school handwriting
Typeface: Doergon
Fonts: 3: Regular, Shift (left-shadowed), Backshift (right-shadowed)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule
Typeface: Elabris (Elbaris)
Fonts: 2: Regular and Outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift
Typeface: Elb-Tunnel
Fonts: 2: Regular and Schatten (shaded)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg
Typeface: Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon,Elfic Caslin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: A Caslon for the Queen Galadriel
Typeface: Erika Type (Erica Type)
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter
Typeface: Eureka
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Herrmann Poppelbaum (1905), Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil
Typeface: Fibel Nord
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Süd (Fibel Sued)
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Vienna
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer
Typeface: Fundamental Brigade
Fonts: 5: Lt/Rg/Bd, Cond (Rg), 3D (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures
Typeface: Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur)
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt (1901), Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Gondrini (Gondrin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter
Typeface: Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Greifswalder Tengwar
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style
Typeface: Gruenewald VA
Fonts: 3: 1. Klasse, 3. Klasse, Normal, sll Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.007
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit - Normal only)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Dr. Heinrich Grünewald (1970s), Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding
Typeface: H1N1
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made of parallel wavetrains
Typeface: Hardman
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters
Typeface: Helvetia Verbundene
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Swiss handwriting
Typeface: Immermann
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Kaufhalle
Fonts: 2: HO and Blech, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype
Typeface: Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur
Fonts: 3: Rg/Bd/Hv
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text
Typeface: Luxembourg 1910
Fonts: 3: Normal, Contur (hollow), Ombre (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Jugendstil display face from old spice drawers
Typeface: Maass Slicer (Maassslicer)
Fonts: 2: Normal and 3D (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype
Typeface: Makushka
Fonts: 4: Normal, Kontura (hollow), Quadriga, Secunda
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable
Typeface: Men Nefer
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bk
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Midroba
Fonts: 2: Normal and shaded, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx/OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal
Typeface: MMX2010
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel
Typeface: Moderne Schwabacher
Fonts: 3: Fett, 3D (shaded), Gekippt (tipped over)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Möbius (moebius)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)
Typeface: Morado
Fonts: 4: Sharp,Nib,Felt,Marker; all Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen
Typeface: Murrx
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis
Typeface: Mutter Krause
Fonts: 3: Rg,SB,Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel.
Typeface: Nathan
Fonts: 8: Cond,Norm,SExpd,Expd; each with an alternate set
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, hand-drawn.
Typeface: Nomatais (Nomitais)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Elabris with multiple levels of outlines
Typeface: Numukki
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks
Typeface: Powerweld
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF
Licensing: CCPL (details ?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule
Typeface: Präsent 60
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various East German logos
Typeface: Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3
Typeface: Preussische VI 9
Fonts: 5: Filled, outline, outline with shade, outline with outlined shade, shade
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2
Typeface: Proletarsk
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark
Typeface: Quast
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline
Typeface: Quimbie
Fonts: 4: Regular, UH, 3D, Shaddow (T1 has only Regular and UH)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia
Typeface: Quirkus
Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Out (thick outline), Upside Down (rotated in place)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif
Typeface: Ring Matrix
Fonts: 3: Normal, Two and 3D
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow
Typeface: Rostock Kaligraph
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in webkit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda
Typeface: Rotunda Pommerania
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded
Typeface: Rudelskopf deutsch
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms
Typeface: Schwaben Alt
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 3.5
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.
Typeface: Stage
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway
Typeface: Strassburg Fraktur
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ? (GPLfx,OFL)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding
Typeface: Tank
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos
Typeface: TengwarOptime
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Let's say... Optima for Tengwar
Typeface: TGL 0-16/0-17
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI, alternate Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types
Typeface: TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types
Typeface: Utusi Star
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk
Typeface: Varieté
Fonts: 16: Shades, outlines, rotated, mirrored...
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps
Typeface: Vis-A-Vis
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle
Typeface: Volk Redis
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941
Typeface: Vrångö
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix type like Ring Matrix
Typeface: Waschküche
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, resembles Antykwa Torunska
Typeface: Wiegel Kurrent
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting
Typeface: Wiegel Latein
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style handwriting
Typeface: Wolgast Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-2.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen
Typeface: Wolgast Two
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin/Cyrillic handwriting
Typeface: XAyax
Fonts: 2: Filled and outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule
Typeface: Yiggivoo Unicode
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI in Norm and 3D (shaded outline)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel
Typeface: Youbilee
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various jubilee laurels
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen)
Fonts: 4: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert, Vierhundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt)
Fonts: 3: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)Next revision of the key:
Version: 1.7
Legend:
Fonts:
S Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
U Short form of the adjective Ultra-
X Short form of the adjective Extra-
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight (L with adjective)
Th Thin weight (T with adjective)
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight (B with adjective)
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Comp Compressed width
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Narr Narrow width
Norm Normal width
SExpd Semi-Expanded width
Expd Expanded width
Format:
ADF Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
EOT Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
FON Windows bitmap font
MF D. Knuth's Metafont
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font), seen in Mac, Unix and Windows flavours
T1MM PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
TTC TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
IK Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
CCPL The Creative Commons Public License
DSL The Free Software Foundation's Design Science License
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
GPLfx Ditto, with 'font exception' that excludes licence inheritance via embedding
GUST The Polish TeX Users Group licence; Polish LPPL
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
UFL The Ubuntu Fint Licence
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera
Codings:
Wiegel: P. Wiegel's old code for German special glyphs
UNZ1: Subset of MUFI, details PUA codes for German special glyphs
Version:
The font/face version given is that of the Regular weight or closest equivalent.
Peculiarities:
1. In ADF faces, AE, Ae, ae, OE, Oe and oe are ligated globally via 'rlig'.
2. IM Fell OTF and TTF may both be installed at the same time due to slight naming differences.
3. Displayed licensing does not always match between OTF and TTF versions of GFS faces.
4. Many GFS faces lack Latin characters.First revision of the Miscellaneous collection:
Version: 1.0 - - 8< - - Typeface: Bitstream Vera Sans Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Sans-serif, monospaced Typeface: Bitstream Vera Serif Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Slab-serif Typeface: DejaVu Sans Fonts: 5: XL/Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Sans with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Sans Condensed Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: DejaVu Sans condensed to 90% Typeface: DejaVu Sans Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Serif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Serif with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Serif Condensed Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: DejaVu Serif condensed to 90% Typeface: FreeMono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2268 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Slab-serif, monospaced, Nimbus Mono Typeface: FreeSans Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2268 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Sans-serif, Nimbus Sans Typeface: FreeSerif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2263 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Serif, Nimbus Roman Typeface: Linux Biolinum Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/Bd Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 0.6.1 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Sans-serif, strong resemblance with Zapf's Optima Typeface: Linux Biolinum Keyboard Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 1.1.8 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Alphabetic PI font with enclosed glyphs Typeface: Linux Libertine Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/SB/SBI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.3.0 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Serif, mostly transitional Typeface: Linux Libertine Display Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.1.3 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Slightly more delicate Libertine Typeface: Linux Libertine Initials Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.0.6 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Majuscule-only serif, outlined initials Typeface: Linux Libertine Mono Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.1.7 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Monospaced Libertine Typeface: MgOpen Canonica Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Serif, Times New Roman Typeface: MgOpen Cosmetica Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif, Optima Typeface: MgOpen Modata Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif Typeface: MgOpen Moderna Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif, Helvetica Typeface: Old Standard Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/Bd Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 2.2 Format: TTF,OTF,WOFF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serif, Modern Typeface: Tempora LGC Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 0.2 Format: TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serif, Times/Nimbus Roman Typeface: Theano Fonts: 3: Didot, Modern, Old Style, all Rg Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 2.0 Format: TTF,OTF,WOFF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serifs; names indicate style Typeface: Ubuntu Fonts: 8: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Ubuntu Condensed Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Ubuntu Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif
Congrats on compiling all the info.
