[Marketing] Font official logo

Jody Garnett jody.garnett at gmail.com
Sat Dec 10 08:00:40 EST 2011


Do you mind adding that to the wiki somewhere; so we don't have to figure it out again :-) 

And thanks for the research. 
-- 
Jody Garnett


On Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 11:29 PM, Steven M. Ottens wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks for the help, I've found the correct fonts; they are both not free(!).
> 'OSGeo' is done in Trebuchet MS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet_MS - comes with Windows and OS X)
> 'Your Open Source Compass' is done in TheSans Plain Italic (http://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/thesans)
>  The fonts.zip contains TheSans.ttf which is both the wrong type face and most likely illegal to redistribute.
> 
> Since the .svg and the .ai are both providing the text converted to paths they are in the clear.
> 
> regards,
> Steven
> 
> Op 12/7/2011 13:40, Jody Garnett schreef: 
> > The logo guidelines did indicate what font was used; along with the colours used. I cannot remember off the top of my head. 
> > 
> > The only font I could not match was the strange one used in the handout for some of the headings on the black background. 
> > 
> > Some of my old research is here: 
> > - http://how2map.blogspot.com/2009/05/osgeo-branding.html
> > 
> > It indicated that the font is "Bitstream Vera Sans" which is available free to download. -- 
> > Jody Garnett
> > 
> > 
> > On Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 9:49 PM, Steven M. Ottens wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I'm working on the logo for the emerging Dutch chapter and was wondering 
> > > which font is used for the OSGeo logo.
> > > I checked the fonts.zip found in 
> > > http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/marketing/logo but those are not 
> > > the correct fonts, nor are they in the Official Logo.ai or Official Logo.svg
> > > 
> > > Does anyone know where I can find the correct font? 
> > > 
> > > Kind regards, 
> > > Steven
> > > 
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