Showing posts with label open source fonts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open source fonts. Show all posts

15 December 2007

Free (As in Freedom) Fonts

Most people - myself included - take fonts for granted. But we shouldn't, because, just like software, fonts can be free and non-free. If you want to find out everything there is to know about the subject of free fonts, try this excellent short article.

11 July 2006

DejaVu All Over Again: Open Source Fonts

Last month I commended Hakon Wium Lie's call for open source typefaces to replace the de facto standard based on Microsoft's fonts. And here's an interesting article about a project called DejaVu that might just do that. The piece has some interesting background information on both DejaVu and its predecessor, Vera.