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Firefox New York Times Ad Hits the Presses

Posted by michael on from the extra-extra dept.

Dave writes "The long awaited New York Times ad for Firefox has finally hit the presses. Because of the vast number of donations the ad covered two pages of the newspaper. It's being timed to coincide with 11 million downloads."

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  1. Re:Higher resolution image? by Kreldon · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.mozilla.org/press/nytimes-firefox-final .pdf

  2. All you wanted to know about the ad... by Jonny+Royale · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is a link to the folks behind the ad. Including a PDF version, a poster you can buy...and a place to put in the correction if they mis-typed your name.

  3. Re:Higher resolution image? by frozenray · · Score: 5, Informative
    Those are "Community Champions", meaning that they got 10 or more other people to donate for the ad.
    Due to the large number of names and the semi-frequent changes and corrections on top of the way the names were sorted (by last name) it was fairly impossible to pull out the Community Champions separately. I decided that it also made more sense for them to be seen as "integrated" within the community, rather than segregated out on their own... AND, in some ways... the underline brings a sort of mysterious attention to them--the kind of special notice that they deserve!
    (from spreadfirefox.com)
    --
    "There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare." - Blair Houghton
  4. Re:Wow!! by factoryjoe · · Score: 4, Informative
    Here are the final specs on the names:
    • Font: Univers Bold Condensed
    • Size/Line-height: 4.5pt/4.6
    • Tracking: -23
    This is slightly bigger than when the c|net article came out and MUCH bigger than when it was only one page!! In all my test prints, the names were fairly legible, and from what I hear, they look pretty good in the paper.