A Serifed Roman
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:16 pm
Just after 5 pm in England on a Sunday afternoon in Autumn and, noticing that there are no new posts for some time and 4 guests having a look (including me, though I have now logged on) I am writing to ask if there is interest in producing a font which could be "Public Domain Serifed Roman" or maybe some "Creative Commons licensed Serifed Roman" or whatever such that any interested person is free to add, or indeed alter, a glyph already in the font with the idea that lots of people get interested in producing the font and maybe having fun and observing where it all leads.
For example, those people who so choose could write stories, poems and songs and publish them using the font. The font could be used in pdfs and as text in graphics and so on.
Maybe the font could become famous that if someone needs a font with a rare character, then the font would be easily adapted by either that person or someone else to fulfil the need. The public domain or creative commons, whichever participants prefer, font would allow adaptions to be made very fast without the licensing issues with adapting a commercial font.
Could such a font get started and become a valuable aspect of computing simply because of the interest in getting it going and the ability for it to get adapted and also be produced without any hierarchical management, just from interested people adding a few glyphs here and there and figuring out in a thread such as this how to get round problems?
If anyone reading this agrees, please post in this thread and, if you can, please suggest some aspect of the font or upload something to the web or both.
This could be a fun project.
William Overington
For example, those people who so choose could write stories, poems and songs and publish them using the font. The font could be used in pdfs and as text in graphics and so on.
Maybe the font could become famous that if someone needs a font with a rare character, then the font would be easily adapted by either that person or someone else to fulfil the need. The public domain or creative commons, whichever participants prefer, font would allow adaptions to be made very fast without the licensing issues with adapting a commercial font.
Could such a font get started and become a valuable aspect of computing simply because of the interest in getting it going and the ability for it to get adapted and also be produced without any hierarchical management, just from interested people adding a few glyphs here and there and figuring out in a thread such as this how to get round problems?
If anyone reading this agrees, please post in this thread and, if you can, please suggest some aspect of the font or upload something to the web or both.
This could be a fun project.
William Overington