+1 On 9/19/05, Jeremy Hogan <jeremy.hogan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There are two ways to look at the font issue. One is that when used > (and controlled) as part of a protected trademark or logotype, you > don't necessarily want to make it that easy for folks to make > derivatives. What if they took the font and made "figaro", in the same > blue? Trademarks have to be protectable to be protected. You can't > tell someone to stop using a free font in their logo. > > Second way to look at it is, maybe Red Hat does open this font, and/or > make it part of the default font set in Fedora, with wording as to how > it may be used in conjunction with a fedora related project logo, or > otherwise used to support fedora related marketing. > > IMHO, since we are limited in what we can use to make people instantly > think of fedora when they see the font or the logotype by itself (e.g. > no visual fedora, just the name), we should consider/allow the > possibility that this font will only be used in an official capacity, > and that perhaps a family of font that supports it, or compliments it > very well, could be released for all the other legit marketing uses. > > --jeremy > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list > -- Visit FUDCon London 2005 http://fedoraproject.org/fudcon FUDCon: Fedora Users and Developers Conference -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
