Bitstream To Donate 10 Fonts To Free Software World

21mhz writes "Posted on FootNotes: The GNOME Foundation and Bitstream Inc. announce long-term agreement to bring high quality fonts to Free Software. Ten fonts will be released for use under a special open license agreement, giving advanced font capabilities to all free and open source software developers and users. Read the full press release for more details." Modification and re-release (under a different name) is explicitly allowed, too.

free fonts

[Anonymous Coward]

get free fonts at free fonts.com [freefonts.com]

Yes!

[Gortbusters.org]

These 10 fonts shall increase my usability experience, allowing me to show them off to all!

It's always good to hear news like this.. companies don't need to open source everything.. just donate a little to the community and it'll fill our hearts with warm feelings.

You know you're a geek

[mao che minh]

You know you're a geek when you get excited about the release of new fonts.

Re:fonts types vs anti-aliasing

[chrisseaton]

Linus is not very good at displaying the fonts

I don't think you can directly blame him :)

Re:fonts types vs anti-aliasing

[Knacklappen]

Linus is not very good at displaying the fonts, unfortunately.

On the other hand, Bill isn't too good at this, either. ;-)

(Just making fun of my own typo.)

Hehe...

[Chicane-UK]

I can imagine Microsoft doing something like this.. a totally out of the blue, unexpected gesture, getting everyone really excited.

Then they release ten variations of webdings.. the press release says "Try rendering your pages using THOSE on Mozilla!" :)

And the fonts are...

[HarveyBirdman]

1. Helvetica WayTooNarrow

2. Jesse Ventura Bold

3. Another Godamnned Star Trek Font

4. Cthulhu HyperItalic

5. Penis Extra Small

6. Fertilizus Dungbats

7. Douche Medium

8. Bush Wacky Wingdings

9. MS AntiTrust

10. End Times Extra Dark

Will it become 20 fonts

[miracle69]

When this story becomes a repost in about 8 hours?

Horrible rumor

[DeadBugs]

I hear that 9 of the 10 fonts are variations of the famed MS Wingdings.

Absolutely!

[melquiades]

You know you're a geek when you get excited about the release of new fonts.

No kidding.

Of course, if I were posting this from a Linux machine, I wouldn't be excited, because I wouldn't be able to fucking read the story.

You got one wrong:

[GQuon]

8. West Wingdings

Screenshot

[hysterion]

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Psst... LSD users

[efflux]

Do you wanna know how to keep those melting glyphs looking really sharp? Sub-cutaneous trepaning! Yes, it has a little visible color spewing from your head, but it gives you the same wonderful effect that you get with Windows XP.

Re:free fonts

[JeanFiend]

If you like f ree f on t s l ook i ng l i k e t h i s, sure. Be my guest.

Re:Linux gets fonts?

[ChaoticLimbs]

Agh, another GNU/Linux puritan. Good one-liner, though.