Your key refers to MUFI but doesn't tell what MUFI is, and defines UNZ1 in terms of MUFI.... Maybe offering links for these two items would be a good idea?
Reckon it's true. I may have intended to do so, but short-term memory tends to be just that.
Likely the last post of this year.
Next iteration of the key:
Version: 1.8
Legend:
Fonts:
S Short form of the adjective Semi- (or Demi-)
U Short form of the adjective Ultra-
X Short form of the adjective Extra-
Hr Hair-thin weight
UL Ultra-light weight
XL Extra-light weight
Lt Light weight (L with adjective)
Th Thin weight (T with adjective)
Rg Regular weight
Bk Book weight
Md Medium weight
SB Semi-bold (demi-bold) weight
Bd Bold weight (B with adjective)
XB Extra-bold weight
UB Ultra-bold weight
Hv Heavy weight
Bl Black weight
I Italic style
O Oblique style
Comp Compressed width
Cond Condensed width
SCond Semi-Condensed width
Narr Narrow width
Norm Normal width
SExpd Semi-Expanded width
Expd Expanded width
Format:
ADF Apple Distortable Font (TTF with some multi-master features)
ATM Adobe Type Manager - also used on Windows T1 fonts
EOT Embedded OpenType (Microsoft's web font format)
FON Windows bitmap font
MF D. Knuth's Metafont
T1 PostScript Type 1 (ATM font), seen in Mac, Unix and Windows flavours
T1MM PostScript Type 1 Multi-Master font
OTF CFF-flavoured OpenType
SVG Scalable Vector Graphics (useable as a font format as well)
TTC TrueType Collection (a TTF library format)
TTF TrueType or TT-flavoured OpenType
WOFF Web Open Font Format (web-only font format)
IK Work file format used by Ikarus and DTL
SFD Work file format used by FontForge
SFDir Work directory format used by FontForge
UFO Work directory format used by RoboFont and others
VFB Work file format used by Fontlab
Licensing:
AFPL The Aladdin Free Public License (Aladdin GhostScript)
Apache The Apache License
BSDL The BSD License, any version
CCPL The Creative Commons Public License
DSL The Free Software Foundation's Design Science License
GPL The Free Software Foundation's General Public License
GPL2+ Ditto, version 2 or later
GPLfx Ditto, with 'font exception' that excludes licence inheritance via embedding
GUST The Polish TeX Users Group licence; Polish LPPL
LPPL The LaTeX Project Public License
MITL The MIT License
OFL SIL's Open Font License
UFL The Ubuntu Fint Licence
Utopia Adobe's and TUG's collective Utopia licensing
Vera Bitstream's licence for the typeface Bitstream Vera
WTFPL The WTF Public License: "You may do Whatever The F* you want to with this stuff."
PD Public Domain, an extreme case of WTFPL
Codings:
Wiegel: P. Wiegel's old 8-bit code for German special glyphs
UNZ1: Subset of MUFI, details Unicode PUA codes for German special glyphs
Version:
The font/face version given is that of the Regular weight or closest equivalent.
Peculiarities:
1. In many ADF faces, AE, Ae, ae, OE, Oe and oe are ligated globally via 'rlig'.
2. IM Fell OTF and TTF may both be installed at the same time due to slight naming differences.
3. Displayed licensing does not always match between OTF and TTF versions of GFS faces.
4. Many GFS faces lack Latin characters.
Reamining random bits of information:
MUFI: Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (http://www.mufi.info/)
UNZ1: Unicode-gerechte Norm für Zusatzzeichen, Ausgabe 1 (http://www.bfds.de/)Next iteration of the Misc. list:
Version: 1.1 - - 8< - - Typeface: Bitstream Vera Sans Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Sans-serif, monospaced Typeface: Bitstream Vera Serif Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Bitstream Home: http://www-old.gnome.org/fonts/ Version: 1.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles Description: Slab-serif Typeface: DejaVu Sans Fonts: 5: XL/Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Sans with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Sans Condensed Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: DejaVu Sans condensed to 90% Typeface: DejaVu Sans Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Serif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: Bitstream Vera Serif with a wider repertory Typeface: DejaVu Serif Condensed Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: DejaVu Fonts Team Home: http://www.dejavu-fonts.org/ Version: 2.33 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Jim Lyles and Sundry Contributors Description: DejaVu Serif condensed to 90% Typeface: FreeMono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2268 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Slab-serif, monospaced, Nimbus Mono Typeface: FreeSans Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2268 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Sans-serif, Nimbus Sans Typeface: FreeSerif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: The GNU FreeFont project Home: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/freefont/ Version: 0412.2263 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx Designer: URW++ and Sundry Contributors Description: Serif, Nimbus Roman Typeface: Linux Biolinum Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/Bd Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 0.6.1 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Sans-serif, strong resemblance with Zapf's Optima Typeface: Linux Biolinum Keyboard Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 1.1.8 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Alphabetic PI font with enclosed glyphs Typeface: Linux Libertine Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/SB/SBI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.3.0 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Serif, mostly transitional Typeface: Linux Libertine Display Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.1.3 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Slightly more delicate Libertine Typeface: Linux Libertine Initials Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.0.6 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Majuscule-only serif, outlined initials Typeface: Linux Libertine Mono Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Libertine Open Fonts Project Home: http://www.linuxlibertine.org/ Version: 5.1.7 (package 5.3.0) Format: TTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll Description: Monospaced Libertine Typeface: MgOpen Canonica Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Serif, Times New Roman Typeface: MgOpen Cosmetica Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif, Optima Typeface: MgOpen Modata Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif Typeface: MgOpen Moderna Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Magenta Ltd. Home: http://pub.ellak.gr/fonts/mgopen/index.en.html Version: 1.00 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera-like Designer: ? Description: Sans-serif, Helvetica Typeface: Old Standard Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/Bd Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 2.2 Format: TTF,OTF,WOFF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serif, Modern Typeface: Tempora LGC Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 0.2 Format: TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: GPLfx Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serif, Times/Nimbus Roman Typeface: Theano Fonts: 3: Didot, Modern, Old Style, all Rg Foundry: Thessalonica Home: http://www.thessalonica.org.ru/en/fonts.html Version: 2.0 Format: TTF,OTF,WOFF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Alexey Kryukov Description: Serifs; names indicate style Typeface: Ubuntu Fonts: 8: Lt/LtI/Rg/RgI/Md/MdI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Ubuntu Condensed Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Ubuntu Mono Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Dalton Maag Ltd., Canonical Ltd. Home: http://font.ubuntu.com/ Version: 0.80 Format: TTF Licensing: UFL Designer: Dalton Maag Description: Sans-serif Typeface: Flanker Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Flanker Home: http://www.studiodilena.it/ Version: 2.027 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Flanker Description: Serif, transitional, more curves than the Nurburgring ever had! Typeface: Linear Smooth Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Flanker Home: http://www.studiodilena.it/ Version: 1,61 Format: OTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll, Flanker Description: Reworked Linux Biolinum, q.v. Typeface: Linear Smooth Low Contrast Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Flanker Home: http://www.studiodilena.it/ Version: 1.010 Format: OTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Philipp H. Poll, Flanker Description: Linear Smooth with low V/H contrast Typeface: Backwards Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne (WA2ISE) Description: A mirrored Arial for relabelling valves Typeface: catsMEOW Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics within a cat's head Typeface: Christmas Tree Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics within a fir Typeface: Comet Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics on a comet Typeface: Eggs Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics within an egg Typeface: Morse Code Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: PI font with wireless Morse code Typeface: Old Time Radio Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics within a cathedral-style radio Typeface: Saturn Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.0 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: AlphaPI font with alphanumerics within Saturn Typeface: Vacuum Tube Symbols Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: WA2ISE Home: http://www.wa2ise.com/ Version: 1.2 Format: TTF Licensing: PD Designer: Jeff Byrne Description: PI font with US-style component symbols Typeface: BPreplay Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Backpacker Home: http://www.backpacker.gr/ Version: 1.00 Format: OTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Magenta, George Triantafyllakos Description: Rework of Magenta's MoData Typeface: Acknowledgement Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: Reading Type Home: http://www.readingtype.org.uk/ Version: 1.0 Format: SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Ben Weiner Description: Slab-serif, wide, fat Typeface: Bentham Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Reading Type Home: http://www.readingtype.org.uk/ Version: 2.0 Format: TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Ben Weiner Description: Serif, didone, Baskerville, Errol Flynn... huh? Typeface: Geo Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: Reading Type Home: http://www.readingtype.org.uk/ Version: 1.1 Format: TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Ben Weiner Description: Sans-serif, square Typeface: Puritan Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Reading Type Home: http://www.readingtype.org.uk/ Version: 2.0a Format: TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Ben Weiner Description: Sans-serif, rather non-descript Typeface: Rollout Fonts: 2: Bd/BdI Foundry: Reading Type Home: http://www.readingtype.org.uk/ Version: 1.0 Format: SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Ben Weiner Description: Sans-serif, compact, Modern
Btw: They and all previous versions are published under the WTFPL.
