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]]>The Creative Commons (CC) License Chooser was made nearly 15 years ago and is long overdue for an update. The purpose of the CC Chooser is to help users choose which CC license is right for them and their needs. However, since its release, it has fallen short in a few respects.
First, the user interface is quite cluttered, with no clear visual hierarchy. For example, elements on the page appear to be fighting for equal importance. Second, the lack of a clear call-to-action makes it difficult to get started using the tool. Third, it’s difficult to understand what the selected license means, as well as get an idea of what the full CC license suite has to offer due to a lack of information.
The New Chooser
Since May 2019, an updated version of the CC License Chooser has been in development as part of the 2019 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). The main goal of the original GSoC project, “Human-Centered Education of CC Licenses,” was to revamp the CC Chooser with a greater focus on usability and on the educational experience of the license suite. Today, the updated CC Chooser is still a work in progress, particularly with regards to the user interface design and internationalization.
A screenshot of the updated CC License Chooser, as of early 2019.
The screenshot above shows a small section of the new CC Chooser. At the top of the image is the updated CC license selection section. In terms of design and usability, this is already a huge improvement over the existing CC Chooser. However, we’re still making minor improvements based on user feedback. We’ve carried over the functionality of the HTML license mark generator from the original CC Chooser but added rich text generation, simplified it to be more usable, and brought a more contemporary look to the generated mark.
A new addition to the CC Chooser is what we call the “Help Section,” which can be seen at the bottom of the image. The purpose of this section is to help answer questions that users might have during the license selection process and to help users get a better idea of what the CC license suite has to offer, as well as how it works.
What’s Next?
The new CC Chooser still needs some work before it’s ready to become the CC Chooser. For example, we need to:
- Make improvements to the CC Chooser’s UI and selection process. This includes making license selection easier, simplifying the UI, and integrating it with CC’s new web design system called Vocabulary.
- Internationalize the CC Chooser (i.e. make it available in multiple languages)
- Finish technical work related to the CC Chooser’s infrastructure
The UI improvements and internationalization work are core objectives of the Outreachy internship running from December 2019 to March 2020. Olga Bulat is the Outreachy intern currently working on the CC License Chooser. She’s experimenting with the introduction of a step-based system for CC license selection, which will help guide the user through the various licensing considerations. She’ll also be collaborating with CC’s legal counsel and communications team to provide updated text describing each license in a clear and succinct way.
Tasks, issues, and discussions related to the release of the new CC Chooser are tracked with the Launch Milestone in the creativecommons/cc-chooser repository on GitHub.
How Can I Contribute?
Anyone can contribute by testing the beta deployment of the new CC License Chooser. At the top of the page, there is a link to a feedback form. Take a look at the new CC Chooser and let us know what you think! You can also join the #cc-dev-license-chooser channel on Creative Commons’ Slack and keep an eye out for calls for volunteers to test usability.
Those who are technically inclined can contribute by fixing code issues, as well as finding and reporting bugs. The GitHub repo for the new CC Chooser is called “cc-chooser,” and can be found here. Please remember to read the contributing section in the chooser repo’s README. Issues marked with the green “help wanted” tag are open to contributors, however issues marked with the yellow “in progress” tag are not open.
Quick Links
- New Chooser (Beta): https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/
- Existing Chooser: https://creativecommons.org/choose/
- GitHub Repository (source code): https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-chooser
- Contributing to the code: https://github.com/creativecommons/cc-chooser#contributing
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]]>Creative Commons (CC) is working towards providing easy access to CC-licensed and public domain works. One significant step towards achieving that goal was the release of CC Search in 2019. Through this search and indexing tool, we’re making a plethora of CC-licensed images accessible in one place. As CC Search expands to include more than just images, CC is also developing a suite of applications and interfaces to help users across the world interact, consume, and reuse open access content.
The CC Search Browser Extension is one such application. This browser extension is an open-source, lightweight plugin that can be installed and used by anyone with an updated web browser.
Why did we create this browser extension?
