LICENSE NOTCOURIER-SANS Copyright (C) 2008 OSP. NotCourier-sans is a re-design of the well known Courier font, originally NotCourier-sans is a re-interpretation designed by Howard Kettler for IBM. of Nimbus Mono and was designed in In the 1950's, Courier became popular Wroclaw at the occasion of the Libre and versions of the typeface were Graphics Meeting 2008. available for almost every typewriter on the market. Being a fixed pitch Copyright (URW)++, Copyright 1999 by font, which means that every character (URW)++ Design & Development; Cyrillic has the same width and therefore glyphs added by Valek Filippov (C) requires no kerning, Courier did not 2001-2005 Cyrillic glyphs added by require much memory and was therefore Valek Filippov (C) 2001-2005. used on most early personal computers. This Font Software is an open font As a basis for NotCourier-sans we have and is released under the GPL v2 with used Nimbus Mono, a clone of Courier embedding exception; you can which was bought from the URW foundry redistribute it and/or modify it under by Artifex, a company maintaing the terms of the GNU General Public Ghostscript printing software. Artifex License as published by the Free released Nimbus under the GPL, an open Software Foundation. license which allows you to open up the This Font Software is distributed in digital drawings in a fonteditor and the hope that it will be useful, but make alterations under the condition WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the that you distribute your derivative implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or under a new name, and allow others to Open Source Publishing is a small FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See do the same. design research team involved in the GNU General Public License for We decided to remove Nimbus' serifs various aspects of the publishing more details. You should have received with raw cuts. We did not soften the cycle, from typography to editorial a copy of the GNU General Public edges (We are not here to be polite). work. OSP tests out in practice how License along with this program; graphic design could work differently, NotCourier-sans currently provides if not, write to the Free Software using free software and open content the following Unicode coverage: Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, licenses. Writers, artists, Basic Latin: 93/128 (72.66%) Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. typographers, web developers and FONTFORGE Latin-1 Supplement: 2/128 (1.56%) software programmers collaborate with The image we used for this poster is us on experimental projects that are a screenshot from FontForge, the The NotCourier-sans is distributed sometimes commissioned and often self software we used to design NotCourier- through the Open Font Library: initiated. Operating from the sans. FontForge is a fonteditor which http://openfontlibrary.org/ assumption that tools-of-the-trade, lets you create your own postscript, design decisions and author rights are truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi- somehow interrelated, OSP finds master, cff, svg and bitmap fonts, or "I think the ideas behind it are alternative methods for gathering edit existing ones. The software also beautiful in my mind — and in some content, production and distribution. lets you convert one format to sense I find the user interface another. FontForge is released under beautiful. I’m not sure that anyone http://ospublish.constantvzw.org an open license which means that else in the world does, because it’s anyone can use, study, modify and what I want, but I think it’s distribute the software. beautiful." http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ (George Williams, FontForge developer, May 2007)

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