I don’t know why, but Comic Sans really gets typography people’s backs up. It’s generally associated with street-side lemonade stands rather than professional work. Might be worth considering.
Denis Anson On Jun 10, 2014, at 5:34 PM, Vass, Joanna <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Thanks for the responses everyone! Johnny, yes I think that was one of the reasons we used Comic Sans. The other reason I think was because of browser support for custom fonts. But maybe we could address that by using Comic Sans as the fallback font family? Justin, I attached a version with the ' * ‘ moved to the side instead - to be consistent with the arrangement with the floe logo. I agree with Anastasia that we need something to differentiate our logo with other projects with the same name. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks! Joanna <fluid-floe-logos.jpg> On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Johnny Taylor <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I think so. But can anyone remind me of why you used comic sans in the first place? There are legitimate reasons. With the “a” character specifically, if I recall correctly. And how it doesn’t have the ascender protruding for the top of the character, right? What does having the stroke (sorry for the sloppy type descriptions, I’ve got a lot on my mind today) provide a reader? Does it help with dyslexia specifically? And by using open dyslexic you could potentially address this issue as well as address others, at the same time? Seems more than reasonable to me. Johnny http://abledaccess.com<http://abledaccess.com/> http://abledaccess.com/twitter ... and the solution is inclusion On Jun 6, 2014, at 2:10 PM, Colin Clark <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Andrés is on to something, though not necessarily with the logo itself. We should really replace the Comic Sans option in UI Options with the open dyslexia font. What do you all think? Seems like it would be useful. Colin On Jun 6, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Jess Mitchell <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Andrés, Thanks for passing this along. I can imagine this font being an ‘option’ in a preference within GPII, but for a logo it might be impractical to choose a font that accommodates a particular population. Our approach has been to find something that is universally understandable and readable or recognizable — these seem the goals for a logo. Best, Jess On Jun 6, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Andrés Iglesias Pérez <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Joanna, Another open source font (cc-a 3.0) with a deeper touch into accessibility would be opendyslexic http://opendyslexic.org/ Examples of "fluid" and "floe" in http://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font?text=fluid+floe Open-Dyslexic Font | dafont.com<http://dafont.com/> Open-Dyslexic Font | dafont.com<http://dafont.com/> Leer más... The "AltaBold" is my personal favourite :3 though I understand it can be a major breakage of the whole UI of the web :- / Kind Regards, -- Andrés Iglesias Pérez || Andres Iglesias-Perez Researcher @ R&D Department, Fundosa Technosite. C/ Albacete, nº 3. Edificio Mizar, 2ª planta. 28027, Madrid. Tel: 91 121 03 30 e-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> De: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> en nombre de Vass, Joanna <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Enviado: viernes, 6 de junio de 2014 00:05 Para: Fluid-Work Mailing List Work Asunto: Proposal for small change to Fluid and Floe logos Hi All, Right now the Fluid and Floe logos are using Helvetica Neue, and I want to suggest we switch to an open-source licensed typeface. Attached is a version using Droid Sans an Apache 2.0 licensed typeface - it has similar proportions and some nice slant details. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks! Joanna <fluid-floe-logos.jpg> _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work _______________________________________________________ fluid-work mailing list - [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://lists.idrc.ocad.ca/mailman/listinfo/fluid-work
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