On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > :-( Futura and Ilustrator are both proprietary. > ..
My personal opinion is that once the community agrees on a logo, and if Karl blesses it (or vetoes it into oblivion), we should look for a real logo designer with fondness toward PDL/Perl/open source who might be willing to do a real logo design gratis. Then that logo designer can take the chosen logo as the basis and convert it into a real logo. At that point, care would have to be taken to exclude any proprietary fonts, trademarks, etc. in the the logo. There are many public domain (PD) alternatives out there for the fonts (as I noted in my email earlier, I am using Gentium for a couple of logos that I made -- Gentium is not PD, but does exist under an Open Font License). For my monospace font, I ended up with Andale, which I am sure is owned by Apple, but there are many monospace alternatives. I personally love Anonymous Pro, by the Simonson foundry, also under OFL, and I use that for all my programming work). Of course, a PD font/artwork would be the best, as OFL may or may not be suitable. I haven't studies OFL in detail to make a judgment. I love Christian's prompt-ization of my K2. Yes, unfortunately, I started with Futura Medium, but I kerned it tighter, exactly what he has done. This is where, once decided, the logo could be hand-drawn, or a PD font could be used. Using a PD geometric font (as opposed to a bitmap font) would be great because then the logo could be scaled infinitely, and also be created/recreated easily. Puneet. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
