[OpenFontLibrary] Relaunch Status?

[James Weiner]

I have to say I really like Robert's logo! despite the angle of the F  
feeling a little odd at first I think it works for me because it's  
different and interesting.

I think I'm happy with it although maybe seeing some other examples of  
perhaps more exciting font usage would be good to see.

I'm not sure the logo needs to put across ALL the different things  
OFLB is trying to do - I think that logo is as effective as the OFLB  
name.

Ben and others - your thoughts?

James

On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:36, Robert Martinez wrote:

> Dave Crossland wrote:
>> 2009/1/16 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
>>
>>> I made this for the last contest (but wayyy too late), and after  
>>> browsing
>>> the amazing new page I fiddled around again:
>>>
>>> http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary.png
>>>
>>
>> I like it although the font used in the F isn't quite right, the
>> perspective transformation doesn't do it well... but I think it could
>> work nicely if the character in the middle was different, such as an
>> extended latin :-)
>>
>> James and Ben Weiner did the graphic redesign, so I hope they can  
>> comment.
>>
>>
> I'm very interested in what they think, too.
> Their look is the key - the logo should fit.
>
> Concerning the choice for the "f" -  it represents the "f"ont, where  
> the  book beneath it is the "open library" part of openfontlibrary.
> because of that I would prefer not to use a more sexy but unrelated  
> charater.
>
> The transformation is a 30° skew, exactly like the book. That indeed  
> gives the letter more "surface" than an actual rotation in a  
> isometric space.
> So I tried bold semi-condensed, wich works much better :)
>
> http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary2.png
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