I agree. I do like the style of the original font better. The “B” is just fat around the two curves. It doesnt match the weight of the other letters and makes the left side logo look heavier than it already is.
Either way. When I’m using it and showing it off to everyone, I doubt any of this will be a factor.
Spoiler: I don't really know how to phrase it correctly and I do not say that to cross someone. But, regarding the font question, I cannot prevent myself to feel the result as misfit. All the BLF collaboratively designed products are well thought, and I feel like the font selection is not up to the task : representing the engineering challenge overcame.
Is the Ubuntu Bold really settled, or is debate still opened?
I prefer the rounded font of the BLF Q8 (there are 2 font for the BLF GT and are different) and went throught a lot of messages to find its name without result. I tried to find an equivalent but none were as well “balanced” (don’t know if it’s the appropriate word).
I prefer the Ethnocentric Font i posted above earlier over the Unumtu one. The Ubuntu font looks to “cheap” or plain, almost like an enhanced dot-matrix printer font.
For what its worth, I strongly agree. Ubuntu looks extremely plain to me, the Ethnocentric at least has character.
At the same time, and recognizing that in this post I’m contributing to this as well, does it seem to anyone else that we’ve spent an inordinate amount of posts on the *font *of the lantern? I guess its a sign that people are excited about this project such that they want to discuss it even when there’s nothing substantive to talk about, but still…
We spend an inordinate amount of posts on everything, the font of the lettering on a BLF light is actually one of the more relevant subjects we spend posts on