Foundry

Welcome to the OSP-foundry!

Here you find all fonts produced by OSP. Some of them are complete typefaces, others works in progress. They are all Libre Fonts, meaning they are released under libre software licenses that allow modification, re-distribution and use.

More about why we make/use Libre fonts.

For us, typography is more than the work of solitary masters passing on their secret trade to devoted pupils, committed as they are to a specialist work overlooked by most common people. This image that is carefully preserved in the closed world of type design, obscures the fact that typography today is lightweight and widespread. It certainly contrasts with the invitation of Free Software to anyone to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve.

Could the production and distribution of Libre Fonts turn this patriarchal system inside out? What if expert and amateur users work together and make improvements to the typefaces they use, what if they share these fixes with others? What if the design of a typeface would benefit from the many eyes of designers working around the world? What if a typeface was not a fixed entity, but a networked set of elements, responding to context and types of use?

At OSP we feel typography is inherently generative, especially since digital files have everything to gain from being copied and re-mixed. We’d rather work with their constraints and affordances, than rely on a contradictory business model that invests more in copyright enforcement than in creative development itself. Typographers forge by nature and (sadly often without credit) appropriate the ideas and designs of their colleagues. We prefer to be explicit about the provenance of our glyphs and curves and hope you enjoy the result as much as we do.

fluxisch-else

Last update: 29th May 2023 - 12:30 pierreh argued: (re)initiated the OFL licence

Today she started with C.

ume

Last update: 21st October 2022 - 16:27 Ludi exposed: adding iceberg pictures

erbarre

Last update: 14th May 2021 - 16:08 Gelgon rendered: add nacute

Le nombre de membres effectif ne peut être inférieur à trois.

belgica-belgika

Last update: 6th November 2020 - 11:51 pierreh claimed: Upload New File

The association is constituted for an undetermined period. It can be dissolved at any time.

alfphabet

Last update: 4th July 2020 - 18:00 pierreh babbled: Update README.md

Print parties, workshops, performances, exhibitions and lectures

crickx

Last update: 30th June 2020 - 10:36 pierreh argued: Update README.html

Les pratiques façonnent les outils - les outils façonnent les pratiques

polsku

Last update: 12th October 2018 - 10:01 Ludi blabbed out: Merge branch 'master' of gitlab.constantvzw.org:osp/foundry.polsku

We are writing you because we just published Sans Guilt.

w-droge

Last update: 12th October 2018 - 09:31 Stéphanie Vilayphiou exposed: webfonts

We are writing you because we just published Sans Guilt.

vj12

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:34 Stéphanie Vilayphiou let out: webfonts

Did she feel the author of her alphabet?

sans-guilt-wafer

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:34 Stéphanie Vilayphiou published: webfonts

The association is constituted for an undetermined period. It can be dissolved at any time.

reglo

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:33 Stéphanie Vilayphiou ironized: webfonts

Le nombre de membres effectif ne peut être inférieur à trois.

philibert

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:32 Stéphanie Vilayphiou stated: webfonts

Le logiciel libre, par sa nature ouverte, invite à comprendre les mécanismes des outils numériques

osp-din

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:30 Stéphanie Vilayphiou shouted: webfonts

le concept de culture libre s’étend (…) au dessin, à l’écriture, au design d’objets etc.

notcouriersans

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:28 Stéphanie Vilayphiou stated: webfonts

Did she feel the author of her alphabet?

mill

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:26 Stéphanie Vilayphiou cried: webfonts

Le nombre de membres effectif ne peut être inférieur à trois.

libertinage

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:24 Stéphanie Vilayphiou admitted: structure UFR + webfonts

le-patin-helvete

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:23 Stéphanie Vilayphiou verbalized: structure UFR + webfonts

cowboy-henk

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:11 Stéphanie Vilayphiou talked: structure UFR + webfonts

Free Culture and Free Software challenge the excesses of copyright.

cimatics

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:09 Stéphanie Vilayphiou verbalized: structure UFR + webfonts

Practices shape tools—tools shape practices.

certegeska

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:09 Stéphanie Vilayphiou confessed: structure UFR

We are writing you because we just published Sans Guilt.

belogodor

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:08 Stéphanie Vilayphiou verbalized: structure UFR

Never alone.

ax-28-script

Last update: 5th October 2018 - 16:03 Stéphanie Vilayphiou verbalised: webfonts

Today she started with C.

work-avec

Last update: 20th October 2017 - 16:33 Colm uttered: move folder to UFR structure

The association is constituted for an undetermined period. It can be dissolved at any time.

stories

Last update: 24th April 2016 - 23:50 Pierre Huyghebaert gave away: Initiate a little iceberg with a cover

metadin

Last update: 24th April 2016 - 23:39 Ludi discovered: yeah a cover of P

limousine

Last update: 15th September 2013 - 00:07 Eric Schrijver spilled the beans: The image called iceberg/{font_slug}_banner.png will show up as the banner

(Rename for the git based implementation of the OSP Foundry design)

sans-guilt

Last update: 15th September 2013 - 00:06 Eric Schrijver brought out: The image called iceberg/{font_slug}_banner.png will show up as the banner

(Rename for the git based implementation of the OSP Foundry design)

dlf

Last update: 14th September 2013 - 23:56 Eric Schrijver exposed: The image called iceberg/{font_slug}_banner.png will show up as the banner

(Rename for the git based implementation of the OSP Foundry design)

logisoso

Last update: 14th September 2013 - 23:54 Eric Schrijver ironized: The image called iceberg/{font_slug}_banner.png will show up as the banner

(Rename for the git based implementation of the OSP Foundry design)

metafont

Last update: 12th March 2013 - 15:53 Stéphanie Vilayphiou divulged: tant qu'à faire on met les preview png dans l'iceberg non?

skeleton

Last update: 24th February 2011 - 19:43 Alexandre Leray emited: Touched empty files to force git to track the directories

We would also be proud to publish the uses (and modifications) you make of the fonts on our website. ☺
Clone our repositories via Gitlab. Your contribution is welcome.

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