To make your progress visible to the community, it is helpful to post a short 3 line email with 3 things: You’ll see a lot of other designers have done the same, and the responses have improved their results as there are linguists, developers and many other type designers there. When you begin a project, start a new thread and describe the project. To discuss topics outside narrow per-project details, the Google Fonts type design community uses the Google Group Google Fonts Discuss Please see the Github section further below for tips on learning Github. In 2019, a feature to link your Github projects to funding services and show them via a prominent button was added ( learn more). It provides the best and most well-designed experience for public project development. Github is a public project collaboration platform that is somewhat similar to Dropbox, but more fine-grained. This enables the public to see work in progress and point out issues during development instead of after the typical 1.0 release. Ideally all development of libre fonts is done publicly, from day one. Since then I keep using Git even on projects that I work on alone, because commit messages help me remember things I did and why I did them on each project. I used to hate Git because I don’t understand why I had to use it… until I started working with agile methods. SIL’s Font Development Best Practices with Technical Guidance Regarding Font Development And ProductionĪt ATypI 2014 David Lemon, the senior manager of the Adobe Type group, discussed how the Adobe Type team has benefited from libre fonts culture, and that Git and Github was one of the most positive things ( reference.)Īdobe have recently used the “publish early and often, gathering feedback” approach typical of libre project with the Vortice typeface project ( reference.)Ī Thai type designer and web developer said this about his experience with Git:.Dave Crossland’s MATD Dissertation, The Free Font Movement.
This page offers a checklist for running a libre font project.
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