26 Apr
2006
26 Apr
'06
1:27 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
http://affenbande.org/~thorwil/wordpress/2006/04/25/linuxaudioorg-banner-3/
Given the general focus on Free Software, why not use a Free Font?
Like this elegant design, not too serify for display use, which our text
looks pretty good in:
Both fonts used are free. One is Blue Highway, the other URW Nimbus.
It's very limiting, though. There are few fonts licensed in a free/
open-spource friendly manner. Most freeware fonts are a joke.
I'm currently considering to edit the letters much more.
This is clearly a font for continuous text. Even subtle serifs make
for an antiquely look when used for headlines / logos, imho.
Or Raph Levien's Inconsolata, a fixed-width font
that looks remarkably
good printed and at display sizes:
http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
That one probably wouldn't go with the tall, thin penguin though.
Right. Fixed width is rather ... brute, anyway.
FWIW I'm not particularly keen on any of the
posted suggestions. The
Interstate "g" is indeed gimmicky, but the modified version looks
childlike and unbalanced. And I can't stand the Arial "a" or, well,
pretty much anything else about Arial (or whatever Arialalike that is).
Well, the "a" is indeed a bit weak. But it's a way more robust design than
the "a" of Blue Highway (or many other freeware fonts).
This happens to be only the sans-serif font I found in a condensed version
with reasonable quality.
And condensed (narrow width) is my choice, because it works better with
the tall penguin and because the text is rather long.
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Thorsten