[advocacy] Oh, no, logos again.

[Miguel A. Arévalo]

Ogg letter are actually drawed not from any font (that's why they are so 
  ugly).

Vorbis, Theora, etc labels use a Bitstream Vera Sans (they seem to be 
license-free, or at least DFSG in order to be in Debian Main).

;-)

Daniel James wrote:
>>They can be printed easely on two colors
> 
> 
> This is actually really important - one colour, even. If you compare 
> the old and new Apple logos, or the those of the BBC, you'll see that 
> both organisations have moved from multicoloured to monochrome logos. 
> It saves a ton of money when it comes to printing. In fact, the old 
> Apple logo was held up as an example of 'how to get it wrong' by 
> print buyers.
> 
> As much as I like the fish, it doesn't actually tell you anything you 
> need to know about Ogg, and the thor/hammer/snake logo is way too 
> cryptic.  Check out a typical DVD player (seemingly the convergence 
> device for digital formats now) and you'll see a dozen logos 
> indicating support for various formats, printed in black and no more 
> than a few millimetres high. If you want to see Ogg on there, it will 
> have to be a similar, simple logo. 
> 
> As for Miguel's designs, I think they show promise. One thing I have 
> to say though, is that some people will read 099 instead of ogg - it 
> should be a more obvious 'g'. Maybe if a free software font could be 
> used throughout, that would avoid sublicensing problems too.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Daniel
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