Browsers are the gateway to the web, and users often install browser plugins to improve productivity and overall experience. With the CC Search Browser Extension, users can now search for CC-licensed images, download them, and attribute the owner/creator without needing to head over to Flickr, Behance, Rawpixel or any other source of CC-licensed content. The other great feature? The CC Search Browser Extension works across different browsers, providing a familiar and intuitive experience for all users.
Install the latest version of the extension via Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera!
Key features of the CC Search Browser Extension:
- Search and filter CC-licensed content
You can use the extension filters to filter the content by the source website, types of licenses, and/or use-case.
- One-click attribution
One condition of all CC licenses is attribution. Attributing the owner/creator of CC-licensed content found using the extension is easy with one-click attribution. Both the Rich-text and HTML versions of the attribution are available.
- Download images (and attribution)
Download the image to use it in your works through the extension itself. You can also download the attribution information as a text file along with the image; this can be helpful when downloading multiple images in a single session.
- Bookmark images
Bookmarking the images will save them in the extension. You can view and remove your bookmarks from the bookmarks section.
- Export and import bookmarks
As a user, you can easily archive and/or transfer your bookmarks. This feature makes sure that the process of archiving and transferring bookmarks is uncomplicated and straightforward.
- User-interface (UI) options available for custom settings
The extension also allows for setting default filters, etc. The “Options” page helps declutter the main popup of the extension, ensuring that it shows only the most necessary information. In the future, this “Options” page will also host additional and updated features.
- Sync your custom settings and bookmarks across devices
Chrome and Firefox have a built-in feature that syncs browser settings and preferences across your logged-in devices. The extension leverages this feature to sync your custom settings and bookmarks. This will make your experience more pleasant and familiar.
- Dark Mode
The extension also has a dark mode that you can toggle “on” by clicking the icon in the header. This reduces screen glare and battery consumption. You can set the dark mode as default in the “Options” page.
Future plans and development
- Find and fix bugs
- Add a review and feedback tab on the “Options” page
- Integrate Vocabulary into the extension
- Develop usability enhancements
- Remove infinite scrolling and replace it with pagination or voluntary loading
- Add search syntax for better specificity of results and a search syntax guide
- Make the code more modular and add more tests
- Port the features of the CC Search web application that are relevant in the context of the browser plugin
Installation
The latest version of the extension is available for installation via Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera.
Join the community
Community contribution and feedback is an essential part of the development process, so we encourage you to contact us if you have feedback or a specific suggestion. This is an open-source project, you can contribute in the form of bug reports, feature requests, or code contributions.
To install the development version of the extension, read the installation guide on Github.
Finally, come and tell us about your experience on the Creative Commons Slack via the slack channel: #cc-dev-browser-extension.
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]]>Our recent collaboration with a group of students from UC Berkeley was a true exercise in this cycle of creation and collaboration.
In the fall of 2019, instructors of the UC Berkeley graduate course, Product Design Studio, approached us to act as “clients” to a group of students learning how to solve complex design challenges. Of course, we said yes! And thanks to prior user research on CC Search, we already knew what design challenges we faced but were struggling with how to fix them—that’s where the students’ insights were critical.
Above is a screenshot of the students’ proposed prototype for an improved CC Search. (CC BY)
Like a well-trained team of consultants, they immediately asked thoughtful questions about the proposed design challenges, reframed them in terms of the user journey, and identified what they would be tackling. Early on, they were able to identify that the key challenge we face with CC Search is how to convey complex CC license and attribution information in a way that is succinct, actionable, and engaging.
Fast forward to the end of our four-week collaboration and the students left us with an immensely impressive outcome: a user research report of nearly 40 pages, a presentation highlighting and explaining their final design choices, and several interactive, high-fidelity prototypes.
In aggregate, the UC Berkeley students dedicated dozens of hours to this project while we provided guidance, feedback, and insights along the way.
After completing the project, student Janine Rosenbaum told us, “Working on CC Search gave me hands-on experience…I really enjoyed the great teamwork and learned a lot of new things, especially regarding user testing.”
Student Victor Grajski echoed Janine’s sentiment, “It was a pleasure working with the team at Creative Commons. I greatly appreciated how much they know and understand their users, and it was inspiring to see how enthusiastic the team and their users are about creating a global commons! Working in a group to make a well-run, established team like theirs happy with a 4-week timeframe was an ideal learning experience for me as a designer.”