All that's left is to suggest that you look at http://www.livefromiceland.is/ around midnight UTC. You won't see me (be thankful for small mercies), but you might well see a fireworks 'spam'.
Forgot to mention it in toto last year (uhm...), but these lists, in all previous, current and future versions, are and will be licensed under the WTFPL. Meaning? You may do Whatever The F* you want to with them.
First update of the year. CAT Design has two new fonts out: Fette Bauersche Antiqua and Manuskript Gotisch.
Version: 1.1
Codings:
Wiegel: P. Wiegel's old code for German special glyphs
UNZ1: Subset of MUFI, details PUA codes for German special glyphs
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Typeface: 18th Century Kurrent
Fonts: 3: Text, Start (alternate init forms), Initials
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Alfabilder
Fonts: 1: Pi
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet
Typeface: Amptmann Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SWG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings
Typeface: ApolloASM
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin
Typeface: Avocado
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style
Typeface: Berlin Email
Fonts: 8: Rg/SB/Bd/Hv, alt. Rg, Shadow (Rg), Outline (Rg), Wide (Sb)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit; Rg only)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Berlin Email Serif
Fonts: 3: Rg/SB, Shadow (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Beroga
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope
Typeface: Berthold Mainzer Fraktur
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Blankenburg
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Casa Sans
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd (Bold only in TTF)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing
Typeface: CatShop
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone
Typeface: cbe Normal
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform
Typeface: Centre Claws
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgO, Beam(Rg) which is shaded
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway
Typeface: Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley)
Fonts: 2: Rg, both upright and slanting
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding
Typeface: DiffiKult
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines
Typeface: DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font
Typeface: Discipuli Britannica
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: UK school handwriting
Typeface: Doergon
Fonts: 3: Regular, Shift (left-shadowed), Backshift (right-shadowed)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule
Typeface: Elabris (Elbaris)
Fonts: 2: Regular and Outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift
Typeface: Elb-Tunnel
Fonts: 2: Regular and Schatten (shaded)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg
Typeface: Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon,Elfic Caslin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: A Caslon for the Queen Galadriel
Typeface: Erika Type (Erica Type)
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter
Typeface: Eureka
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Herrmann Poppelbaum (1905), Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil
Typeface: Fette Bauersche Antiqua
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, heavy, think Poster Bodoni
Typeface: Fibel Nord
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Süd (Fibel Sued)
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Vienna
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer
Typeface: Fundamental Brigade
Fonts: 5: Lt/Rg/Bd, Cond (Rg), 3D (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures
Typeface: Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur)
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt (1901), Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Gondrini (Gondrin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter
Typeface: Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Greifswalder Tengwar
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style
Typeface: Gruenewald VA
Fonts: 3: 1. Klasse, 3. Klasse, Normal, sll Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.007
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit - Normal only)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Dr. Heinrich Grünewald (1970s), Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding
Typeface: H1N1
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made of parallel wavetrains
Typeface: Hardman
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters
Typeface: Helvetia Verbundene
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Swiss handwriting
Typeface: Immermann
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Kaufhalle
Fonts: 2: HO and Blech, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype
Typeface: Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur
Fonts: 3: Rg/Bd/Hv
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text
Typeface: Luxembourg 1910
Fonts: 3: Normal, Contur (hollow), Ombre (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Jugendstil display face from old spice drawers
Typeface: Maass Slicer (Maassslicer)
Fonts: 2: Normal and 3D (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype
Typeface: Makushka
Fonts: 4: Normal, Kontura (hollow), Quadriga, Secunda
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable
Typeface: Manuskript Gotisch
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Textur, hint of Old English, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Men Nefer
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bk
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Midroba
Fonts: 2: Normal and shaded, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx/OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal
Typeface: MMX2010
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel
Typeface: Moderne Schwabacher
Fonts: 3: Fett, 3D (shaded), Gekippt (tipped over)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Möbius (moebius)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)
Typeface: Morado
Fonts: 4: Sharp,Nib,Felt,Marker; all Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen
Typeface: Murrx
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis
Typeface: Mutter Krause
Fonts: 3: Rg,SB,Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel.
Typeface: Nathan
Fonts: 8: Cond,Norm,SExpd,Expd; each with an alternate set
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, hand-drawn.
Typeface: Nomatais (Nomitais)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Elabris with multiple levels of outlines
Typeface: Numukki
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks
Typeface: Powerweld
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF
Licensing: CCPL (details ?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule
Typeface: Präsent 60
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various East German logos
Typeface: Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3
Typeface: Preussische VI 9
Fonts: 5: Filled, outline, outline with shade, outline with outlined shade, shade
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2
Typeface: Proletarsk
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark
Typeface: Quast
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline
Typeface: Quimbie
Fonts: 4: Regular, UH, 3D, Shaddow (T1 has only Regular and UH)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia
Typeface: Quirkus
Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Out (thick outline), Upside Down (rotated in place)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif
Typeface: Ring Matrix
Fonts: 3: Normal, Two and 3D
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow
Typeface: Rostock Kaligraph
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in webkit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda
Typeface: Rotunda Pommerania
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded
Typeface: Rudelskopf deutsch
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms
Typeface: Schwaben Alt
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 3.5
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.
Typeface: Stage
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway
Typeface: Strassburg Fraktur
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ? (GPLfx,OFL)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding
Typeface: Tank
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos
Typeface: TengwarOptime
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Let's say... Optima for Tengwar
Typeface: TGL 0-16/0-17
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI, alternate Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types
Typeface: TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types
Typeface: Utusi Star
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk
Typeface: Varieté
Fonts: 16: Shades, outlines, rotated, mirrored...
