the reasons to open source a font that they've commissioned often mirror the motivations for releasing open source software. For example, programming tool maker JetBrains released a new font ...

Stuart Gill, sfntly architect at Google, announced the release of the sfntly font programming library as open source last week in a <a href="http://googlecode ...

When you’re writing code, picking the font you use is more about utility than beauty. Whether you’re an expert coder, or just starting out, this open source font is easy to read and easy to ...

The Ubuntu community has introduced a namesake open source font. In his blog Tuesday, Ubuntu creator and lead developer Mark Shuttleworth announced the publishing of the first source code for ...

If the open source model has a sweet spot, it’s in programming tools. Linus Torvalds’s fabled “world domination” on the desktops of clerks or CEOs may never arrive, but it’s already here ...

Adobe today launched Adobe Blank, a new open-source OpenType font that, at first glance, does absolutely nothing. Indeed, the whole point of the font, as its creator Ken Lunde writes today ...