From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Contreras Subject: Re: Our official home page and logo for the Git project Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:21:54 -0500 Message-ID: <20140411172154.GA24988@nysa.casa.local> References: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> <20140411114017.GC28858@sigill.intra.peff.net> <9D09EA38-1956-467F-88CF-9EA6F12F1CA0@quendi.de> <20140411132935.GA5871@nysa.casa.local> <53481DBF.6090307@ira.uka.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Philippe Vaucher , Max Horn , Jeff King , Andrew Ardill , Junio C Hamano , "git@vger.kernel.org" To: Holger Hellmuth X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 19:32:02 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WYfJ4-0008BP-8k for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:32:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752858AbaDKRb5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:31:57 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.219.42]:57284 "EHLO mail-oa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752379AbaDKRbz (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:31:55 -0400 Received: by mail-oa0-f42.google.com with SMTP id i4so6563054oah.29 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:31:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=WhLHZeU5PBwB7u+PEGOK0u2xo4JXBL0I47tNwqW0ulA=; b=y/qO1zPMUEpb3MC+i0DTSOZ/RB90X6DqPcGzP5oYTasgjsmRTfqOf/Kmrtkfm1wHBq Z7RR9BaDFa5qxf7MfqUC+/x83L3IpuvXWbl+ud01UosHarHbTkYNpEwItlh/ww8va9tt PO5nq0u0um/JsGqlWi/Hz8LxeeLE8TeP4Ky6V7prYviDZSlAjetiKOyIS9Ms/vHR4wDX a+kSMRqvbuJi7zd0cX27oxKXtRi6aiQMv8ZiixhSvbskmG3tXnA/+iesKorRxxit0Fbu QKv0nyprv5u7xFLMDNW2WFhMlgkzlXyVpXf2VLG6vTWqNI7N2inPrK7Z8YCVB9QhR6K6 z5AQ== X-Received: by 10.182.205.226 with SMTP id lj2mr1192027obc.84.1397237514399; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:31:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (189-211-224-40.static.axtel.net. [189.211.224.40]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ko3sm33890573oeb.1.2014.04.11.10.31.52 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <53481DBF.6090307@ira.uka.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Holger Hellmuth wrote: > Am 11.04.2014 17:39, schrieb Philippe Vaucher: > >FWIW, I think if you made a poll and asked which color is the most > >"positive" between green and red, the vast majority of people would > >say "green". Examples could be traffic green lights vs red lights, or > > Coca-Cola uses red. So red is refreshing and hip (if you believe the > commercials). Coca-Cola chose red long time ago, if branding and artist experts told them another colour would be better it wouldn't matter; their color is red and they can't change it now. Moreover we are not in the business of refreshing beverages, we are in the business of revision control, and in revision control red is old, green is new. Period. > Which is to say, git's wellfare will surely not depend on the color of > its logo. Otherwise the Coca-Cola company would have used a different > color. It doesn't. But green is still better. -- Felipe Contreras