[flashrom] [coreboot] New flashrom logo - fonts

Berth-Olof Bergman bo.bergman at winzenttech.com
Fri Mar 13 15:01:26 CET 2015


How about making flashrom available for Bay Trail architecture?

> 13 mar 2015 kl. 14:36 skrev Stefan Tauner <stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at>:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 08:37:49 +0100
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 11.03.2015 14:30, Stefan Tauner wrote:
>>> This will be the last poll that evaluates specific features of the
>>> logo. There may be another one to determine the final design.
>>> 
>>> I have selected a variety of fonts that I think are OK for a logo in
>>> terms of thickness and "playfulness". Not all of them are free but I
>>> have included them in the poll anyway to get a better feeling about
>>> general preferences.
>>> 
>>> http://epicdecide.com/ad3645e6-9a70-4cce-bd05-bf0e66e668e9/
>> 
>> This is the first poll where I think that all of the options suck.
>> Traditionally, flashrom is written all lowercase and I would love to
>> keep it that way. However, the letter "f" in the logos sucks in all
>> lowercase variants because of a IMHO way too high lateral stroke. That's
>> something I didn't like about the intermediate official logo, by the way.
>> 
>> Does anyone know a font where the lowercase "f" doesn't look like a
>> design error?
> 
> Well, that's more than subjective because the stroke is in the upper
> third or even quarter in almost all common fonts. And those where it is
> lower are usually completely unusable for a logo (extremely squiggly).
> 
> However, I am aware of one font, that might work... I have used it for
> a caps lettering already: Chaerilidae
> I have attached a lower-case variant with that font. What do you think
> about it?
> 
> Other suggestions for fonts are welcome...
> -- 
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
> <chaerilidae-lower-carldani.png>-- 
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