Thanks for the information. Interesting that we can get around the copyright issue by converting the font to an outline. I wouldn't have thought that you could get around copyright so easily. All that said, I have a few comments:
1. I like Ben's modification of LuzSans much more than Futura. I like the "point" in the > symbol. 2. I do not want a "rasetirzed" font. I really really don't. I want SVG, so it will scale. 3. I still want to use a font that I can download for free, which AFAIK rules out Futura. 4. I still have a somewhat strong preference for a truly open font because in the future we might want to write stuff (e.g. a pamphlet) and might want to use the same font as the logo. 5. I also prefer the extra margin of comfort from using a truly open font (we are not lawyers). If we have concerns about whether LuzSans is free, I would lean toward either Shado or Sawasdee. I'll go experiment with those and try to recreate Ben's ideas with them. Daniel. On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:52 PM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
