On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, 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:
I would be *very* surprised if a "corporate" font would be any kind of free. The copyright information on LuzSans is very clearly "08/03 Luz, HP New Futura The Hoefler Type Foundry, 1998-2003." On a Mac, I can get the copyright information by right-clicking on the font file and clicking "Get Info." H&FJ themselves have no information on LuzSans on their web site (http://typography.com), which is understandable as it is a custom designed, bespoke font for a client. No one else is supposed to use it except for Hewlett-Packard. Unless we have a clear indication from either H&FJ or (more likely) HP, I personally would not use LuzSans. There is, however, a simple way out. See the following question on H&FJ web site (http://typography.com/ask/faq.php#Ft_10) -- ---- I've designed a logo for my client using one of your fonts. Now what? The best thing to do is to supply your client with a logo that has been converted to outlines. This saves them from needing to license and install the fonts — and it also guarantees that the logo will always appear exactly the way you designed it. ---- What this means is that anyone of us with the license to use Futura (which means, almost anyone with Futura installed on their computer -- it comes installed on a Mac, I don't know about Windows) can make the logo, then convert it into an outline (which is what is done when you save the logo as an image, thereby rasterizing it, or you might be able to do it by vectorizing it in Inkscape). At that point, the image of the logo is devoid of the font information, and hence, should be ok. > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
