Font suggestion for a title

[Karsten Wade]

Now with the correct recipient address ...

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From: Karsten Wade [[e-mail]]
Received: Wednesday, 27 Apr 2011, 10:04am
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Subject: Font suggestion for a title

[Jef van Schendel]

011/4/27 Karsten Wade :
> Now with the correct recipient address ...

Hi Karsten,

Do you have a sample image that contains the Interstate font, so we
know what it looks like? I'm assuming that it's this one [1], which is
similar to (but not exactly like) the one used on opensource.com [2].

If you're looking for something similar to those (light, round, open,
sans-serif) you could have a look at Raleway (League of Movable
Type[3], Google Web Fonts[4]). It's apparently licensed under the "SIL
Open Font License", will that do?

I'm no typeface expert, but I try. Hope this helps. :)

Jef

PS Shame you couldn't make it to FUDCon Tempe, I would've liked to meet you!

[1] http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/fontbureau/interstate/
[2] http://opensource.com/
[3] http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/14-raleway
[4] http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Raleway

[Jef van Schendel]

2011/4/27 Jef van Schendel :
> If you're looking for something similar to those (light, round, open,
> sans-serif) you could have a look at Raleway (League of Movable
> Type[3], Google Web Fonts[4]). It's apparently licensed under the "SIL
> Open Font License", will that do?

I couldn't resist messing around with the source files for a bit:

http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/tosw/tosw_wikimedia_header_1941x220.png
http://schendje.fedorapeople.org/tosw/tosw_wikimedia_header_1941x220.svg

It's very light so I made a dropshadow won't work very well. Instead I
used one of the greens in the image and made it a bit darker.

Jef.