690723 - Museo and Calluna described as Open Fonts

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(www.mozilla.org :: Pages & Content, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/brand/identity/typefaces/ calls Museo and Calluna Open Fonts. However, while Museo and Calluna are great font designs and available free of charge (free as in beer), they are neither Free as in Free Software nor Open as in Open Source.

Please don't call fonts that don't allow the distribution of derivatives as "Open". Using "Open" for things that aren't Open in the Open Source sense dilutes the meaning of Open.

Comment 1

[John Slater]

Thanks Henri. Matej, per our email conversation, can you work on this with Sean?

Comment 2

[Sean Martell]

I'd say we just pull them from the section and space out the two that are there. we can add more as time goes on and as we encounter more we like.

Comment 3

[Matej Novak [:matej]]

That works for me, or we could make the language a bit more ambiguous:

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Comment 4

[Sean Martell]

Calluna and Museo Sans are only free in one weight, so might be best to just axe them.

Comment 5

[John Slater]

If we simply remove those fonts is there anything else we need to do to clarify? (other copy or design changes, that is)

Just want to make sure we have our plan together before passing this back to silverorange.

Comment 6

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

(In reply to John Slater from comment #5)
> If we simply remove those fonts is there anything else we need to do to
> clarify? (other copy or design changes, that is)

The current copy seems appropriate for the other two fonts (League Gothic and Chunk Five) as is.

Comment 7

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/communications/typefaces/ no longer has the Museo and Calluna fonts.