The design of the site Open Font Library has changed

The appearance of the openfontlibrary.org website, created by Libre Font Fund for storing and distributing free fonts (primarily in the interests of TeX users, but also in the interests of the public good), has found significant changes in the last year. Also changed are the elements of its internal structure, filling and functioning - all that we call design.

Before, the site had just lists of fonts, and now they have become functionally more complex and more useful.

First of all, it is noticeable that the name of each font is now displayed by the font itself. (Unfortunately, this uses a raw font in TTF or OTF format. The WOFF format would be about four times smaller in size, contributing to more economical font downloading, faster display of titles.)
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For each of the fonts, a test field appeared that allows you to type in arbitrary text and have a look (directly on the site) how it will look. Unlike the Typekit website, where the Russian text did not work in my test field , the Open Font Library allows you to test the Cyrillic alphabet unrestrainedly. Unfortunately, there is a lack of such a slider or a drop-down list that would allow to control the font size - and meanwhile it would be useful to check the fonts not only in large size (in which the outlines of the font are best seen), but also in a small one (to assess the suitability of to the design of the main text of sites).

Archives of previous versions of the font are preserved as the author works on its development.

A wiki was hooked up to the site (on the MediaWiki engine), and a publicly available bug tracker , and a page to collect the desired new features .

Perhaps only one thing is annoying: on this new site it is not possible to find the font according to the language of its characters. In the review “We get free fonts for the Russian language in order to survive the Second typographical revolution in the Web ” I gave the address where all the fonts specified there could be found on the Open Font Library website with the help of the Cyrillic alphabet. Now this address does not work either, and Cyrillic fonts are not so easy to find. Is that brute force: on the page of each font are those writing systems that the font supports.

The Open Font Library website now has more fonts than before. More than ninety families. Not so little: brute force them turned out to be time consuming. But not so much: in Google Web Fonts three times more.