linuxaudio.org

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:30:53PM +0100, Chris Cannam wrote:
> http://affenbande.org/~thorwil/wordpress/2006/04/25/linuxaudioorg-banner...

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> 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.
> http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Gentium
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

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> good printed and at display sizes:

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> http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html

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> 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

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> 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