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. > -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
