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CNET News: Open Source Casts New Mold for Type Design

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Stephen Shankland
Jul 11, 2006

“The open-source approach, born in the field of programming, is
catching on in a new area: type design.

“In 2003, type design company Bitstream, in conjunction with the
GNOME Foundation, released a font family called Vera for
open-source use. Under the license terms, anyone was permitted to
make new fonts based on Vera, as long as the derivatives were given
a different name…”


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