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps
Typeface: Vis-A-Vis
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle
Typeface: Volk Redis
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941
Typeface: Vrångö
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix type like Ring Matrix
Typeface: Waschküche
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, resembles the Polish Antykwa designs
Typeface: Wiegel Kurrent
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting
Typeface: Wiegel Latein
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style handwriting
Typeface: Wolgast Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-2.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen
Typeface: Wolgast Two
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin/Cyrillic handwriting
Typeface: XAyax
Fonts: 2: Filled and outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule
Typeface: Yiggivoo Unicode
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI in Norm and 3D (shaded outline)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel
Typeface: Youbilee
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various jubilee laurels
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen)
Fonts: 4: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert, Vierhundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt)
Fonts: 3: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)
For some weird reason though that seems to happen almost exclusively with free fonts...
I usually find myself wanting to add a "few" characters that I'd really, really like to use but are not provided. (I make use of unusual punctuation marks, and fractions, and long S, and computing/astronomy symbols, and smiles/dingbats/emoji, etc.) I've had occasions when I had to change my plans because a font didn't have the repertoire I needed.
My only two released fonts are under Open Font License. I've contributed a few glyphs to EB Garamond, another open source typeface.
More handy than a list of Open Source fonts would be a list of professionally designed open source fonts.
Off of the top of my head, included on that list would be:
- Bitstream Vera
- Bitstream Charter
- The URW++ fonts
- Utopia
- Adobe Source Pro
You mean OS fonts made by folks that make their living off making fonts, right? You'll then want to add Paratype's PT Sans/Serif and the Ubuntu sans-serif (commissioned from Dalton-Maag).
You're correct, those do belong on the list as well, although the Ubuntu font is really their Aller font, right?
Dunno... They look rather different to me. For whatever reason I think of Aller as a print face, while Ubuntu is definitely a screen face.
Aller and Ubuntu are different type families, and most importantly, have different licenses. As I read it, the free version of Aller is limited to 25 users, where 25 visitors to a website counts as "25 users."
Regarding Aller as a webfont, Dalton Maag considers 1 desktop user to be the equivalent of 1,000 unique website visitors per day, with some wiggle room for traffic spikes.
http://www.daltonmaag.com/about/web_embedding_faq.html
But, more to the point of this thread, Aller is not an open source font; it's covered by Dalton Maag's standard EULA (supplemented with the Aller Free License), which does not allow modification. The Ubuntu font is covered by its own open source license which is based on the SIL OFL.
Guess that's right, though confusing to me. From http://www.fontsquirrel.com/license/Aller (Emphasis added)
1 You, the Licensee, are granted the right by Dalton Maag to Use the Aller Font Family, Standard Edition under the terms set out in the EULA. This free licence has a Licensed Unit size of 25 Users.
2 Use by more than 25 Users, or equivalent Website Visitors, is a breach of this Free Licence Agreement, and instead requires a commercial licence.
Fontsquirrel Note: 1000 website visitors is the equivalent of 1 user - http://www.daltonmaag.com/about/web_embedding_faq.html
Full update to the AIM list... two faces dropped, one new and all but the Verajja faces updated.
Typeface: Cankama Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.30 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: English blackletter, like Cloister Black Typeface: Garava Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/Hv Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.70 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, feels Goudy-ish Typeface: Guru Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.80 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, Garamond-style Typeface: Jivita Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.30 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Blockwriting, nicer than Comic Sans Typeface: Kabala Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/XB Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.50 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, Kabel-style Typeface: Lekhana Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.52 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Script, closest to Zapf Calligraphic Typeface: Mandala Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.42 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, kin to Bauhaus Typeface: Odana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.40 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Heavy pen-script (Bodacious/Calligrapher) Typeface: Pali Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.04 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Palatino Typeface: Talapanna Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.50 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Goudy Bertham Typeface: Veluvana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.41 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Wedge- or leaf-like display face Typeface: Verajja Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 3.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, Bitstream Vera Typeface: Verajja Serif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.20 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Slab-serif, Bitstream Vera Serif Typeface: VerajjaPDA Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.70 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, cut-down Verajja
Still no Apache. How come?
hhp
The Droid fonts were "professionally" done - commisioned by Google. Released under the Apache license.
I know. Same with Roboto. Reynir's list is what I was wondering about.
hhp
@Dan Gayle: “The URW++ fonts.”
I gave the site a look. Can you be more specific?
Correction for last night's braino...
Typeface: Jivita Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.30 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, dash of Eurostile, rest crazy weird
Waal, man, rustlin' Injuns is wrathly unenlightened.
Full update to the AIM list... two faces dropped
Hmm, what's up with that? One of the two fonts, Carita, seemed to be a quality digitization of Carolus, which is commercially unavailable and comes up periodically on the Type ID board (most recent thread here). The only reason given by the AIM fonts website: "Carita and Hattha were withdrawn as they will no longer be updated to match my other fonts." They also request others not to host or redistribute their fonts, which seems contradictory to the GNU license under which they're released.
@Chris: I assume Dan was referring to the Ghostscript fonts that were contributed to the project by URW.
@Té Rowan:
Since redistribution of Jivita is not allowed, it may be free, but it isn't open-source.
@gargoyle / @Chris : There are two sets of URW++ open source fonts. The Ghostscript fonts are available under either GPL or AFPL; the GhostPCL fonts are AFPL only, which is technically open source but not copyleft (as it restricts commercial use).
A while ago I put some PDF samples of the two URW++ sets together. Might as well link them here.
GPL Ghostscript fonts: http://www.altsan.org/fontinfo/urw_ps.pdf
AFPL GhostPCL fonts: http://www.altsan.org/fontinfo/urw_pcl.pdf
I am going with the assumption that by 'his fonts', Pesala means the unmodified files as downloaded from softerviews, so were I to rename them, they'd be my fonts (and my responsibility) thereafter. And with Carita officially paid off, it's open to forking by anyone willing to shower it with TLC and updates.
it's open to forking
There are at least two reasons not to be so cavalier:
1) The "designer" (using the term loosely - see #2) apparently doesn't want you to.
2) It's based on a design that's not necessarily an orphan: http://typophile.com/node/98434
BTW, it's not really "your font" unless you made it yourself. And even then you owe the people who came before you.
hhp
Remember, Carita's base licence is the GPL. And the GPL springs out of Hacker Tradition. Pesala asks elsewhere that if you modify and re-release the font(s), that you change the name as well.
Ya gotta read all of the FAQ.
And the GPL springs out of Hacker Tradition
This Hacker Tradition? : )
Reynir, I fail to see how you addressed either of my two points.
hhp
the GhostPCL fonts are AFPL only, which is technically open source but not copyleft (as it restricts commercial use).
I'm pretty sure you'll find that a restriction on commercial use means its not open source any way you look at it.
@Karl – The Jargon File and other docs at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ document the Hacker Tradition much better than I ever could.
@hrant – Point #2 is currently extraneous, as far as OSity is concerned. Point #1: Pesala can only request that others not cache his fonts. The GPL disallows otherwise. RTFL.
OSity? I thought we were talking about Carita.
Pesala can request anything he wants, and you can do anything you want. Choose wisely.
hhp
I don't think that the GPL disallows trademark rights, even if it disallows patent rights. Look at the case of CentOS and Scientific Linux vis-a-vis Red Hat Enterprise Linux, for example.
Thus, "you can do anything you want", if one excludes things one would do which would create criminal or civil liability, is not strictly true.
I didn't say there are no consequences! :-)
What I meant was that the way Pesala wants us to treat his work should at least be taken under advisement.
hhp
/me rolls eyes.
OSity = Open Source status.
That been said, it shall also be said that it's most important that you research the licence(s) from primary (at most secondary) sources. Those expecting me to be a competent source are so far beyond lost that even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn't find them. So there.
lol Té :)
I have compiled a font pack of open source licensed Unicode Hebrew script fonts. The font pack is available here.
