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July 05, 2004

firefox fonts?

Does anyone know what the font is that's used in the Firefox buttons? I don't see any fonts on my system that match it and I'm trying to make a Firerfox banner. Here's my first stab at the word "Firefox" which will appear in the banner.

I've hand-tooled the font but I'm not that talented and I'd rather just find the real thing.

Posted by asa at July 5, 2004 08:31 PM
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Can't identify the font myself, but it says at the bottom of that page that buttons were contributed by Steven Garrity, Jon Hicks, and David Tenser. Email them and one of them will probably know.

Posted by: Greg on July 5, 2004 10:12 PM

When I was making the thunderbird button (thunderbird didn't have promotion button at that time, so I made my own one), I found a font that is quite similar.

Unfortunately I forgot what font it is... :-P

Posted by: minghong on July 5, 2004 11:14 PM

According to WhatTheFont ( http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ ) these are the matches I found:

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/linotype/itc-quay-sans/quay-sans-medium/

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ef/itc-quay-sans/quay-sans-ef-medium/

Probably not exactly right, but very close.

Alternatively, you could try Identifont ( http://www.identifont.com/identify.html )

Posted by: inertia on July 6, 2004 12:03 AM

Hey Asa - just ask the 'Visual Identity Team'! Its called Meta, and its now going to be used on all the branding (certainly for Firefox and Thunderbird anyway)

Posted by: Jon Hicks on July 6, 2004 12:59 AM

It would be great if the font used could be freely available (even if that doesn't mean free as in speech) so that anyone can contribute to the artwork. Just a thought...

Posted by: tva on July 6, 2004 01:25 AM

Asa, Jon is right - it's Meta (or MetaBold, to be more specific). The Mozilla Foundation bought a license for it - though we might need to buy more licenses.

Posted by: Steven Garrity on July 6, 2004 05:37 AM

Thanks everyone (especially John and Steven). I'll check into getting a license. Or maybe I'll just wait for the pros to make more buttons, banners and whatnot ;-)

--Asa

Posted by: Asa Dotzler on July 6, 2004 06:57 AM

Can we have vector logos and buttons as well? Otherwise Blake's want to have localized buttons will never be accomplished.

Heh, mu guess of it being Meta was absolutely 100% correct, even tho most of the time I see that font in cyrillic part of codepage :)

Posted by: vr on July 7, 2004 02:16 AM
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