[Marketing] Font of OSGeo Logo

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Jun 14 15:18:03 EDT 2010


On 06/14/2010 12:20 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote:
> El 14/06/10 02:39, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) escribió:
>> I have all your answers :)  Good news: I have the font and you might find it in the marketing svn too, it's call The Sans, I think.  Bad news: it's proprietary and cannot be freely distributed, but if you need it let's talk.  The designers were keen to meet my open standards desirws, but this one slipped by us.
> 
>> Hope that helps!  
> 
> It helps a lot, thanks Tyler
> 
> On a second review I've found the v2 of the branding guide[1] and it
> points to the correct font so sorry for the noise. We're going to need
> it sparsely to produce the OSGeo-es logo and probably to produce some
> marketing materials (flyers, a second version of our poster[2], etc.).
> 
> So if we need to use this font in new texts, how should I proceed? May
> I ask you offlist to produce the svg objects of the glyphs or you can
> send us the font to use it at our own?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/guidelines/v2/
> [2] http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/marketing/posters/5thgvsigconf/
> 

I'm not sure you'll need the font that OSGeo is written in that often.
If you notice on all the examples for Projects, etc the text is blue is
a different font. It's that 2nd font which I think we'll need to
standardize more and ensure everyone has access to.

Thanks,
Alex


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