packager for liberation sans derivative needed (was: Re: Call for OpenType fonts!)

[Vasile Gaburici]

I'll gladly do some testing. As for the packaging, given that it's a
derivative of Liberation, perhaps someone from Redhat will step up and
include them in the official package...

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo at centroin.com.br> wrote:
>
> i have worked on a derivative version of liberation sans for a client (a
> public university in brazil). i have made several changes to the design of
> the existing fonts (it is closer to univers and akzidenz grotesk), and
> created new ultralight and extrabold weights as well as small caps,
> proportional numbers and case-sensitive punctuation for the text fonts (but
> no greek or cyrillic).
>
> the university will be releasing their new visual identity soon, along with
> the fonts. i plan to release an extended version* of the family (under a
> different name) in september/october through my foundry.
>
> * including condensed and extended fonts for use in newspapers and magazines
>
> [the fonts were designed in the 'ivory tower' way, with mostly proprietary
> software (macosx, fontlab, superpolator).]
>
> i would be happy if these fonts could end up in linux distros.
>
> if anyone is interested in testing the fonts on linux and taking care of the
> packaging, please drop me a line.
>
>
> regards,
> - gustavo.
>
>
> ps: the fonts are in opentype cff format.
>
>
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