Most of the fonts in the font pack are licensed with the SIL OFL, GPL, or GPL+FE, although there are some other less well known licenses in there as well. Enjoy!
Are any of them under the Apache license?
hhp
http://typographica.org/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2012/
So, out of 54 selections there are a whopping total of... one open-source fonts. And that's by Adobe! "It's an evil Font Mafia CONSPIRACY, I tell you!!"
hhp
Nice catch. I didn’t have time to read that in full today.
My choice was Fenland*: http://typographica.org/typeface-reviews/fenland/
* http://typophile.com/node/91425
hhp
Managed to get my inner densha-otaku to give up the notch for long enough that I could do a rough write-up of what's new/updated at CAT Design:
Typeface: Alpha54 Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 2.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Konrad F. Bauer, Walter Baum, Peter Wiegel Description: Italic brush writing Typeface: Beta54 Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 2.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Konrad F. Bauer, Walter Baum, Peter Wiegel Description: Oblique brush serif Typeface: Bienchen SAS Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 0.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: East German school handwriting Typeface: Boecklins Universe Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 1.000 Format: TTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Multilingual Boecklin. Typeface: Deutsche Normalschrift Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is alternates) Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 0.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: First Latin-style schoolhand in Germany Typeface: Gotisch Weiss UNZ1A Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is Antiqua caps and alternates) Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: ? Format: TTF Licensing: ? Designer: Emil Rudolf Weiss, Peter Wiegel Description: Blackletter, Dürer feel. Typeface: Imrans School Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 000.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Latin schoolhand for an NP project in India Typeface: Imrans School 2 Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is alternates) Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 000.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Latin schoolhand for an NP project in India Typeface: Ottilie U1AY Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 1.000 Format: TTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Naumann, Peter Wiegel Description: Kurrent handwriting, pen-style Typeface: Rastenburg U1SY Fonts: 6: Rg/Bd, Schraeg(Rg/Bd), Outline(Rg), Band(Rg) Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 0.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Kurrent handwriting, round marker Typeface: Rastenburg Band Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 1.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Outlined Rastenburg with minuscules on a black band Typeface: Simple Print Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: 000.000 Format: TTF Licensing: GPLfx,OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: School block writing Typeface: Tartlers End Fonts: 1: Rg? Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: ? Format: VFB Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Very thin serif, bit of a hippy
Still no Apache?
hhp
Naw. Weigel prefers dualling the GPL with font exception with the OFL. No idea if he knows of Apache or BSD, or if they even suit his model.
Seems that Google is changing UI fonts again, this time to the Noto Sans/Serif bought in from Monotype; and that they're relicensing the ChromeOS Core fonts as Apache, probably to have all of their fonts under the same licence.
Go Google! Respect.
They might have realized what I recently realized: Apache is more magnanimous, more inclusive, more socially just, more open than something like OFL.
In any case it no longer makes sense to cast Apache as a deprecated has-been.
Related:
http://typophile.com/node/99972
http://www.typophile.com/node/101655
hhp
It would be great if there was a site to publish this list to that was categorized and had a search function.
The list is WTFPL'd -- you can do Whatever The F* you want with it.
Edit: The ChromeOS set was Google's only non-Apache-licensed set, if I recall correctly.
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Aren't most Google fonts OFL (or equivalent)?
hhp
When I think of Google's Own fonts, I think of those fonts whose copyright Google holds; mainly the Android and ChromeOS fonts.
Aside: Noto looks to me like an updated Droid.
Same here, although Matteson says it's a "renaming of Open Sans".
hhp
Can someone call Mathew Butterick to the forum please before it's too late? Folks are not using the term 'open source' correctly. Civillisation as we know it could be in peril.
The only gray area in my own mind is whether to restrict the term "open-source" to fonts that could have been entirely produced with free* software. From what I can tell this is why some people don't feel Source Sans is open-source. The alternative is to call a font open-source as long as you don't need permission to distribute a modification. So maybe we need a different term for the former: opener-source. :-)
* Or does it have to be open-source too? :-)
hhp
Is this not accurate?
Noto Sans does look a good deal like Open Sans, but Noto Serif looks a right big lot like Droid Serif.
Personally, I do not care if others use payware tools or not; as long as I can use and hack on something to my heart's content and give/sell the result to others, I consider that something open source. To me, a TTF/OTF file is tokenised source, such as GWBASIC would normally save.
I doubt that anyone is looking to this thread for a definition of what open source is and is not in the larger world (apologies if you are). At best this serves as a useful discussion of the limiting factors of applying a philosophical model that was never conceived of to address the needs of type designers and font users. The OFL was conceived of to try and address the needs of designers, developers and users that wanted an open model which prevented restrictions, removed some of the ambiguity inherent in applying established licensing models (to something for which they were not intended) and promoted the underlying philosophy, without worrying about commercial considerations.
Perhaps this could lead to another custom license, following the Apache model but focusing on type/fonts? The Typophile Apache Licence (TAL), anyone? : )
I can dig that.
So exactly how does the existing Apache model not serve type well?
hhp
So exactly how does the existing Apache model not serve type well?
If you are using it and happy with it then I suppose that it does, but as it is not explicitly designed around type and the ways that type can be used then it is possible that it will fall short in some respect. I suppose that interpretation of section 3. 'Grant of Patent License' is confusing enough that I would not be comfortable taking advantage of it in a commercial capacity unless I was clear on the lineage of the typeface and the contributions made to it, basically, I would want to know where it had been.
My inner tetsu-ota found something to bounce all over his padded cell over:
Typeface: 5by7 Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: CAT Design Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/ Version: ? Format: TTF Licensing: OFL Designer: Peter Wiegel Description: Proportional matrix L/G/C font based on a 5×7 LED matrix
Should anyone care to venture here…
http://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/apache/
…there is now a RobotoSlab to be had, both raw and autohinted. The address, by the way, is that of Google's Mercurial repository, Apache division.
@Karl Stang
The OFL was conceived of to try and address the needs of designers, developers and users that wanted an open model which prevented restrictions, removed some of the ambiguity inherent in applying established licensing models (to something for which they were not intended) and promoted the underlying philosophy, without worrying about commercial considerations.
Perhaps this could lead to another custom license, following the Apache model but focusing on type/fonts? The Typophile Apache Licence (TAL), anyone? : )
I wonder if the OFL is a little too slightly a product of it's specific origins. It's need was to promote the spread of freely useable fonts. That need was tied to SIL's work to promote the spread of freely available [religious] texts. There was naturally less of a need to protect the designs themselves. I would like to see an OFL (or OFL like license) that is stronger in it's protection of free fonts from the potential dangers of other designers or foundries taking free fonts (or parts of them) and privatising them.
Since there now are virtually no barriers (well, besides talent and time :-) to creating good free fonts, I believe blocking people from making money from fonts actually reduces social justice.
For example somebody can make an Armenian extension to Roboto Slab and give it away, while I can make one and sell it, and people can freely choose the free one or the good one. :-) No hard feelings, and everybody is happy. If I weren't allowed to make money from it, Armenian culture just lost a good font.
Virtually nobody capable of contributing something of quality to society says: "I'd like to be compensated doing this, but I'm not allowed... but let me just do it anyway." They either would do it for no compensation to begin with (so the option of making money doing it is no impediment) or would spend the time doing something else!
hhp
Vernon: I would like to see an OFL (or OFL like license) that is stronger in it's protection of free fonts from the potential dangers of other designers or foundries taking free fonts (or parts of them) and privatising them.
The first of the Permissions and Conditions terms of the OFL license is this:
1) Neither the Font Software nor any of its individual components, in Original or Modified Versions, may be sold by itself.
