Re: Funding FontForge

Hi, Behdad.

This was indeed a result of my queries. But even Dave still uses FontForge,
as I remarked to much snickering during my LGM talk this year. And Dave is
far from alone in this regard.

By my estimates, there are about 2,000 active typeface designers in the
world, and the FontForge release from a few weeks ago recently hit 10,000
downloads, not counting Debian and Ubuntu packages. This means that
FontForge has roughly 500% market share. It would be devastating to the
typeface design community to lose access to a tool that 5 in 1 of its
members use regularly.

The death of FontForge is not an end unto itself and does not magically
create a replacement software package. We're probably five years from
having an end-to-end replacement, and people still need to design, to
maintain, and to convert typefaces during that time.

I'm not thrilled about carrying most of the burden, but FontForge must
continue to support its user community, and I hope that its user community
will consider ways to support FontForge during that time.

Best wishes,

Frank


On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <[email protected]> wrote:

> You won't let Fontforge die, do you?!
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Dave Crossland <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> http://consortium.pharo.org/web/Membership seem like a nice idea
>>
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>> Cheers
>> Dave
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