Meeting minutes - 16/09/2005

[Ovidiu Lixandru]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

> This is true, but also a lot of GPL projects are changing the fonts used 
>  in the logo from propietary one to a free one at the request of the 
> community. For example such a change is expected at OpenOffice.org.

This is fine, as long as the only argument is not "hey, it's 
commercial!". Open-source does not mean freeware, even though most 
people make this mistake. The hired/designated designer paid for the 
font, does his job and delivers the product.

> Regarding your phpBB example, look at 
> http://www.phpbb.com/images/pic-home2.jpg
> The font used for "creating communities" is probably Arial Bold Italic 
> but can be easily replaced with Bitstream Vera Sans Bold Italic.

Nope, it's Tripex (or Triplex, I've found the font using both of the 
names) and it's commercial. Take a look here:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/emigre/triplex/

> The quality of the logo and the font used for the wordmark are 
> completely orthogonal.

You could say the same thing about open-source and commercialware, at a 
first glance.

-- 
Ovidiu Lixandru
linux360
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