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How to distribute an open source font in a git repository? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello, for a few days I have been looking at how to make a git repository to store a free font so that everyone can use it, modify it and redistribute it, the thing is that many have different ways of distributing the source code, and it is not very clear how. Do it in a way that is similar to an open source program. The typography is being made with fontforge, what would be the most optimal way to distribute this font to make it open source?

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[–] xcjs 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not familiar with creating fonts specifically, but you'll want to commit any resources necessary to recreate the font file, including any build scripts to help ease the process and instructions specifying compatible versions of tooling (FontForge in this case). Don't include FontForge in the repository, of course.

The compiled font files should be under releases in GitHub for the repository.

Git isn't generally meant for binary resources but as long as they're not too large, they'll be fine. You just may not have meaningful ways to compare changes easily.