What are the next steps for the CC Search product team?
The results of this collaboration have jump-started an overhaul of the CC Search user interface, serving as a launchpad for upcoming iterative design improvements.
The outcome of this project truly spoke to the power of the cycle of knowledge creation. Each prototype was better than the last thanks to the many talented minds who, in the spirit of collaboration, brought their best ideas to the table with informed enthusiasm.
To stay up-to-date on the technical updates that we’ll be making to CC Search throughout 2020, be sure to follow Creative Commons Open Source on Twitter @cc_opensource, join #cc-usability in the Creative Commons Slack, or keep an eye on the Active Sprint and Backlog in GitHub!
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After publishing the book and distributing copies around the world, we have proudly watched as the Made with Creative Commons project continued to germinate thanks to the energy and resourcefulness of the CC community.
Just recently, members of our community across Latin America—including Gunnar Wolf, Luis Enrique Amaya González, Leo “elopio” Arias, Andrés Delgado, and Evelin “scann” Heidel—collaborated to produce a Spanish translation of the book. Marisol Simón from the Economics Research Institute in Mexico edited the translation.
Earlier this year, Hilman Fathoni, Fitri Ayu, and the rest of the CC Indonesia team translated the book into Indonesian. They were also able to hold a public event and print copies of the translated book thanks to funding from the Indonesian Creative Economy Agency.
Finally, Soohyun Pae is currently leading a translation into Korean, and Petter Reinholdtsen is undertaking a translation into Norwegian.
These efforts by you, the CC community, are a testament to the vibrancy, resourcefulness, and ingenuity of the open movement—and your commitment to growing the global commons.
We would like to say thank you to each and every person who has had a hand in carrying this work forward over the last two years, and we look forward to receiving more translations in the future!
If you’re working on a new translation of Made with Creative Commons, let us know by emailing us at info@creativecommons.org or tagging us @creativecommons on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn!
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]]>In 2016, CC released an assessment of the community in the Faces of the Commons research. The CC ecosystem has changed since then and many of those changes have been essential for the commons to reach its full potential and to grow the CC Network. In fact, the CC Network has indeed grown to over 500 members across 42 chapters.
Now that the CC Network is more established, CC wishes to make sure that you, as a member, are feeling fully supported in your work and that you have what you need to help grow the global commons. CC is interested in what it means to you to be part of CC, why you are part of the CC Network, and what you need to continue being an active member of this community.
Whether you’re new to the CC Network or a long-time contributor to Creative Commons, we value your experience and want to hear from you.
There are two ways for you to share your thoughts on the CC Global Network:
- Digital survey—This 20-30 minute survey will give us a general understanding of your experience. Take the survey now or bookmark it for later.
- One-on-one interview—You can provide in-depth feedback by signing up for a 60-90 minute online interview. Please volunteer your time, or suggest someone else, through this form and we’ll be in touch!
Both feedback methods are available between December 17 and January 15.
The one-on-one interviews will take place at a time convenient for you outside of the festive season between December 23 and January 2.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts and experiences!
Isla Haddow-Flood is an active member of the CC Global Network. We’re grateful to be working with Isla on this project as she provides her expertise in and passion for engaging with open communities.
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]]>Over the past few months, we’ve been working on CC Vocabulary, a new open source software project that provides a cohesive design system to unite the web-facing Creative Commons (CC).
Vocabulary is intended to be an extension of the CC Style Guide for the web, providing reusable components, patterns, and more. The software includes a JavaScript user interface component library (using the Vue.js framework), an interactive playground to try out various elements, and general usage guidelines.
Since 2001, CC’s web presence has grown to encompass a large assortment of tools and resources, including applications ranging from the vast CC Search to the single-page CC Chooser. We also have numerous websites for our programs, such as CC Open Source, the CC Global Summit, the CC Certificates, and the CC Global Network. There are also CC Chapter websites, a plugin for WordPress, a browser extension, and more. Due to the fact that each of these tools and websites were developed and maintained independently, typography, color palette, components, design, and experience vary wildly. In addition, important concerns, such as accessibility, slipped through the cracks.
