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The history how Google got its logo was documented by »wired.com«.
Former Stanford University professor Ruth Kedar has written down the story. Google-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin started their search engine in Stanford during September 1998. It was also the birth of one of the most famous logos in the world ...

It could have looked like this:



Ruth Kedar reports, that they started with a Adobe Garamond but after several iterations the font "Catull" was chosen for the logo. Kedar wanted to keep the majority of the text untouched so the legibility was still intact, while adding some playfulness by bringing primary colors and two-dimensionality to the Os.

Some of the early drafts for the logo can be found on wired.com.

From: wired.com

Dutch designers from the agency "highway" (Utrecht) developed three new fonts on the basis of Toothpaste, hair gel and ketchup!
The fonts can be downloaded from autobahn.nl for free. On the page you also get an insight into the typical functioning of font production :-)

Source: autobahn.nl

Red Hat announced the public release of these fonts under the trademark LIBERATION at the Red Hat Summit. There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica, Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L,and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). The fonts are now available for to download.

Users are free to use these fonts on any system they would like. They are free to redistribute them under the GPL+exception license found in the download. Using these fonts does not subject documents to the GPL--it liberates them from any proprietary claim. Redhat encourage users to make them the default in Thunderbird, Firefox, and Open Office.

Source: Redhat

A good font is certainly important, but can only a change to a different font increase sales by 20%? "Lovejoy" from the Webmaster World forum reported that he replaced the Times font with Georgia, and a sharp increase in sales occured at the same time: Popular fonts. On the same site another user called "johncory" reported that he replaced Verdana with Georgia. The consequence were dramatically falling sales. So Georgia is not the optimum in any case.

Source: internetmarketing-news.de

It's not a big secret that Microsofts Windows operating systems contain many bugs. In constant regularity Microsoft provides patches. But regularly however, new bugs appear.

A new curious bug recently appeared on Bugtraq. Andrew Connell reported, that a simple font file is enough to reboot several flavors of Windows without prior warning. To demonstrate the issue, he provided an only three kilobyte big opentype font.

A doubleclick on this font file reboots Windows without any error message. The bug was reproducable on Windows 2000 and XP, while "Windows.NET Enterprise Server" seems to be not affected. Even the installation of Service Pack 1 under XP did not helped. A solution for this problem does not exist yet.

Source: pcwelt.de
Source: securityfocus.com

Microsoft accidentally delivered Office 2003 with the font "Bookshelf Symbol 7" that contains two swastika symbols. According to product manager Simon Marks the font was derived from a Japanese font.

"It was discovered by a customer a few weeks ago", Marks said. "There was no evidence of an evil intent. We have already contacted various Jewish organizations and will immediately publish a utility which will remove the font from the system." Later a tool will follow which only removes the two swastika symbols from the font.

Source: tecchannel.de