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Free fonts

Dave Crossland -

Fonts are not software, but they ought to be free for the same reasons as software and encyclopedias. I've spent the last ten years as a software freedom activist working on fonts, and I'll show you how I got started, where I'm going, and some of the hundreds of free fonts I've commissioned for writing systems around the world along the way.

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Fonts are not software, but they ought to be libre for the same reasons as software and encyclopedias. I've spent the last ten years as a software freedom activist working on fonts, and I'll show you how I got started, where I'm going, and some of the hundreds of free fonts I've commissioned for writing systems around the world along the way. Finally I'll reveal my take on the most commonly asked question I'm asked about the software freedom movement: how to earn money when giving products away free of charge.

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Dave Crossland, Crafting Type

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Computers were irresistible to me, growing up in the suburban arcadia of south west England in the 1990s. But being “good with computers” pointed towards the life depicted in Fight Club, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics. Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to the BA Interaction Design programme at Ravensbourne College in London.

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By the time I graduated in 2006, I was fascinated with the potential of software freedom for graphic design and typography. I decided to free fonts. I attended the University of Reading’s MA Typeface Design programme and graduated in 2009. In my thesis I related the history of the software freedom movement to key concepts in type design. My student project “Cantarell” was included in the launch of Google Web Fonts and chosen as the default User Interface font for GNOME 3. 2010-2014 I consulted for Google on the Google Fonts project, commissioning new typefaces designed for the web. I also started the Crafting Type project, which lectures on typeface design with free software around the world. I believe that anyone can learn to draw, that CouchSurfing is the best way to travel, and that Transition Towns is important.

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Computers were irresistible to me, growing up in the suburbia of southwest England in the 1990s. But being “good with computers” pointed towards the life depicted in Office Space, so in high school I dropped maths and physics for contemporary art and socio-linguistics. Combining my interests in art and computers eventually led me to graphic design at college. I decided to free fonts.

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