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News · Type · June 4th, 2006 ·

Discovering that there are so little free fonts* available, keeps surprising us. But did you know that even the logo for Debian, the version of Linux that amongst others Ubuntu is based on, was done in a proprietary font (Poppl Laudatio Condensed)?

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* There is a lot of Freeware around, but hardly any fonts explicitly allow for re-modification or derivative works.

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  • 1. dave

    Feb 23, 2007 at 1:28 am

    Even more amusing is that the FSF logo is set in Trebuchet – a *Microsoft* font!