An OFL font may be bundled with a commercial product, but cannot be sold as a product in itself. I'm not sure what else you mean by 'privatising' free fonts. What is your concern?
[When Ralph Hancock and I decided to make our Biblical Hebrew layout model open source, we deliberately avoided the OFL because it prevents utilisation in commercial fonts. We opted for the more liberal MIT license instead.]
I'm guessing Vernon would like a license that prohibits commercial bundling.
BTW what are the differences between MIT and Apache?
hhp
Hrant
somebody can make an Armenian extension to Roboto Slab and give it away, while I can make one and sell it
This is where a license can protects a font's freedom;
Under the terms of the OFL, you specifically cannot sell an OFL'd font (or a component of it) or sell a font derived from an OFL'd font.
I don't think the Apache license (as i understand it, so i could be wrong!) specifically prohibits selling an Apache'd font , but in practise it would probably be a non starter (if i am correct) because ;
If you were to make an Armenian extension of Roboto Slab, you would have to distribute it under the same Apache license as Roboto Slab (i.e make it 'free'), otherwise you would be breaching the font's license, naughty. So, the world would have Hrant's Roboto Slab... complete with the Apache license. So... whilst you may find a few people who will pay you to use your version of Roboto Slab, most will probably simply use it for free, under the terms of it's Apache license.
Also, of course, under the terms of Roboto Slab's license, your Armenian extenstion would possibly got folded back into the main Roboto Slab branch.
Are you saying that preventing other designers from 'privatising' derivatives of free fonts is reducing social justice? I would 100% agree with you, under certain circumstances, aka, if anyone could privatise a free font, and if anyone could free a proprietary font :) Cuts both way surely? The intellectual property contained in a free font is not of an inferior kind compared to the intellectual property contained in a proprietary font. Or do you think it is?
I'm not sure what else you mean by 'privatising' free fonts. What is your concern?
My concern is that 'free' licenses are generally seen as being about 'giving stuff away' and less about 'protecting the freedom' of the designer's output. I accept that (like with proprietary fonts) you can never reduce unlicensed use to 0%, but i think free software can too easilly have it's licensing terms disregarded, either by accident or design. Free software can be seen as a soft target for unlicensed use. The preamble of the OFL, for example, could make it a little clearer imo. No harm in that i would think; maybe more people would understand what they can and cannot do.
I'm guessing Vernon would like a license that prohibits commercial bundling.
No, i love the commercial bundling of free fonts :)
Liberation™
A font family which aims at metric compatibility with Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New.
They might have realized what I recently realized: Apache is more magnanimous, more inclusive, more socially just, more open than something like OFL.
I continue to recommend the OFL.
A couple of new'yins from Uwe Borchert:
Typeface: BStyle Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1b Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Joseph Binder, Uwe Borchert Description: Compressed, squarish sans; tall x; based on J. Binder's Binder-Style Typeface: Sturkopf Grotesk Fonts: 1: Md Foundry: TypoShop ubs Home: http://uwes.suche-plus.de/ Version: 1.1b Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF,SFD Licensing: OFL Designer: Uwe Borchert Description: Compressed sans; sort of alt. to Plakative Grotesk
Open Source Font Specimens – Contains samples of a large bunch of FLOSS faces/fonts. The full source kit download is 100.6 megabytes.
what is NOT clear is whether the fonts available from this site are legal -- that is, have an open source license. Odds are they are not, and the URL should be removed from typophile.
Dude yeah, can you believe those sites that pretend to have stolen goods but actually direct you to where you can buy the stuff legitimately?! How nasty can you get?
I'll alert Chris. But really guys, I'm not the only one who can do that.
hhp
Which 'this site'? Github? Typophile? If you're talking about the github link I posted, there are a few gratis fonts in the archive, but most of them by far are libre. I checked.
Which 'this site'? Github?
No. There was a post (to Typophile), giving a link for a site where you could get a lot of "free" Helvetica fonts. Apparently the entire post was removed.
Yes, Chris "fixed" the junkyard dog.
hhp
With that post removed, the last (with this) six posts are completely irrelevant. This is a very useful thread, shame to junk it up. Could Chris remove these, too?
Open sources! Get 'em while they're hot!
Neuton's spacing needs mondo work. Shocker.
hhp
Shocker.
Zo... they vant a frrree Helvetica? Then I must do vat I nefer vanted to do... (insert KRACKADOOOOM!.wav) Unlissh my tzekrit veppon! The HelveticaTP! (insert Vincent_Price_laughs.wav)
Well, I have been hammering on an old Nimbus Sans (eight of the original 35 AFPL/GPL-licensed Ghostscript fonts). Might even get around to post it somewhere somewhen. Oh, and the TP stands for the kind you tear by the sheet off a roll.
Guess it's time to post what updates I have now that I have found this thread again...
First the AIM fonts:
Version: 1.2 - - 8< - - Typeface: Cankama Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.50 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: English blackletter, like Cloister Black Typeface: Garava Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/Hv Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.90 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, feels Goudy-ish Typeface: Guru Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.90 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, Garamond-style Typeface: Jivita Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.30 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, dash of Eurostile, rest crazy weird Typeface: Kabala Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI/XB Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.60 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, Kabel-style Typeface: Lekhana Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.52 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Script, closest to Zapf Calligraphic Typeface: Mandala Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.42 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Geometric sans-serif, kin to Bauhaus Typeface: Odana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.50 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Heavy pen-script (Bodacious/Calligrapher) Typeface: Pali Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.12 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Palatino Typeface: Talapanna Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.60 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Serif, B.P.'s version of Goudy Bertham Typeface: Veluvana Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.50 Format: TTF Licensing: GPL Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Wedge- or leaf-like display face Typeface: Verajja Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 3.10 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, Bitstream Vera Typeface: Verajja Serif Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 1.20 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Slab-serif, Bitstream Vera Serif Typeface: VerajjaPDA Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: Association for Insight Meditation Home: http://www.softerviews.org/ Version: 2.70 Format: TTF Licensing: Vera Designer: Bhikkhu Pesala Description: Sans-serif, cut-down Verajja
And the full CAT design font list, 32.5K:
Version: 1.2
Codings:
Wiegel: P. Wiegel's old code for German special glyphs
UNZ1: Subset of MUFI, details PUA codes for German special glyphs
- - 8< - -
Typeface: 18th Century Kurrent
Fonts: 3: Text, Start (alternate init forms), Initials
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting, Wiegel-coded
Typeface: 5by7
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Proportional LED matrix font based on a 5×7 matrix
Typeface: Alfabilder
Fonts: 1: Pi
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Alphabetic picture font for the German alphabet
Typeface: Alpha54
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Konrad F. Bauer, Walter Baum, Peter Wiegel
Description: Italic brush writing
Typeface: Amptmann Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SWG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Partly-connected, upright writing, used on Prussian Railways pattern drawings
Typeface: ApolloASM
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Jugendstil, vaguely resembling an ornate Bocklin
Typeface: Avocado
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, broad-nib pen-style
Typeface: Bad Gong
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Chalk-on-blackboard script, based on Gong by Carl Wilkow
Typeface: Berlin Email
Fonts: 8: Rg/SB/Bd/Hv, alt. Rg, Shadow (Rg), Outline (Rg), Wide (Sb)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit; Rg only)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow sans-serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Berlin Email Serif
Fonts: 3: Rg/SB, Shadow (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Narrow serif, based on emailled signage; Wiegel-coded
Typeface: Bernardo Moda
Fonts: 3: Rg/SB/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: monoline, based on Lucien Bernhard's type
Typeface: Bernardo Moda Contrast
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Bernardo Moda with clear H/V contrast.
