tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390 Linux4All Linux4All 2012-09-30T11:07:14Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-09:26390:28907 Thomas Fischer 2012-09-29T20:35:51Z 2012-09-30T11:07:14Z creative public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='t_fischer' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://t-fischer.dreamwidth.org/'><b>t_fischer</b></a></span><br /><br /><p>Eager to get as many fonts as possible, but the fonts should be still legal and of high quality? If you are a web developer, you may already know <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts">Google's Web Fonts</a>. Google provides you with CSS snipplets that allow you to integrated those fonts into you own webpages. Of course, Google does <em>not own</em> those fonts, but instead uses publicly available fonts which were released under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/">Apache license</a> or the <a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL">Open Font License</a>.</p><p>You can not only used those fonts for you webpages, but on your own machine as well. All fonts are available for download through a <a href="https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/checkout">Mercurial repository</a>. If cloning the Mercurial distributed repository is not an option for you (e.&thinsp;g. it is quite large), you can fetch all fonts through the <a href="http://googlefontdirectory.googlecode.com/hg/">web interface</a>. To simplify this task, I wrote a small <a href="https://gitorious.org/tfscripts/linuxcommandline/blobs/raw/master/fetchgooglewebfonts.sh">Bash script (plus some Perl magic and Curl) to fetch all font files</a>, available at my <a href="">Gitorious repository</a>. <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux</a> users can use the ebuild <a href="https://gitorious.org/tfscripts/gentoo-ebuilds/trees/master/media-fonts/googlewebfonts">media-fonts/googlewebfonts</a>.</p><p>Enjoy more than 1000 font files of a total size of more than 150&thinsp;MB!</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=linux4all&ditemid=28907" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments