dpk / et-book

A OpenType version of the typeface used in Edward Tufte’s books.
MIT License
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Copyright metadata #18

Open dpk opened 3 years ago

dpk commented 3 years ago

At the moment font copyright metadata is in the UFO fontinfo.plist files and is still unchanged from when the fonts were PS Type 1 and called ET Bembo.

It should apparently be using the OpenType name table to give more detail. See e.g. Source Code Pro’s nameids.

Spec for the nameid numbers.

Mac OS’s Font Book also shows some default information about font embedding rights which it renders to me as ‘Preview and print embedding. This font may be embedded in documents and temporarily loaded on the remote system. Documents containing this font must be opened “read only”; no edits can be applied to the document.’ That’s not accurate either, so I need to work out how that’s being generated and change it to what Source Code Pro has. (‘No embedding restrictions.’)

dpk commented 3 years ago

The embedding information is apparently from the FSType metadata. Set to 0 for an open-source font.