From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Matt Graham" Subject: Re: Git Branding Overview, Re: Git.or.cz Experimental Design Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:40 -0400 Message-ID: <1c5969370807211303t538d066axb8ec2f7e3d7e853e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5fb1d2400807022011w7f8d79dbk68a64dc1b8b01d98@mail.gmail.com> <20080718103918.GO10151@machine.or.cz> <46a038f90807201450w57fdb523m42bc628f2dce7f87@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Michael J Gruber" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 22:04:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KL1cg-00007u-7W for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:04:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753533AbYGUUDm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753446AbYGUUDm (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:42 -0400 Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.174]:38575 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753412AbYGUUDl (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:41 -0400 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 27so1770012wfd.4 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=E5YCL3JxCp6yQ5lGTkippwAW0xNhdNpBoEahvQ6YSNg=; b=IPy9ngR4dZm9zketza85lqIg1yqh9XLKM0iYeqOcBEzC523fpGy8gHljvhhQ7vsjVz OK1y+G7bLnnFq4Ilp+tgtN6dPi3Wq2zOusBsLNGd3YqFzKgS9nFlLV8lCDAH7+RsVhRs cFczG1FdSPBx50ygFI1qkpgHLqClzKe/hz7tA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=g25m+Is6pyEHCEnwIMhcGYdHuyJDHP3W7Vq87byVxNQkj3beCO+zH72dMTMzOurTGG tSM7WYHwkFGUh9WIg72K3Ad93bdRvxX7g7jLu7MWn4BE3qDToDLmJivMsvZGF7lqotxd VQGKAL9cowPynlnCZwxVfhT7cbDNUulCpLjaA= Received: by 10.142.154.20 with SMTP id b20mr1497170wfe.222.1216670620191; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.49.13 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:03:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin 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 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.