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byiYk6 ( 1425255 ) writes:
Closed source software and assets are a bitch. If only someone had warned them.
byAmiMoJo ( 196126 ) writes:
There aren't many good open source fonts for Japanese. There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.
By "good" I mean good coverage of all characters, proper keming, good hinting so that they render well and consistently on screen and in print, etc. It's a lot of work, and Japanese has a lot of characters.
bytlhIngan ( 30335 ) writes:
There weren't even that many good ones for Latin languages, until Google started releasing some under free licences.
Microsoft actually released a set of "Core Fonts for the Web" back in 1996, which while proprietary was available for free distribution with certain caveats.
Linux systems all had a way to get them - they often consist of a script to download the original font packages and then extracted them for use on Linux desktops. This greatly improved the typography so it was popular on Linux systems to i
bypjt33 ( 739471 ) writes:
Google however was the first to make a bunch of open-source fonts.
What about SIL? They released a few fonts for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic under the SIL Open Font License before Google Fonts existed - and, in fact, Google uses their licence for some fonts.
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