That’s why we decided to create a design system that would help unify all of the CC websites and applications. We named it “Vocabulary,” reflecting the notion that numbered components (like words) could be strung together to form countless web sites (like sentences).
The principles of Vocabulary
- Singular
Vocabulary provides a single home for user interface (UI) components. The code for how a component looks and feels is pulled from Vocabulary instead of being reimplemented in each individual website. This ensures that common components, such as headers and footers, are identical everywhere. This makes even the most distinct websites familiar and “look CC.”
The new footer establishes and conforms to set standards.
This also ensures that discussions, features, and fixes are made in one location and reach the whole ecosystem. Pulling in the newest features in a Vocabulary-based website is only a matter of updating to the latest version of Vocabulary.
- Versatile
Vocabulary offers a large degree of variability in terms of stylistic choice, enabling applications to be aesthetically diverse without sacrificing cohesiveness and accessibility. A number of aspects of every component can be customized, leading to an exponential number of variants. Even a component as simple as a toggle offers close to 300 variants accounting for the colors, shades, and the roundness and simplicity options.
In terms of just roundness and simplicity, the toggle supports 9 variants.
- Flexible
Although centralized, Vocabulary components can be customized from site to site as per the needs of the service. This ensures that there’s always room for creative expression and personality. For example, the standard footer allows specific content in all three panes to be customized.
The footer can be customized to a fixed extent, seen here adapted for the Vocabulary homepage.
- Responsive
Vocabulary ensures that the applications adapt to the diverse range of screen sizes on the Internet, from mobile phones to flat screen TVs. All Vocabulary components are built on a self-designed five-tier responsive grid to automatically scale up and down based on the screen size.
The footer adapts to different screen sizes, seen here on a tablet.
- Vibrant
All the colors in the CC Style Guide are available in CC Vocabulary, along with lighter and darker shades to assist with building rich interfaces. Color is integral to creativity, thus every component in Vocabulary can be colored.
The primary CC site header recreated in one of Vocabulary’s other colors.
- Cohesive
The entire library of components offered by Vocabulary are designed to work in tandem with each other, allowing beautiful websites to be built with very little effort while maintaining consistency across all CC websites. In addition, Vocabulary conforms to and makes the most of the latest CSS specifications that are supported widely by web browsers.
Vocabulary components have a unifying look and feel.
- Accessible
Vocabulary incorporates UI accessibility best practices, such as contrasts, readability, and ease-of-use. Applications that use Vocabulary automatically receives these accessibility benefits as well.
Every component in Vocabulary is subjected to stringent accessibility tests.
- Translation-Friendly
Every component in Vocabulary is built so that it can be translated. It’s impossible to build a component that’s not translation-ready.
The footer comes with and enforces consistent translations, seen here for Hindi.
The translations are stored in a separate file from the code, which allows Vocabulary to offer pre-translated versions of common components and also makes contributing translations really easy, even for people without any coding experience.
Vocabulary makes adding languages as easy as adding lines to a data file.
What’s next for Vocabulary?
Vocabulary is open-source under the MIT/Expat license, with the code hosted on GitHub and a living style guide that is an extension of the CC Style Guide. We’re actively improving the project by adding new features, implementing new components, fixing bugs, etc. Work on integrating Vocabulary with existing CC sites and applications, such as CC Search, is already underway.
CC is also working with Outreachy for the December 2019 – March 2020 session to identify and implement ways to further enhance the scope of the project as well as integrate it with existing applications and websites, such as the CC Chooser and the CC Global Network. This provides interns an exciting opportunity to collaborate with a dynamic developer community working to bring impactful new features to a global audience of creatives.
We encourage you to contribute by checking out the project, giving us feedback or reporting bugs, helping us write code, or contributing translations. If you’re a developer embarking on your next web project, you can use Vocabulary to make prototyping UIs a breeze. We provide Vocabulary as a npm package as well as via CDNs. You can even integrate Vocabulary with an existing project. If you’re a designer, we could use your insights to improve our components. If you’re good with words, you could help us with writing new documentation or translating the current body of text.
It’s an exciting time for the Web, and we couldn’t be happier to have you with us as we embark on this new project. We look forward to seeing how this library powers a new era of rapid, cohesive, and accessible front-end development across the web-facing Creative Commons.
