Re: [upstream url search] the master font thread

[ng0 <ng0@infotropique.org>]

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> > As of 2017-08-04 this is the list of fonts.google.com as taken from a listing
> > of the "ofl" directory in the repository for it (https://github.com/google/fonts).
> > We concluded that at least some of the fonts (maybe all of them) are simply taken
> > from upstream sources.
> > 
> > This is a very long list, so I want to use this thread to dissect it and collect
> > upstream sources. For what reasons?
> > - We will be able to create a "google-fonts-meta" package so that someone could
> >   use it to run an alternative to google font hosting, or even host it locally
> >   for whatever reasons.
> > - Because some of the fonts are really good and if people could just use them
> >   from guix instead of google.com, that's cool.
> > - More organs means better human! Ehm... more fonts are better, of course.
> > - For science. And last not least:
> > « - Dis Cortex, tu veux faire quoi cette nuit ?
> > - La même chose que chaque nuit, Minus, tenter de conquérir le monde !
> > 
> > Fonts we have are marked with an "#" at the start of the name
> > and comment below if necessary.
> > URLs will be written in parens behind a font, like
> > craftygirls/  (https://random.host/dist/doesnotexist)
> > 
> > A bugtracker might not be ideal for this, but it is a start.
> > 
> …
> > OFL:
> …
> > abel/
> 
> Whoever finds the Abel Google is shipping,
> gets a promise for a free coffee or whatever.
> 
> With Lato and Dosis I have already unbundled 2/3
> of the fonts I have been using from Google for
> the website redesign I'm occupied with. Abel would
> be the missing 3rd, but "it is difficult" at least
> not within 2 minutes.
> 
> Upstream source: http://www.madtype.com/webfonts/

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/abel

Would anyone be okay with using this source? It seems
versioned and the only official source remaining
seems to be directly inside Googlefonts (guessing by
how many times the upstream location mention and links
to it). The newer versions of this font (Pro) are sold.

Well we can use github and pull just the single file,
which is okay.

fontlibrary.org could be a fallback if google in a
typical google move decides to ever shutdown the
fonts service (and with it the source for its fonts).
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