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.
>



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