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Title: Old News
Date: 2006-06-04 12:25
Author: Femke
Category: News, Type
Slug: old-news
Status: published

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](http://www.bertholdtypes.com/bq_library/90090.html))?

[![openlogo-100.jpg](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/openlogo-100.jpg){#image175}](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/openlogo-100.jpg "openlogo-100.jpg"){.imagelink}

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