Re: Git Branding Overview, Re: Git.or.cz Experimental Design

["Matt Graham" <mdg149@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Michael J Gruber wrote:
>
>> Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 20.07.2008 23:50:
>> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:11:02PM -0400, David Baldwin wrote:
>> > > > http://baldwindev.com/git.or.cz/
>> > > I'm not sure if this is really an improvement on the current state,
>> > > but then again, the current state pretty much matches my idea and maybe
>> > > others will agree that your proposal is better. Thus, it's better to
>> > > show this to the Git community at large. :-)
>> >
>> > FWIW, I like it. I like both the better font and whitespace layout and
>> > the 3-color-spot-merge-to-white. As Petr says, we have had the
>> > (apologies, but to me) ugly logo for a while, so it is widely used,
>> > and perhaps it has even grown on people.
>> >
>> > BazaarNG managed to grab the best concept logo of the lot, IMHO, with
>> > the 'merge' roadsign.
>> >
>> > > If you think you have a cooler logo, that's fine too, but then it's
>> > > again better to present it explicitly, I believe.
>> >
>> > Can we separate the 2 things? The better fonts and layout look like a win to
>> > me.
>> >
>> > WRT the logo, the current one is not a particularly strong image, and
>> > we haven't spent millions in plastering it over magazines or anything.
>> > So a good new logo would be something to take on.
>>
>> I like that new logo (plusminus G), too, it's very descriptive. I just want to
>> raise one question which I can't answer myself:
>>
>> Are there any potential issues with the Helvetica license?
>>
>> In any case it may be safer do redo it with a GPL sans serif font. If one
>> wants to keep the association of the shape of "G" with a circular arrow then
>> FreeSans and Nimbus Sans L seem to be the only options.
>>
>> Alternatively, it may be easier to redo it in plain PS. I'll attach 2 KISS
>> variants. 1.5k for the eps, 3 colors only.
>
> You could have spared yourself the trouble:
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=blob_plain;f=share/resources/gitlogo.svg;h=c0d67e70ab31394f0635c141998e512437a138b4;hb=HEAD

The sideways Git is sweet, but as a favicon, it's awfully small.  I
think it would be easier to see with just the sideways G or just the
+- as a favicon and the whole thing for larger images.