[Foundation-l] Fonts

Wed Jul 20 23:15:03 UTC 2005

On 7/20/05, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On previous wikimeets I attended we did discuss the need for a
> collection of fonts that would include as many fonts as we can get for
> our public. It would help a lot if we could have one resource that is
> free for use and that does include all the needed fonts. If it requires
> a reasonable amount of money to buy a missing font to make it Free, I
> think it is worthy of consideration. I am also sure that when we
> acknowledge the people who make fonts available for this purpose we will
> be able to get many resources for free.

Good fonts require tons of time from professional artists. I don't
think the foundation could buy them for all languages we support
unless we somehow come across a few million dollars. We'd probably
have better luck convincing Microsoft to open source theirs.

Dori