[Foundation-l] Logotype font, t-shirts, Wikimedia Sweden

[GerardM]

Hoi,
Why ? Now the only thing that is relevant is that we support all characters.
That is it. When necessary, I would welcome us to become the 500 pound
gorilla moving font  and character support for all languages.. This is a
worthwhile and doable proposition.

When Microsoft clients can easily get particular fonts, that is fine. We do
not have only Microsoft clients so that is not much of an argument,
Thanks.
     GerardM

On 7/27/07, Kyungjun Lee <kjoonlee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/26/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > Given that the Wikimedia Foundation has so many people advocating a Free
> > Culture, I would say that retaining a font that has such onerous
> > restrictions for our own logo is really a bit much. There are good
> quality
> > fonts available and, when these do not exist, I would even favour us to
> > partner with organisations that provide Free licenses like SIL and make
> > fonts available so that our content can be experienced in the way it is
> > intended, free and unencumbered.
> >
> > I expect that all those who are against the use of Flash, will be in
> favour
> > of us not using fonts that make our content opaque in the same way that
> > Flash does.
>
> I think I was a bit rash, though, since the Gill Sans font, which is
> used in the Wikimedia Foundation logo, also has restrictive terms of
> use by default:
>
> http://www.fonts.com/Legal/MI-EULA.htm
>
> However, Gill Sans MT is easily obtainable with various Microsoft
> software, kind of like how Hoefler Text is available on Mac OS.
>
> ---
>
> I still think switching to Junicode would be a good idea, though,
> since Junicode is available under the GPL, the developer is active and
> responsive, it's stylistically (to my untrained eyes, at least) very
> similar to Hoefler Text and it has nice support for various European
> characters, even Greek.
>
> --Kjoonlee
>
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