The Font Library is a project devoted to hosting and encouraging the creation of

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s released under Free Licenses. It is a sister project to

Openclipart Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art. The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original ...

and hosts over 6000 fonts from over 250 contributors. These are intended to be downloaded, remixed and shared freely. Originally created as an initiative in 2006, the project relaunched on May 12, 2011 at the

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2011 in Montreal by Fabricatorz developer Christopher Adams. The Open Font Library also hosts a mailing list through which font developers discuss ways to improve

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fonts. The site was started with a deployment of

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version 4, and in 2008 Dave Crossland made a funding campaign that raised over US$10,000 from

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and

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to transition to ccHost 5 with a new brand to promote web font linking. However, the work done with the funds was not published until 2010 at the 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels. The project's members meet annually at the Libre Graphics Meeting. In 2011, work supported by Dave Crossland, Christopher Adams, Fabricatorz and other community members got a major release at the LGM in Montreal. Fabricatorz built the project on the

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and managed development via

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. In April 2012, Fabricatorz released an update to Open Font Library that includes an interactive font catalogue preview feature, HTML and CSS code implementation, and a new design by Manufactura Independente.

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* Open content projects Typography Open-source typefaces {{website-stub

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