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.

Also, from an LWN comment:

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

> http://sansoxygen.com/donate/

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.

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