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Planet Open Fonts [Nicolas Spalinger]

Blog and open source font news, moderated by Nicolas Spalinger. The community's manifesto: We are members of the wider FLOSS community and we have a special interest in open fonts: appropriate licensing, collaborative typeface design, featureful open font design toolkit, packaging and availability of quality open fonts in the various distributions and OSes to cover the needs of language communities, publishers and artists, etc. We support the Open Font License as the recommended license for libre/open fonts. We are users, contributors and developers of various components of the open font design toolkit. Some components of the Open Font Design toolKit (OFDK) are:

• Smith (framework for building, testing and releasing fonts - BSD)
• pySILfont (collection of font production utilities - MIT)
• Font::TTF (library for TTF font pre/postprocessing - Artistic2)
• Font::TTF::Scripts (collection of scripts for Font::TTF - Artistic2)
• Palaso python (collection of modules and scripts for linguistic and font processing - LGPL2+)
• Fonttools (ttx) (library for font production, also a collection of scripts - BSD)
• pyFontaine (utility to measure language coverage - GPL3)
• Fontbakery (utilities to do font testing - Apache2)
• Freetype ttfautohint (library for rasterizing and hinting, FTL, GPL2)
• Graphite (library for smart font rendering - LGPL2.1+-MPL2-GPL2+)
• GRaide (GRAphite Integrated Development Environment) (Graphite visual editor and debugger - LGPL2.1+)
• ots (opentype sanitizer) (utility to validate fonts - BSD)
• HarfBuzz (hb-view, hb-shape) (library for rendering, includes utilities - MIT)
• fontconfig (library for access and classification of font files - BSD-like)
• fontview (utility for rendering test with recent open rendering stack - GPL2)
• wofftools (utility to handle WOFF format - BSD)
• fontmake (wrapper for libraries to compile font sources - Apache2)
• font testing page (utility for testing fonts - MIT, CC-BY-SA 3.0 for content)
• FontForge (font editor - GPL3, BSD)
• Glyphs scripts (scripts for the Glyphs editor - MIT)
• TruFont (font editor - LGPL3, GPL3)
• Fontproof (utility for automated smart font proofing - MIT)
• SILE (smart typesetting engine - MIT)
• XeTeX (smart typesetting engine MIT)

A few small shell, python or perl scripts designed between 2014 and 2018 to help with font-related tasks published at the Planet Open Fonts site:

• fontfind.sh
• ttfversion.sh
• fc-version.sh
• fontlicense.py
• font2fea.py
• fontforge-open-font-folders.py
• fontforge-open-scripts-folder.py
• fontforge-generate-install.py
• fontversion.py
• txtfontcoverage.pl
• ttfcoverage.pl
• odffonts.py
• nautilus-install-fonts.sh
• fontTM.py
• fontnames.py
• fontlog.py
• fontembedding.py
• fontdiff.sh

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