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Remembering Vernon Adams, creator of KDE's user-interface font Oxygen

196 points by zobzu 10y ago

huac 10y ago
His website: http://sansoxygen.com/ http://sansoxygen.com/ has a collection of posts from his family and friends as well from his last days. RIP.
- emilsedgh 10y ago
  Those pictures broke my heart. RIP.
  - joekim 10y ago
    Mine too. I'm wasn't familiar with his work, but I was moved by the lovely pictures of Vernon Adams with his family. Fonts are pretty important. I spend most of my day looking at text so readability is key.
- infodroid 10y ago
  That's his wife's blog by the way.
- davidgerard 10y ago
  Also, from an LWN comment: > Please donate to the family to give back for his work. > http://sansoxygen.com/donate/ http://sansoxygen.com/donate/
jgrahamc 10y ago
Always so hard to read about someone my own age (young!) dying. RIP
infodroid 10y ago
This encyclopedia entry is a good overview of his work: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-47641.html http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-47641.html He was the designer of the widely-used Oswald font, hosted at Google Fonts, and was a passionate advocate for the creative possibilities of open source. This is his essay Free Fonts – Freeness as a Technological Component of Typeface Design: https://web.archive.org/web/20130514085121/http://code.newtypography.co.uk/freeness-as-a-technological-function-of-type-design/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130514085121/http://code.newty... His blog at his design site New Typography has been down for months, but can still be viewed at archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150707211405/http://code.newtypography.co.uk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150707211405/http://code.newty...
pcunite 10y ago
I think KDE was my first Linux GUI ... can't remember. I do know that I really liked it.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  Mine too I think, back in Mandrake (later Mandriva) days. I would never use anything but KDE until Ubuntu arrived a few years later and I still have a soft spot for KDE.
symlinkk 10y ago
Looks like he also created Oswald, one of the most popular fonts on Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald
unexistance 10y ago
a few of his other fonts, in github https://github.com/vernnobile https://github.com/vernnobile I will use it

196 points by zobzu 10y ago

huac 10y ago

His website: http://sansoxygen.com/ http://sansoxygen.com/ has a collection of posts from his family and friends as well from his last days. RIP.

emilsedgh 10y ago
Those pictures broke my heart. RIP.
- joekim 10y ago
  Mine too. I'm wasn't familiar with his work, but I was moved by the lovely pictures of Vernon Adams with his family. Fonts are pretty important. I spend most of my day looking at text so readability is key.
infodroid 10y ago
That's his wife's blog by the way.
davidgerard 10y ago
Also, from an LWN comment: > Please donate to the family to give back for his work. > http://sansoxygen.com/donate/ http://sansoxygen.com/donate/

jgrahamc 10y ago

Always so hard to read about someone my own age (young!) dying. RIP

infodroid 10y ago

This encyclopedia entry is a good overview of his work: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-47641.html http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-47641.html He was the designer of the widely-used Oswald font, hosted at Google Fonts, and was a passionate advocate for the creative possibilities of open source. This is his essay Free Fonts – Freeness as a Technological Component of Typeface Design: https://web.archive.org/web/20130514085121/http://code.newtypography.co.uk/freeness-as-a-technological-function-of-type-design/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130514085121/http://code.newty... His blog at his design site New Typography has been down for months, but can still be viewed at archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20150707211405/http://code.newtypography.co.uk/ https://web.archive.org/web/20150707211405/http://code.newty...

pcunite 10y ago

I think KDE was my first Linux GUI ... can't remember. I do know that I really liked it.

reitanqild 10y ago
Mine too I think, back in Mandrake (later Mandriva) days. I would never use anything but KDE until Ubuntu arrived a few years later and I still have a soft spot for KDE.

symlinkk 10y ago

Looks like he also created Oswald, one of the most popular fonts on Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald

unexistance 10y ago

a few of his other fonts, in github https://github.com/vernnobile https://github.com/vernnobile I will use it