Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)

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Post by jozydapozy » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:52 AM UTC

Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)
xkcd.com

Re: Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)

#2

Post by jobvandervoort » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 10:58 AM UTC

What is the license on this?

It'd be great to know before people start using it.

Re: Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)

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Post by nemexy » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:09 AM UTC

Okey that was scary, clicking a link and automatically downloading the file.

Is there any way you can change it to link to a website, where we can see a preview, for example, and download it from there? Automatic download without any explaination is a really bad user experience.

Re: Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)

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Post by lxfontes » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 11:21 AM UTC

Clicking on the link automatically downloads: http://www.xkcd.com/fonts/xkcd-Regular.otf

License = apparently Creative Commons https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font

Re: Xkcd font (direct download link to OTF)

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Post by jozydapozy » Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 12:09 PM UTC

nemexy wrote: post #3

Okey that was scary, clicking a link and automatically downloading the file. Is there any way you can change it to link to a website, where we can see a preview, for example, and download it from there? Automatic download without any explaination is a really bad user experience.

You're right, sorry. I've changed to post title to make it clear it's a direct download link.

By the way, this seems to be a slightly different version of the font: http://xkcd.com/1506/xkcd-Regular.otf