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

[Gustavo Ferreira]

(sent off-list)

On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:03 PM, Vasile Gaburici wrote:

> 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.
>>