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]]>Over the next three months, these interns will work with several members of the Creative Commons’ team on three different projects related to the CC Vocabulary, the CC License Chooser, and the CC Platform Toolkit.
Meet our 2020 interns!
Ana Paula Rocha
Ana is from Brazil and will be working on the CC Platform Toolkit—a guide for developers creating platforms and tools in which it makes sense to offer CC licensing to users. She’ll use her background in advertising and interest in user-interface (UI) development to help us rethink and upgrade the guide.
Olga Bulat
Olga is originally from Kazakhstan but is currently living in Turkey. She will be working on the CC License Chooser, applying her experience as an open source, freelance developer to create a new version with a greater focus on helping people learn more about CC licenses.
Chidiebere Onyegbuchulem
Chidiebere is from Nigeria and will apply his skills as a front-end developer, network engineer, and mobile web specialist to improve the recently developed CC Vocabulary, an open source software project that provides a cohesive web-design system for CC.
We’re very excited to be working with these talented individuals and can’t wait to get started!
Want more technical updates? Including the latest updates on these projects? Follow the Creative Commons Open Source blog and @cc_opensource on Twitter! You can also join #cc-dev-license-chooser, #cc-outreachy-platform-toolkit, and #cc-dev-vocabulary on our community Slack.
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]]>WordPress is one of the top platforms for creators on the internet who both produce and consume CC-licensed content. Therefore, it’s important that we are able to integrate with WordPress as seamlessly as possible in order to promote the use of CC licenses. With that in mind, we recently added new features to our WordPress plugin—which are now live!
This plugin is an attribution and marking tool. It has multiple features that allow users to publish their content on WordPress under a CC license.
Previously, WordPress blog/site owners needed to manually type out instructions specifying to their readers what content they can share and how. But this plugin makes it simple to specify which CC license a single page, post, or even a whole site/network is published under.
Installation
You can install this plugin from the WordPress.org plugin marketplace. Once installed and activated, you can change the license settings from your WordPress (WP) dashboard.
The latest features added to our plugin:
- Setting a default site license
The plugin allows a default site-wide license to avoid any confusion regarding the attribution of content. After activating the plugin, head to Settings > Creative Commons to set up the default license or to change it to one of the other CC licenses.
There are multiple options available for the license. You can add:
- Additional attribution text for a custom note
- Title and Title URL
- Author and Author URL
- Display options
This default license can be displayed either as a widget or in the footer. The widget can be pulled to any area and will display the default license.
- License blocks
Our plugin also supports WordPress’ new editor, Gutenberg. The plugin adds blocks for each CC license. You will find these blocks under a separate category.
These blocks can be used to quickly mark or attribute any page/post/image or other media. Choosing a block will provide you with fields to add details.
In the image below, you can see how the block will look in a post.
At a glance, with the WP CC Plugin you can:
- License your site with a default license
- Display the default license in the footer or as a widget
- Display a license for the entire site, or for individual posts and pages
- License your WordPress Network (WordPress Multisite install)
- License some posts, pages, or images differently from your default license
- License posts and pages by simply including CC Gutenberg blocks for each license required
What’s next for the CC WordPress plugin?
The CC WordPress plugin is an open source project aimed at simplifying the process of applying CC licenses to content on WordPress. A few upcoming milestones include internationalization, as well as the integration of CC Search and CC Vocabulary (coming soon).
Finally, this project is community-focused and we want your help. Do you have comments or suggestions? Maybe a few ideas for new features or thoughts about improving the user experience? Check out the plugin’s GitHub Repository and Contribution Guidelines to get started. You can also join the discussion on the #cc-dev-wordpress Slack channel or the GitHub repository.
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Cover page of the CC Style Guide 2019. “Young woman waiting in doctor’s office,” part of SELF Magazine’s “Vaccines Save Lives” campaign. Photographer: Heather Hazzan; Wardrobe: Ronald Burton; Props: Campbell Pearson; Hair: Hide Suzuki; Makeup: Deanna Melluso at See Management. Shot on location at One Medical. CC BY
Crafting and maintaining a consistent style is essential to establishing and promoting an organization’s brand.
