Updated: Tweaked font from Benjamin based on LuzSans. The p and d
overlap, symbolizing the "infinity" symbol, and the > sign lines up
with the bottom of the letters (plus another small tweak).

http://pdl.perl.org/images/fonts.png

The tweaked fonts can be read by any SVG-aware program such as
Illustrator or Inkscape.

Daniel.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
>



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