Two updates

Firstly, to brag about the conference I helped to organise at St Bride Library on 7 November. Entitled ‘Letterpress: a celebration’ the idea of the conference was to bring together people from across the surprisingly broad field of letterpress printing and let them get to know more about each other. We were privileged to get great speakers and exhibitors, sell out, and receive lots of complimentary comments.

Secondly, to mention the new version of the Open Font Library site [current version] which I spent much of October working on. It’s not by any means finished, but it’s looking good; we have worked hard to explain what the site is for and how to get involved, and provided some guidance on font formats and licensing.

Ed Trager is making a character viewer that enables users to get a preview of each font using any one of a gazillion keyboard layouts, so we will be able to go far beyond simply supporting the Latin alphabet. We also have a very simple @font-face CSS rule generator. The credit for the site’s good looks (at this stage of development) goes to my brother James, who did the visual design and wrote the CSS. Internet Dave raised funding for the work and held the project together. To stay up to date with progress, watch this space, or join the OFLB mailing list.