About
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Manifesto or Definition
To be written. Free Font Manifestos links to others, but we need our own. (This task is on the Roadmap)
The Free Font page explains what it means for a font to be Free.
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Affiliations
The Open Font Library is affiliated with the following sites/organisations:
- Open Clip Art Library - OFLB was originally conceieved of by Jon Philips and Alexandre Prokoudine as a version of the OCAL that would focus on fonts instead of clipart
- Creative Commons
- FontForge
- Inkscape
- CREATE
- Open Clipart Library
- KOffice Project
- Scribus
- Open Font License
Hosting for the website and mailing lists is generously provided by FreeDesktop.Org
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Research
- According to Raph Levien, these are the sites to master:
- myfonts.com - he says that we should basically emulate this site
- typophile.com
- fontleech.com
- Raph Levien's Font Book scans
- Tug.org's Tex Fonts
- SVG Fonts
- Adobe's introduction to OpenType fonts
- Microsoft's OpenType specification
- Typophile Forums
- http://www.dafont.com/en/
- Scribus Wiki has good refs for fonts
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Criticism
Criticism of the project is also valuable.

