Open Font Library

The Open Font Library (OFLB) is a project devoted to hosting, and encouraging the creation of fonts released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to the Open Clip Art Library and has hosted over one hundred fonts. Originally created as an initiative 2006, the project launched a major public launch on May 12, 2011 at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal by Fabricatorz developer Christopher Adams^[1].

The Open Font Library recommends designers use the SIL Open Font License (OFL) (although since both share the same initials, the acronym for the Open Font Library is suggested as "OFLB.")

The site was started with a deployment of ccHost version 4, and in 2008 Dave Crossland made a funding campaign that raised over US$10,000 from Mozilla, Prince XML, River Valley and TUG to transition to ccHost 5 with a new brand to promote web font linking. However, the work done with the funds was not published until 2010 at the 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting. Crossland made an application for the Open Font Library to the 2010 Creative Commons Catalyst Grants programme.

The project's members meet annually at the Libre Graphics Meeting. In 2011, work supported by Dave Crossland, Christopher Adams, the Fabricatorz and other community members got a major release in Montreal. The Fabricatorz built the project on the Aiki Framework and now hosts all development planning on Launchpad.

See also

• Open Content
• Open Clip Art Library
• Create Project
• Libre Graphics Meeting
• Aiki Framework

References

1. ^ http://fabricatorz.com/2011/05/launching-the-open-font-library-and-freeing-fonts/

External links

• Open Font Library Home page
• Launchpad Management Site
• Fabricatorz