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[Jon Phillips]

I think the F is most recognizable. Its just the truth on fonts. Even
in China this is recognizable. There is always going to be a problem
with a character, even if one picks a number or a symbol. Agree, looks
good, lock and load.

Jon

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> sorry for the delay. Along with some other issues I had to recover my
> webpage.
> I think the input from the mailing list was productive input so far.
> But the latest  idea to use a non-latin character turns out to be more
> problematic.
>
> I tried to fit many non-latin characters to the book, but all characters
> that are too big in width just don't fit in well. Nor do almost any other
> characters with a round bottom fit into the groove of the book. This narrows
> things down quite a bit.
> But that isn't my main reason for staying with the "f".
>
> A non-latin character certainly has the charme of a certain place in the
> world where it is used. But in the end it can and will be interpreted in a
> way that excludes many people. An "ö" would exclude non-german speaking
> people, the  "ñ"  would exclude non-spanish speaking people and so on...
>
> Then there is the problem that a too venturesome character runs the risk of
> not being noticed as such. If there is only one strange character, people
> might just think it is a broken "W " or a bent "P" or whatever just to be
> "unique!", or it might even be seen as some abstract form like the
> nike-hook.
>
> Reflecting on all of those issues - and the fact that the "f" fits nicely to
> the book and to the meaning "f"ont (and the open library beneath it), I
> would prefer to stay with the standard f that everybody knows and uses.
>
> non-messed up links to the latest mockup:
> http://mray.de/openfontlibrary4.png
>
> ..and the SVG:
> http://mray.de/OFL-logo.svg
>
>
> greetings from Germany,
> Robert
>



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