The handbook “Make it Yourself” provides instructions for building more than 1,000 projects. It follows the principles of open source: the designs are shared so people can learn from them and develop them further. All of this is released under a public-domain license that promotes free access and sharing. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.
The development team at MacPaw, in collaboration with the design studio AlphaBravo, has released the typeface Fixel Font under the open Open Font License. On this project, we had the privilege of collaborating with AlphaBravo and its founder, Kyrylo Tkachev. AlphaBravo is a renowned type studio, recognized for shaping the Ukrainian typographic landscape and promoting a distinct Ukrainian voice through its fonts. The design of Fixel was led by Marcela Mozhina and Serhiy Makarenko. ...
From the outside, open source often looks like a technical concept. A license here, a repository there, a few lines of source code, publicly visible. But look closer and you’ll see: it’s about much more than software. It’s about freedom. And about sharing. I’m not a developer in the classic sense. I’ve never overseen major projects or designed complex software architectures. But over the years I’ve written many small scripts, sometimes in PHP, sometimes in Python or Perl. I’ve built websites with WordPress, written HTML and CSS, tried things out and discarded them. Never aiming for perfection, but always wanting to create something that works — for me, and sometimes for others. ...