From 615bc76198363844d0ce11006a61165fe66861e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Crossland Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 22:33:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md Add a history section --- README.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c2f7d0c73..14bd94a8d 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -20,7 +20,12 @@ See [install.txt](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/master/Doc/install.tx See [documentation.html](https://github.com/behdad/fonttools/blob/master/Doc/documentation.html) in the "Doc" subdirectory for TTX usage instructions and information about the TTX file format. +#### History + +The fontTools project was started by Just van Rossum in 1999, and was maintained as an open source project at . In 2008, Paul Wise (pabs3) began helping Just with stability maintenance. In 2013 Behdad Esfahbod began a friendly fork, thoroughly reviewing the codebase and making changes at to add new features and support for new font formats. + ### Community + * https://groups.google.com/d/forum/fonttools ### License