On 10/29/2024 23:47, Clinton Bunch wrote:
On 10/29/2024 23:33, Clinton Bunch wrote:
On 10/29/2024 22:37, Bart Schaefer wrote:
On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 8:24 PM Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:15 PM Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org> wrote:

On 10/29/2024 20:39, Oliver Kiddle wrote:

it would be more consistent if we matched the font used in the Zsh logo
although that was somewhat custom.

If someone can point me toward it, I'll try it as the header font.

I did that a few messages back:
https://online-fonts.com/fonts/arial-rounded-mt-bold

It's not exact because the logo font was custom-designed, it's sort of
a horizontally-condensed look compared to Arial Rounded.

It doesn't look like any version of Arial is a free font.  I think in order to use it as a webfont we'd have to purchase a license.

From Microsoft Windows Font FAQ:

Web fonts are fonts that are hosted on a web server. You do not have rights to:


We could specify it as part of the font "stack", but it would only show on systems that had the font installed locally.

If it needs to be from the Google catalog ...
Not so much specifically the Google Catalog, but they are all an open license.
Bold variant of one of these:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Kosugi+Maru?preview.text=ZSHELL%20Welcome%20To%20Z%20Shell&preview.size=41&script=Latn&categoryFilters=Sans+Serif:%2FSans%2FRounded
This one doesn't appear to have a bold variant and for some reason looks like something that would come out of a typewriter to me (though I think they all use a serif font, so I'm not sure why I get that feeling)
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Barlow+Condensed?preview.text=ZSHELL%20Welcome%20To%20Z%20Shell&preview.size=41&script=Latn&categoryFilters=Sans+Serif:%2FSans%2FRounded
I can try it on one of the pages and see how it looks. 
I put this at the top of the mailing list page.  Not crazy about it, but it's not awful.
Or perhaps this:
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dangrek?preview.text=ZSHELL%20Welcome%20To%20Z%20Shell&preview.size=41&script=Latn&categoryFilters=Sans+Serif:%2FSans%2FRounded
This doesn't have a bold weight, but the regular weight font is pretty bold as is. We'll try it.
This is on the Useful Links page.  I think it looks too playful.  Not Comic Sans playful, but still.


Here's the webfonts we've tried so far:

Crimson Pro (still my favorite) - https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/index.html

Barlow Condensed - https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/mlist.html

Dangrek - https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/links.html

Open Sans (same as body font, my favorite of the Sans Serif  headers we've tried) - https://zsh.clintonbunch.name/Doc/index.html


It doesn't look to me like we're going to find a match (at least with an open license) to the Logo, and unless it's very close, I don't think the attempt will look good.  If someone has other suggestions, we can try them.