Forums | MacLife
You are not logged in.
#1 2009-01-20 7:00 pm
Good font for image watermarks?
I'm looking for a decent font (does not need to be free) for putting a copyright and name (via the php gd wrapper) on an image.
The font color I will use probably will be white, I'd like it to be somewhat thick.
It really should be a TrueType font - my gd library (and hence php-gd) is not linked against t1lib so it uses freetype2 for T1 fonts and there is a bug that prevents it from properly rendering the copyright symbol when using t1 fonts.
It needs to be a font with a license, free font would be great if the font is genuinely free - but I'm not opposed to buying one (IE myfonts.com).
Something like this -
http://www.naherp.com/photo.php?v_id=2868
Is that an outline font? It looks to be black border around white. Do outline fonts work like that in php-gd?
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
Offline
#3 2009-01-20 7:21 pm
- zeitgeist
- Current Status: FUD
- Registered: 2008-08-10
- Posts: 637
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
Comic Sans. 
"We regard as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."
- President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address
Offline
#4 2009-01-20 8:01 pm
- Fracai
- Evacipate
- From: St. Elsewhere
- Registered: 2000-05-25
- Posts: 2835
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
zeitgeist wrote:
Comic Sans.
Ya know? That may be the best use of Comic Sans I've ever heard. It sure would help with curbing unauthorized use.
Offline
#5 2009-01-21 11:00 pm
- Stan
- Member
- From: Rock Island
- Registered: 2002-04-09
- Posts: 713
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
Fracai has a good point, but I'd use Verdana. You already have it and it's a good, readable screen font.
Offline
#6 2009-01-22 12:26 am
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
Stan wrote:
Fracai has a good point, but I'd use Verdana. You already have it and it's a good, readable screen font.
Actually I don't think I do, I only run Linux.
I'm currently using Courier (type 1 licensed from Adobe (ATB package I bought awhile ago) for development - I may just end up buying a ttf version of it (I know courier new is free with ms core web fonts - but I don't believe that it can legally be installed and used on a remote unix production server).
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
Offline
#7 2009-01-22 12:39 am
- Zetetic Apparatchik
- Member
- Registered: 2001-01-07
- Posts: 8250
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq8.htm wrote:
Q Will I be able to use the TrueType fonts provided on your site in applications other than HTML authoring, such as correspondence (i.e. letter writing) and desktop publishing?
A Absolutely. …
Join the MAF AudioScrobbler group.
Protest ist, wenn ich sage, das und das paßt mir nicht. Widerstand ist, wenn ich dafür sorge, daß das, was mir nicht paßt, nicht länger geschieht.
Offline
#8 2009-01-22 12:54 am
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
Zetetic Apparatchik wrote:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq8.htm wrote:
Q Will I be able to use the TrueType fonts provided on your site in applications other than HTML authoring, such as correspondence (i.e. letter writing) and desktop publishing?
A Absolutely. …
Possibly - but this requires installation of the fonts on another machine.
MS has ended the free coreweb program, I know the license they were provided with seems to allow others to continue to distribute them under the same license, but the argument could be made that the purpose of that license (allowing others to distribute them) was to facilitate easy distribution of the fonts before the internet and fast connections were common, and not to facilitate use of the fonts on a commercial server, and that since MS has ended distribution, they really should not be distributed by others.
Last time I looked at myfonts.com, ttf variants of the base35 fonts weren't that expensive, and come with nice explicit licenses stating how many machines they can be installed on and their commercial use, so there is no question.
Maybe one of the open source vera fonts would work well enough, however.
Last edited by resedit (2009-01-22 12:56 am)
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
Offline
#9 2009-01-22 1:05 am
Re: Good font for image watermarks?
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fon … spx?FID=10
There MS has a link to where you can license Courier New - it seems MS did not own the font itself but rather a license to distribute it, and thus may not have had the authority to give the font away under the terms that people like to interpret the core web fonts license.
In her right hand Jenny held the Bible of her mother
Jenny had a pistol in the other
-- Steve Taylor
Offline
