Re: GNOME Logo & Typeface

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 21:47 +0200, David Neary wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Apr 22, 2005, at 1:37 AM, J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote:
> > David Neary wrote:
> > > The font is Trebuchet MS, ironically enough.
> >
> > It's been almost two years exactly since the negotiations to get a 
> > font that everyone can share and build on -- the Bitstream Vera fonts. 
> > http://www.gnome.org/fonts/ says the last revision of something in 
> > regard to that page was on April 16, 2003.
> 
> It seems that the GNOME trademark includes the foot, and the text GNOME 
> in that typeface. I am unsure what the implications of changing the 
> trademark are now. I imagine, given the amount of time we have spent on 
> things like that in the past couple of years, that the effort would be 
> considerable.
> 
> > Trebuchet MS is only available at zero cost, it would not qualify as 
> > free software.  This alone should have disqualified its use to 
> > represent an official GNU Project work.
> 
> The idea of a font is that it won't change over time. I don't know the 
> terms of distribution of Trebuchet, though.

However, there's no harm in someone (anybody) mocking up an improvement,
and no chance of changing it if they don't. Logos can change gradually.

It's not a big priority though, unless a legal expert persuades us that
it should be.

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Murray Cumming
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