Typeface: Beroga
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: All-minuscule, rounded marker-style sans-serif with ca. 8° slope
Typeface: Berthold Mainzer Fraktur
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Beta54
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Konrad F. Bauer, Walter Baum, Peter Wiegel
Description: Oblique brush serif
Typeface: Bienchen SAS
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German school handwriting
Typeface: Blankenburg
Fonts: 2: Rg/It (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Semicondensed Tannenberg in Wiegel (Regular only) and UNZ1(A) coding
Typeface: Boecklins Universe
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Multilingual Boecklin.
Typeface: Border Control
Fonts: 2: Upper and lower half
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Split, bold, all-majuscule sans-serif
Typeface: Casa Sans
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd (Bold only in TTF)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Squarish, broad-nib pen-style block writing
Typeface: CatShop
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, soft of an acid-washed didone
Typeface: cbe Normal
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, somewhat cuneiform
Typeface: Centre Claws
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgO, Beam(Rg) which is shaded
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Art Deco display, a bit like Broadway
Typeface: Cut Me Out
Fonts: 3: Different variants
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: All-majuscule sans-serif, surrounded by lines or blocks
Typeface: Cöntgen Kanzlei (Cöntgen Kanzley)
Fonts: 2: Rg, both upright and slanting
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur-based calligraphy by Heinrich Hugo Cöntgen, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Deutsche Normalschrift
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is alternates)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Earliest Latin-style schoolhand in Germany
Typeface: DiffiKult
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, no horizontal lines
Typeface: DIN 1451 fette Breitschrift 1936
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: The now-withdrawn Wide version of DIN 1451 traffic font
Typeface: Discipuli Britannica
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: UK school handwriting
Typeface: Doergon
Fonts: 3: Regular, Shift (left-shadowed), Backshift (right-shadowed)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, narrow-ish, all majuscule
Typeface: Elabris (Elbaris)
Fonts: 2: Regular and Outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, caps/smallcaps, shades of DIN1451 Engschrift
Typeface: Elb-Tunnel
Fonts: 2: Regular and Schatten (shaded)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on signage in the old Elbe tunnel in Hamburg
Typeface: Elbic Caslon (Elfic Caslon,Elfic Caslin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: A Caslon for the Queen Galadriel
Typeface: Erika Type (Erica Type)
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, typewriter, comes from Wiegel's old Erika typewriter
Typeface: Eureka
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Herrmann Poppelbaum (1905), Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, caps/smallcaps, Art Deco/Jugendstil
Typeface: Fette Bauersche Antiqua
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, heavy, think Poster Bodoni
Typeface: Fibel Nord
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Süd (Fibel Sued)
Fonts: 5: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Kontur (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on German school primer
Typeface: Fibel Vienna
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Austrian school primer
Typeface: Fundamental Brigade
Fonts: 5: Lt/Rg/Bd, Cond (Rg), 3D (Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Arno Drescher (1935), Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, some UNZ1 ligatures
Typeface: Göschen Fraktur (Goeschen Fraktur)
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Carl Albert Fahrenwaldt (1901), Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur with a biblical feel, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Gondrini (Gondrin)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, geometric, display, shaded outlines, cookie-cutter
Typeface: Gotisch Weiss UNZ1A
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is Antiqua caps and alternates)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Emil Rudolf Weiss, Peter Wiegel
Description: Blackletter, Dürer feel.
Typeface: Greifswalder Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwriting, based on Rudolf Koch's Offenbacher Kurrent, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Greifswalder Tengwar
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Tengwar handwriting in Offenbach style
Typeface: Gruenewald VA
Fonts: 3: 1. Klasse, 3. Klasse, Normal, sll Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.007
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in web kit - Normal only)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Dr. Heinrich Grünewald (1970s), Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style schoolhand, Wiegel coding
Typeface: H1N1
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made of parallel wavetrains
Typeface: Hardman
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy, wide, squarish logotype with connecting letters
Typeface: Helvetia Verbundene
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF (TTF,EOT,WOFF in web kit)
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Swiss handwriting
Typeface: Immermann
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, resembles a seriffed Radio/Rundfunk, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Imrans School
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin schoolhand for an NP project in India
Typeface: Imrans School 2
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is alternates)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin schoolhand for an NP project in India
Typeface: Incopins Clusters
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Squarish sans-serif drawn with three parallel lines
Typeface: Kaufhalle
Fonts: 2: HO and Blech, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Display, recreation of HO Kaufhalle logotype
Typeface: Koch Fette Deutsche Schrift
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Rudolf Koch (1910), Peter Wiegel
Description: Very plain fraktur, Wiegel (Rg only) and UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur
Fonts: 3: Rg/Bd/Hv
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Leipzig Fraktur UNZ1A
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI (Italic are letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.005
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur for bread text
Typeface: Luxembourg 1910
Fonts: 3: Normal, Contur (hollow), Ombre (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 2.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Jugendstil display face from old spice drawers
Typeface: Maass Slicer (Maassslicer)
Fonts: 2: Normal and 3D (shadow)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, oblique display face, orig. logotype
Typeface: Makushka
Fonts: 4: Normal, Kontura (hollow), Quadriga, Secunda
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sort-of an Elabris with minuscules, looks overlayable
Typeface: Manuskript Gotisch
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Textur, hint of Old English, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Men Nefer
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bk
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, geometric, UNZ1 coding
Typeface: Midroba
Fonts: 2: Normal and shaded, both Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx/OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Spur-serif, display, all-majuscule, heavy, octal
Typeface: MMX2010
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, caps/smallcaps, TV game machine feel
Typeface: Moderne Schwabacher
Fonts: 3: Fett, 3D (shaded), Gekippt (tipped over)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Moderne Fette Schwabacher UNZ1A
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavily reworked, Wiegel coding
Typeface: Möbius (moebius)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, display, bicolour (u/c = non-spacing fills, l/c = spacing outlines)
Typeface: Morado
Fonts: 4: Sharp,Nib,Felt,Marker; all Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Connected handwriting with nib or marker pen
Typeface: Murrx
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Heavy display face made from ellipsoids on NE-SW axis
Typeface: Mutter Krause
Fonts: 3: Rg,SB,Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, slanting, Jugendstil-feel.
Typeface: Nathan
Fonts: 8: Cond,Norm,SExpd,Expd; each with an alternate set
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Slab-serif, hand-drawn.
Typeface: Neue Rudelskopf
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPL,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms
Typeface: Neue Rudelskopf verbundene
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgO/Bd/BdO
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.008
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPL,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms
Typeface: Nomatais (Nomitais)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Elabris with multiple levels of outlines
Typeface: Numukki
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Conlang, knotted-line, good for separators and scenebreaks
Typeface: Ottilie U1AY
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Uwe Naumann, Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent handwriting, pen-style
Typeface: Postamt
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Caps/smallcaps, based on lettering on pre-WW1 post offices.
