Friday, 24 September 2010

FLOS Typefaces resource

Display or place of showcase of open source typefaces

http://openfontlibrary.org/files

http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/11/08/40-excellent-freefonts-for-professional-design/

http://www.designwritingresearch.org/free_fonts.html

http://crudfactory.com/fontserver/show

Place of development of open source typefaces

http://sourceforge.net/projects/crimsontext/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/beteckna/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amiri/support

Sponsors of open source typefaces

The typeface development can be sponsored by online multiple donors method like below:

http://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=344961

The typeface projects can be developed by organizations too like below:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Grants/Open_Font_Library

http://openfontlibrary.org/patrons

http://code.google.com/p/sortsmill/

Thursday, 2 September 2010

FLOSS Designers = Designers for FLOSS

A colloborative and contributive strategy

Interestingly some professor is on it,
http://www.sububi.org/2010/08/18/free-interaction-design-for-your-open-source-project/

Where FLOSS designers can contribute are :
http://sourceforge.net/people/

FEDORA

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork

SCRIBUS

Contributing back to Scribus
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_can_I_contribute_to_Scribus%3F

Design tips can be added at this page
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Avoiding_Design_Problems
More features can be added in similar section
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Discussion:_Practical_Needs_in_Layout_Software

( Post expected to grow with more information)

First design with scribus

Project scenarios presentation

Various scenarios of the project are explained in the PDF file.

Talk with guide

Usability
Comparision of tool
Tool analogies
Publication design is space design
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