Creating an editable version of Neo Sans

Nick Cooke
21 May 2012 — 11:12pm

If you want a customised version that won't get you in trouble I'd get in touch with Seb Lester, the designer of the font. He's quite an amenable chap.

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hrant
22 May 2012 — 12:48pm

When you say "editable version", do you simply mean a one-off customized version? Because "editable" makes it sound more involved, like giving your employees the ability to freely modify the font as needed over time - which is a whole different kettle of fish, and something few font houses would agree to (which means you'd need to commission your own custom font instead of modifying Neo Sans).

hhp

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PabloImpallari
22 May 2012 — 4:12pm

Usually, editing Commercial fonts by yourself is not allowed.

On the other hand, your are free (as in freedom), allowed, and encouraged to edit Open Source fonts.
Also, many open source fonts include the "un-merged" source files, making edits much more easy.

You can get almost all the source files for the Open Source fonts featured in Google Webfonts from here: http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

And a few more from the Open font Library:
http://openfontlibrary.org/

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robinhall
22 May 2012 — 4:53pm

We need an editable version of the font because the finance ERP software uses an automated print run. If we print the PDFs manually the font prints correctly, but if we use the print run program the fonts print as Arial.

I'll try contacting Seb Lester directly.

Thanks!

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Theunis de Jong
23 May 2012 — 1:33am

Robinhall, that really really doesn't sound like a problem with Neo Sans. You'd better contact the manufacturor of your finance software.

What does an "editable" font look like? In what way do you think making the font "Editable" would solve your print problem? Tinker with the font until it suddenly works?