On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 14:50 +0200, Martin Sourada wrote:
> personally I don't consider this part necessary. Usually it
is desirable
> not to mess with the logotype (dilluting it by creating subbrands,
> etc...). I don't see an immediate need to have the actual logotype set
> in a Freely licensed font.
>
I don't think we want to mess with the logotype, but we'd like it to use
font we can use without issues _anywhere else_, so ideally we'd switch
the fedora logotype font to something FLOSS with good latin glyphs
coverage. What we're doing now is matching the logotype font with some
other that looks similar, which is suboptimal...
Btw. welcome to Red Hat and Fedora :)
Thanks Martin!
I very much see the need to have a headline Fedora font which can be
freely distributed and improved. In fact, this need drove me to create
5th Leg* for openSUSE to replace the awesome Cholla which sadly didn't
have a very permissive license.
But just like openSUSE didn't have to have the actual logo recreated
based on the new type, I don't think Fedora needs to do so either.
I really hope Johan will be willing to relicense Comfortaa, it would be
quite a time saver. I would love to work on making this work better as a
screen font as well (in terms of weight/spacing, not hinting). Fedora
would benefit for having this used as a default WM font.
*
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=555
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