I know, it’s a little OT in here, but I guess it’s of interest to many
SDL developers.
I’m programming on a small (well, more or less small - it’s taking
almost a year now… but I’m getting somewhere!) game which will be
released under the GPL. I just switched from the SFont package to SDL_ttf.
Now what I need are… fonts. Normal fonts. Like Luxi Sans or something.
Nothing fancy, just regular, regular, simple fonts. Which I can
redistribute when included in my game, of course…
So the best thing would be GPLed TTF-fonts. This is a problem. I’ve
been searching for almost an hour now and only found cyrillic or fancy
fonts. Could anybody please point me to a location where I get normal,
GPLed fonts?
Could anybody please point me to a location where I get normal,
GPLed fonts?
I don’t think you want GPL’d fonts. What you want are Free Fonts
that have little or no restrictions on use and distribution.
I’d stop looking for the GPL keyword, and just google for "free ttf"
or “free truetype” or “free font” all of these should turn up plenty.
Just look at the individual licenses, and if they don’t have any, try
to contact the fonts author ia email, as many individuals make fonts
but don’t put up explicit licensing information.
The SDL_ttf docs have a few links in the Getting Started section.
Even one Google link that does a search for you…
Now what I need are… fonts. Normal fonts. Like Luxi Sans or something.
Nothing fancy, just regular, regular, simple fonts. Which I can
redistribute when included in my game, of course…
So the best thing would be GPLed TTF-fonts. This is a problem. I’ve
been searching for almost an hour now and only found cyrillic or fancy
fonts. Could anybody please point me to a location where I get normal,
GPLed fonts?
I know, it’s a little OT in here, but I guess it’s of interest to many
SDL developers.
I’m programming on a small (well, more or less small - it’s taking
almost a year now… but I’m getting somewhere!) game which will be
released under the GPL. I just switched from the SFont package to SDL_ttf.
Now what I need are… fonts. Normal fonts. Like Luxi Sans or something.
Nothing fancy, just regular, regular, simple fonts. Which I can
redistribute when included in my game, of course…
Also, the luxi fonts that come with X11 are freely redistributable.
Bob PendletonOn Sun, 2004-12-05 at 15:03, Johannes Bauer wrote:
So the best thing would be GPLed TTF-fonts. This is a problem. I’ve
been searching for almost an hour now and only found cyrillic or fancy
fonts. Could anybody please point me to a location where I get normal,
GPLed fonts?
I don’t think you want GPL’d fonts. What you want are Free Fonts
that have little or no restrictions on use and distribution.
I’d stop looking for the GPL keyword, and just google for "free ttf"
or “free truetype” or “free font” all of these should turn up plenty.
The problem here is you’ll get about 15 zillion “Free Font Home Page” sites
put up by Joe and Jane Dumbass, where they’ve decided to throw up a copy
of every TTF font they’ve ever downloaded… nicely and neatly extracted
from their original ZIP file, with the original documentation/author/copyright
discarded, for your inconvenience. ;^)
Just look at the individual licenses, and if they don’t have any, try
to contact the fonts author ia email, as many individuals make fonts
but don’t put up explicit licensing information.
Which is good, if you find the font at the author’s own website. That can
be like looking for a needle in a haystack. ;^) You could, I guess, run
’strings’ on the TTF file itself and grep around for copyright/author
information, which would give you a lead. (Assuming the author’s name isn’t
extremely generic, like “John Smith” ;^) )
But that means nothing for folks around here (when talking about using
the fonts directly in an app, via SDL_ttf[*]).
Free for download often does NOT mean "free to redistribute."
Or if it does, there are restrictions (“can’t be sold on a CDROM” is a
good example… or “must be in its original ZIP file”, which ends up
being useless)
-bill!
[*] Vs. just using the font to draw some graphics in The Gimp or Photoshop.
And even then, some fonts might have restrictions on such use!On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:36:26AM +0000, James O’Meara wrote:
The problem here is you’ll get about 15 zillion “Free Font Home Page” sites
put up by Joe and Jane Dumbass, where they’ve decided to throw up a copy
of every TTF font they’ve ever downloaded… nicely and neatly extracted
from their original ZIP file, with the original documentation/author/copyright
discarded, for your inconvenience. ;^)
Exactly… exactly my problem. And I really want to make sure my project
is on solid ground… although I don’t think anybody is going to sue me
I would find it very discomforting using stuff of somebody else who
didn’t allow me to do so in the first place.
From: Bill Kendrick [mailto:nbs@sonic.net]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:38 PM
To: A list for developers using the SDL library. (includes SDL-announce)
Subject: Re: [SDL] Re: Where to get normal GPLed fonts?
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:36:26AM +0000, James O’Meara wrote:
Now I’m not exactly sure what the GPL entails, but I know all the fonts
there
are free for download.
But that means nothing for folks around here (when talking about using
the fonts directly in an app, via SDL_ttf[*]).
Free for download often does NOT mean "free to redistribute."
Or if it does, there are restrictions (“can’t be sold on a CDROM” is a
good example… or “must be in its original ZIP file”, which ends up
being useless)
-bill!
[*] Vs. just using the font to draw some graphics in The Gimp or Photoshop.
And even then, some fonts might have restrictions on such use!
I know, it’s a little OT in here, but I guess it’s of interest to many
SDL developers.
I’m programming on a small (well, more or less small - it’s taking
almost a year now… but I’m getting somewhere!) game which will be
released under the GPL. I just switched from the SFont package to SDL_ttf.
Now what I need are… fonts. Normal fonts. Like Luxi Sans or something.
Nothing fancy, just regular, regular, simple fonts. Which I can
redistribute when included in my game, of course…
So the best thing would be GPLed TTF-fonts. This is a problem. I’ve
been searching for almost an hour now and only found cyrillic or fancy
fonts. Could anybody please point me to a location where I get normal,
GPLed fonts?
Thanks very much,
Greetings,
Johannes
Hi, I’m from Russia. I work on a control panel for a televison system.
Can you tell me exact address (or email it to me) of cyrillic fonts (or
just what you googled for)??
Thank U!!
