[ubuntu-uk] loco logo

[Liam Proven]

On 3 July 2010 16:28, Alan Bell <alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
> On 03/07/10 14:50, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 2 July 2010 17:30, Alan Bell <alan.bell at theopenlearningcentre.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wow, really? The shape of the u/U is totally different...
>>
>>
> well most fonts the capital and lower case uU is rather different,
> especially serif fonts. uk in lower case just looks, and is, wrong, but
> in caps it looked too big as "ubuntu" in the logo isn't capitalised.
> Using the glyphs of "UK" but shrinking them to the lower case size then
> compensating for the loss of weight gives an interesting effect, you
> have to look at it a couple of times to work out what is going on. I
> quite like it.
>
> Here are the details of the font used http://ubuntuone.com/p/7vV/

True. I guess I somehow mentally parse the initial "u" of "Ubuntu" in
the logo as a capital, as it's a proper noun...

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