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

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This encyclopedia entry is a good overview of his work: 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.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.newty...

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

RIP.

Those pictures broke my heart.

RIP.

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.

That's his wife's blog by the way.

Also, from an LWN comment:

> Please donate to the family to give back for his work.

> http://sansoxygen.com/donate/

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

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

RIP

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

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.

a few of his other fonts, in github

https://github.com/vernnobile

I will use it

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