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The [[:Category:Fonts SIG| Fonts Special Interest Group]] is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in Fedora. Its activities include: | |||
* [[:Category:Font wishlist| finding]] the best fonts to include, for [[:Category:International fonts| internationalization]] and [[Localization_fonts_requirements| localization]] reasons, or to please our [[:Category:Decorative fonts| artists]], | |||
* [[Packaging fonts|packaging]] new fonts and font tools, | |||
* free/libre font evangelism: convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly [[Legal_considerations_for_fonts| license]], recruit possible free/libre font authors… | |||
* font [[SIGs/Fonts/Dev#font-creation| creation and design]], | |||
* identifying font or text [[SIGs/Fonts/QA| problems]] in applications and libraries, | |||
* [[SIGs/Fonts/Dev| fixing]] them or getting them fixed, | |||
* choosing good Fedora fonts defaults, | |||
* etc | |||
Any font or text-related activity can be tackled, as long as the result is free/libre and compatible with the Fedora objectives. | |||
The current SIG task list is published [[Fonts_SIG_tasks|there]]. | |||
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Revision as of 10:15, 15 June 2008
The Fonts Special Interest Group is dedicated to improving fonts availability and text rendering/layouting in Fedora. Its activities include:
- finding the best fonts to include, for internationalization and localization reasons, or to please our artists,
- packaging new fonts and font tools,
- free/libre font evangelism: convince foundries to release fonts under a free/libre Fedora-friendly license, recruit possible free/libre font authors…
- font creation and design,
- identifying font or text problems in applications and libraries,
- fixing them or getting them fixed,
- choosing good Fedora fonts defaults,
- etc
Any font or text-related activity can be tackled, as long as the result is free/libre and compatible with the Fedora objectives.
The current SIG task list is published there.