[Marketing] Font official logo

Steven M. Ottens steven at minst.net
Mon Dec 12 06:16:12 EST 2011


I've added it to the wiki, including the links with more info.

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Op 12/10/2011 14:00, Jody Garnett schreef:
> 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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