As with any organization, Creative Commons’ (CC) brand should help CC build trust with its stakeholders and the broader open movement, as well as maintain and grow CC’s reputation, legitimacy, and leadership in the Global Commons.
With that in mind, we decided to create a CC style guide for CC staff, affiliates, community members, and CC Chapters to use as a reference when creating content specifically for CC as an organization.
In this guide, you’ll find information on CC’s:
- Mission and brand tagline
- Mood board
- Brand identity—including information on our logos, fonts, color palette, and visual elements
- Publications style—including guidance on tone, specific language, abbreviations, acronyms, titles and capitalization, numbers, spelling, punctuation, referencing and licensing, and writing tips
Although important, this style guide shouldn’t feel restrictive or diminish creative expression.
Instead, it should serve as a useful and inspirational guide for anyone creating content specifically for CC as an organization, such as CC staff and members of the CC Global Network. This style guide is also not final and/or comprehensive, it’s the beginning of a longer process to flesh out, define, and standardize CC’s style in order to portray our brand more clearly and consistently.
Remix this guide for your own use!
We also decided to publish this guide under CC BY and share it externally so that it can be adapted by anyone for their own personal and/or organizational branding needs. If you’re just starting out as a freelance photographer or emerging as an industry thought leader, for example, we encourage you to adapt and remix this guide to build your own!
We’d love to know how you use this style guide, so tag us on social media when you do!
Download the CC style guide here.
Please note: Our plan is to revisit this guide annually, with our first review taking place in early 2020. Be sure to send us your suggestions for potential changes and/or additions before December 31, 2019 by adding comments to this online document. (Although this is our preferred method for feedback, we will also accept direct emails to victoria@creativecommons.org.)
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]]>In 2002, just one year after the founding of CC, designer Ryan Junell accomplished the difficult task of designing a logo that is distinctive, yet teaches through its design. Over time, the CC logo has become a recognizable symbol of the open movement, even accepted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York as a permanent addition in 2015.
Once the logo was designed, however, it was difficult for Junell to decide on the font for the rest of the CC mark. Generally speaking, designers make their choice on typography based on readability and distinctiveness. Sans typographies, for instance, are considered a standard basic element because of their clean shape and lack of ornaments, keeping the writing structure intact. That allows the text to be combined with other visual elements without competing on information hierarchy or expression. In a way, sans typographies provide both a neutral and an eloquent voice. Junell probably had that in mind when he selected the elegant Akzidenz Grotesk font (designed in 1898!) for the CC logo.
Since 2002, CC licenses—and the CC logo—have been used to share and make freely available billions of works in the Global Commons. CC has also grown to include an active Global Network, consisting of 41 local CC Chapters and over 450 members who use the logo to support their work.
Due to this growth, we realized in 2018 that the original Akzidenz Grotesk font was not ideal for members of our Global Network to adapt and remix. We wondered: Can we develop an open-licensed Creative Commons font? Thanks to the kind support of a CC member, we did.
Today, we’re happy to introduce—and make freely available—CC Accidenz Commons.
CC Accidenz Commons was designed by Archetypo, a research and type design collective based in Germany and Chile. Archetypo designed the font under these basic premises:
- To establish a quality framework for a typeface based on the original design of Akzidenz Grotesk
- To improve the original canonic design that precedes Helvetica and optimize it for better Webfont visualizing
- To design a versatile text weight to be used in CC’s identity and logo, as well as in headlines, presentations, and other text applications
“We wanted a new Akzidenz version with less contemporary expression,” Archetypo explained, “[while] trying to remain close with the original metal carving of the font.” This meant:
- Re-drawing the original Akzidenz Grotesk font, using different wide and long proportions. In the process, we considered the use of low caps and relative weight for better visualization in text applications.
- Including small openings in the blank space of a sign where elements connect, such as on top of the “n” and at the bottom of the “a.”
- Re-drawing many of the curves, unifying lower and upper cases.
The end result was CC Accidenz Commons: a contemporary, versatile, and neutral version of Akzidenz Grotesk. The font is licensed CC BY-SA, so you can download it today and start remixing!
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