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

[Vasile Gaburici]

I took a quick look at the fonts, and I am impressed with the quality.
If you want a pragmatic reason why these should become part of Fedora,
here it is: on Windows, MS Office adds Arial Black and Narrow, so
there's some choice of weights for titling and subheads. On Linux
there wasn't one until Gustavo's work.

I sent him more nitty-gritty comments off-list.

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo at centroin.com.br> wrote:
> (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.
>>>
>
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