Typeface: Powerweld
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF
Licensing: CCPL (details ?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, Bauhaus style, all-minuscule
Typeface: Präsent 60
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various East German logos
Typeface: Preussische IV 44 (PreussischeIV44Ausgabe3)
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type IV 44 version 3
Typeface: Preussische VI 9
Fonts: 5: Filled, outline, outline with shade, outline with outlined shade, shade
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Repro of Prussian Railways pattern type VI 9 version 2
Typeface: Proletarsk
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, monoline, doubled-up questionmark
Typeface: Quast
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Brush type, all-majuscule, very rough outline
Typeface: Quimbie
Fonts: 4: Regular, UH, 3D, Shaddow (T1 has only Regular and UH)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule, resembles Amelia
Typeface: Quirkus
Fonts: 6: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI, Out (thick outline), Upside Down (rotated in place)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif
Typeface: Rastenburg
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-handwriting, UNZ1-coded
Typeface: Rastenburg U1SY
Fonts: 6: Rg/Bd, Schraeg(Rg/Bd), Outline(Rg), Band(Rg)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent handwriting, round marker
Typeface: Rastenburg Band
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Outlined Rastenburg with minuscules on a black band
Typeface: Ring Matrix
Fonts: 3: Normal, Two and 3D
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix with ring LEDs, solid LEDs and ring LEDs with shadow
Typeface: Rostock Kaligraph
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF (TTF,EOT,SVG,WOFF in webkit)
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Very round calligraphy, resembles rotunda
Typeface: Rotunda Pommerania
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Rotunda style, Wiegel-code (Regular only) or UNZ1-coded
Typeface: Rudelskopf deutsch
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, based on Kurrent-style letterforms
Typeface: Simple Print
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: School block writing
Typeface: Schwaben Alt
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI (Italic is letterspaced)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 3.5
Format: TTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Schwabacher in Wiegel- (Rg only) or UNZ1-coding.
Typeface: SparTakus
Fonts: 2: more or less round
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Based on SPAR store chain lettering
Typeface: Stage
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, narrow, Art Deco, fleeting taste of Broadway
Typeface: Standard Graf
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Fraktur from a lettering template
Typeface: Strassburg Fraktur
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ? (GPLfx,OFL)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Handwritten fraktur, ornate majuscules, Wiegel-coding
Typeface: Tank
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with (gas/petrol) tank station logos
Typeface: Tartlers End
Fonts: 1: Rg?
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: VFB
Licensing: OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Very thin serif, bit of a hippy
Typeface: TengwarOptime
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Let's say... Optima for Tengwar
Typeface: TGL 0-16/0-17
Fonts: 3: Rg/RgI, alternate Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 16 and DIN 17 blueprint types
Typeface: TGL 0-1451 Engschrift
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German version of DIN 1451 Engschrift
Typeface: TGL 31034-1, TGL 31034-2
Fonts: 2: Rg/RgI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.003
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: East German versions of DIN 6776 / DIN EN ISO 3098 blueprint types
Typeface: Tyskland
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Pi; combining map of Germany
Typeface: Utusi Star
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.00
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, slight resemblance with Rundfunk
Typeface: Varieté
Fonts: 16: Shades, outlines, rotated, mirrored...
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, all-majuscule or caps/smallcaps
Typeface: Vis-A-Vis
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, all-majuscule, split in middle
Typeface: Volk Redis
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent handwriting, anno 1930-1941
Typeface: Vrångö
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: LED matrix type like Ring Matrix
Typeface: Waschküche
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, resembles the Polish Antykwa designs
Typeface: Wiegel Kurrent
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Kurrent-style handwriting
Typeface: Wiegel Latein
Fonts: 2: Rg/Md
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin-style handwriting
Typeface: Wolgast Script
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 001.001
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-2.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sloppy-looking handwriting with a broad-nib pen
Typeface: Wolgast Two
Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: ?
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: DSL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Latin/Cyrillic handwriting
Typeface: XAyax
Fonts: 2: Filled and outline
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Serif, Jugendstil, narrow, all-majuscule
Typeface: Yiggivoo Unicode
Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI in Norm and 3D (shaded outline)
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.004
Format: Unix/Windows T1,TTF,OTF
Licensing: CCPL (CC-BY-3.0/Germany)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: Sans-serif, wide, tall x, board game packaging feel
Typeface: Youbilee
Fonts: 1: Rg
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 0.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: GPLfx,OFL
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI font with various jubilee laurels
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen (Zeichen)
Fonts: 4: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert, Vierhundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 000.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: CCPL (?)
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with traffic signs (in layers)
Typeface: Verkehrszeichen alt (Zeichen Alt)
Fonts: 3: Hundert, Zweihundert, Dreihundert
Foundry: CAT Design
Home: http://peter-wiegel.de/
Version: 1.000
Format: TTF
Licensing: ?
Designer: Peter Wiegel
Description: PI fonts with old traffic signs (in layers)
Finally, George Douros' specialist fonts in toto:
Version: 1.1 - - 8< - - Typeface: Aegean Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.12 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Large collection of Aegean/Mediterranean scripts Typeface: Aegyptus Fonts: 2: Rg, Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: A large set of hieroglyphs Typeface: Akkadian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.12 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Various ancient scripts, lots of cuneiform Typeface: Alexander Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Alexander Wilson's Greek and Garamond-based Latin and Cyrillic Typeface: Alfios Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Didot's and Porson's minuscules, everything else new Typeface: Anaktoria Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Grecs du Roi Greek, Shakespeare First Folio Latin, all else new Typeface: Analecta Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Ecclesiastical scripts Typeface: Anatolian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Anatolian hieroglyphs Typeface: Aroania Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Based on Scholderer/Monotype's New Hellenic Typeface: Asea Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.11 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Various ancient scripts Typeface: Atavyros Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Granjon's Parangonne Greque with Goudy Latin/Cyrillic Typeface: Avdira Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Damilas's and Porson's Greek minuscules, all else new Typeface: Maya Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.11 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: J.E.S. Thompson's Mayan glyph catalogue fonted Typeface: Musica Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.11 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Basic Latin/Greek/Coptic, various music symbols Typeface: Symbola Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.12 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Symbols in Unicode et al... Typeface: Unidings Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.12 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Glyphs and icons for Unicode Blocks...
Edit: Fixed the showstopper bug @riccard0 pointed out.
Reynir, you mistyped a |f| for a |g|: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
Oh, bloody hack... Did so not intend to move his site to France...
Okaaayy... George Douros has just updated many of his fonts.
Version: 1.2 - - 8< - - Typeface: Aegean Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.42 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Large collection of Aegean/Mediterranean scripts Typeface: Aegyptus Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.03 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: A large set of hieroglyphs Typeface: Akkadian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.15 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Sumero-Akkadian and Early Dynastic cuneiform Typeface: Alexander Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Alexander Wilson's Greek and Garamond-based Latin and Cyrillic Typeface: Alfios Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Didot's and Porson's minuscules, everything else new Typeface: Anaktoria Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Grecs du Roi Greek, Shakespeare First Folio Latin, all else new Typeface: Analecta Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.02 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Ecclesiastical scripts Typeface: Anatolian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.02 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Anatolian hieroglyphs Typeface: Aroania Fonts: 2: Rg/Bd Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Based on Scholderer/Monotype's New Hellenic Typeface: Asea Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.13 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Various ancient scripts Typeface: Assyrian Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.15 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Assyrian cuneiform Typeface: Atavyros Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Granjon's Parangonne Greque with Goudy Latin/Cyrillic Typeface: Avdira Fonts: 4: Rg/RgI/Bd/BdI Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 1.01 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Damilas's and Porson's Greek minuscules, all else new Typeface: Cretan Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.42 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Cretan hieroglyphs Typeface: CyproMinoan Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.42 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Cypro-Minoan script(s) Typeface: Gardiner Fonts: 2: Rg, Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.03 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Gardiner hieroglyphs Typeface: Maya Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 4.14 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: J.E.S. Thompson's Mayan glyph catalogue fonted Typeface: Musica Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 3.12 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Basic Latin/Greek/Coptic, various music symbols Typeface: Nilus Fonts: 2: Rg, Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 5.03 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Coptic, Meroitic and Hieratic characters, incl. translits Typeface: Symbola Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.17 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Symbols in Unicode et al... Typeface: Unidings Fonts: 1: Rg Foundry: George Douros Home: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ Version: 7.17 Format: TTF Licensing: Very permissive Designer: George Douros Description: Glyphs and icons for Unicode Blocks...
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