Creating fonts (good ones) is considerably harder than it may seem. The tools to do so are limited and aren't being supported well. An open source tool similar to Fontographer (but with more features and updates) would be welcome. Many private font companies develop their own in house software to create fonts. The really big stumbling block is that most font design is done on the mac and right now there are no font creation tools I know of for mac osx.
I don't believe that it is a question of whether this decision would cause a fork, my question is how you think that this decision will effect the "digital divide". Will it become just another hoop for preventing the under-privileged and neglected from self publishing?
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Creating fonts (good ones) is considerably harder than it may seem. The tools to do so are limited and aren't being supported well. An open source tool similar to Fontographer (but with more features and updates) would be welcome. Many private font companies develop their own in house software to create fonts. The really big stumbling block is that most font design is done on the mac and right now there are no font creation tools I know of for mac osx.
I don't believe that it is a question of whether this decision would cause a fork, my question is how you think that this decision will effect the "digital divide". Will it become just another hoop for preventing the under-privileged and neglected from self publishing?