On 9/21/05, Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > That's just not the case. There's a reason Ariel has very slight > differences from Helvetica, and it's not that MS didn't think Helvetica > looked right. It's also not that they couldn't figure out how to copy > it. > > > Taking a copyright-protected font for the artwork will not conflict > > the open source values of Fedora. > > I think it's reasonable to use a copyrighted font, yes. I don't.. but beyond that, do we really want that font? I showed the proposed fedora logo to three folks in my little local fedora-using community, and all three of them made a negative comment about the font, and I was specifically told that the one used on the fedora desktop logo looked nicer. This surprised me somewhat, because I hadn't even noticed the font, ... I was too busy trying to come up with an explanation of why I felt the bubble shape felt wrong. In general I don't know what we're saying about the usefulness of the "infinite freedom" desktop if you can't even reproduce its logo with a free font. :) Since the characters can just be distributed as paths, perhaps it's not a big issue, but I'd presume that it may be desirable to have the sub-projects text in the same typeface, so the use of a non-free font might even present practical issues. -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
