For completeness, I've added examples of three more free fonts, all of them good. Point being, we don't have to get stuck with a proprietary font.
Personally, I think I'll switch all my logos to the "Shado" font. Daniel. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > Whoo hoo! > > I think I found a great free alternative to the Futura font used by > Kishor and Christian: > > Luz Sans font, also known as HP New Futura, is the corporate typeface > of Hewlett-Packard. It is a professional font (duh) that highly > resembles Futura. You can see what it looks like here: > > http://pdl.perl.org/images/fonts.png > > Here you can see the original "pdl>" from P.Kishor and below it my > rendition using LuzSans. Personally I like the ">" from LuzSans > better. Except for Kishor's logo, all the text on this page is in > LuzSans, so you can get a feel for what the font is like. > > As for the license, I've read that it is in the public domain, but I'd > like to confirm that. What I can say for sure is that Canonical > distributes it as a free font, and they packaged it themselves: > > http://netbook-remix.archive.canonical.com/updates/pool/public/l/luzsans-ttf/ > > What do you think? > > Daniel. > -- > Intolerant people should be shot. > -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
