State of the Table of Contents, April 6th 

After a work session on the ICE leaving Leipzig, here’s a current list of possible material (to follow up):

Confirmed contributions

  • Julien Deswaef: Computational fonts for the web – on obscure webfont methods without webfonts
  • Frank Adebiaye has sent several proposals:
    • a) Atlas of type foundries (could be a poster!)
    • b) Essay – yes! with examples of fonts (not only VTF ones)
  • Loraine Furter : “gorgeous libre fonts that you (probably) never heard about”.

Unconfirmed contributions

Listed in random order:

  • Pippin:
    • a) on Kernagic (semi-automatic tool for spacing fonts, began at LGM 2013)
    • b) The 0xA000 font family and the modular font editor – for showcase, with images
  • Alexei Vanyashin – subject matter to be defined (libre type in the cyrillic world? adding cyrillic to a latin font?)
  • Nathan Willis – possible topic: undone / unfinished type projects
  • Eric Schrijver – something regarding the experimental Etherpad project and the browser-to-print CSS hacks by OSP.
  • Sol Matas – the argentinian libre type scene – history, background, …
  • Juraj Sukop (maker of flat/even): typism, a type design tool
  • Simon Egli – on Metapolator (talked only to Nicolas, must contact #ASAP). this could be an article that also places Metapolator in the context of metafont and previous interpolation tools (Erik van Blokland’s Superpolator, Pablo Impallari’s Simplepolator…)
  • Dave Crossland – not defined or confirmed yet (contact #ASAP). possible contributions:
    • visual: a graphic map of the libre software infrastructure (similar to the scribbling on napkin and drawing board)?
    • on the upcoming indic fonts project?
    • also: the new OFL, font bakery

Visual showcase

Possible contributions

  • GlitchText artwork by Benjamin Berg
  • Pippin’s 0xA000 font + editor, see above
  • Screenless Office, presented by Brendan Howell at LGM 2014
  • map of libre foundries, proposed by F. Adebiaye, see above

An overview of Libre Type Design Software

Could be a special feature, on 2 or 4 pages, presented as a sort of graphic schematic (close to Dave’s drawing).

  • ttfautohint
  • Kernagic
  • Font Bakery (font compiler + checker)
  • fontforge
  • …

Other possibilities

  • Chris Lilley: Colored Glyphs in OTF (pushing libre software to implement this!)
  • The League of Moveable Type
  • Victor Gaultney (SIL): on collaborative projects (topic of his ATypI 2013 presentation)
  • Eben Sorkin
  • Vernon Adams
  • Ale Rimoldi: on Impagina, editorial workflows.

For “Small and Useful”

For “Notebook”

  • what happened at LGM
  • ask Gijs ?
  • ask Myriam Cea ?