Re: [Xiph-Advocacy] Spread Open Media fonts

"Richard Spindler" <[email protected]> Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:56:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.advocacy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the point of "Spreading Open Fonts",
as far as I know, the matter of Open Video and Audio Codecs is, that
those that are "Not Open" are threatend by Patent-Suits. I fail to see
how that situation applies to Fonts?

Cheers
-Richard

2008/1/20, Cory K. <[email protected]>:
> What fonts are used it the top banner of the page and 1st couple of the
> small ones on the "Banners" page?
>
> The small ones look like Helvetica but I don't know about the one on the
> top banner.
>
> Is there a "official" font to be used? Like in my email about Xiph
> artwork if the font is not a free one it makes it hard to have any kind
> of user contribution to a project art-wise when you don't have rights to
> use the font. People get pissy about substitutions. ;)
>
> So a list of acceptable fonts to keep in-line with the official
> look&feel for S.O.M. would be great.

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