Last modified: 2012-05-31 14:05:22 UTC
A Blackletter (or Gothic) font would be useful for Wikisource. This is a small matter, only cosmetic, but it would allow Wikisource to better match the original typography of the texts it transcribes. I am not sure how these things work but a Google search suggests that one of these, or something like them, would be suitable under a compatible licence: http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/blackletter http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/cloister-black
webfonts for wikisource? Interesting.
(In reply to comment #0) > > http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/blackletter > http://www.fontspace.com/dieter-steffmann/cloister-black I don't think the above two can be used since the license is not a permissive one(read FOSS). But in the past we got a similar request (not in bugzilla, for a private wiki) and documented here http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.in/2011/09/old-documents-presented-well.html I found http://unifraktur.sourceforge.net/maguntia.html (sample http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/UnifrakturMaguntia) close to our need and having OFL license. Does this font fits to our purpose?
UnifrakturMaguntia looks good. If the licensing works then it's perfect for our needs.
Added UnifrakturMaguntia font in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/9506
