From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karsten Blees Subject: Re: Our official home page and logo for the Git project Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:07:46 +0200 Message-ID: <53482162.9030706@gmail.com> References: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 11 19:08:03 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 1WYevn-00033n-9n for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 19:07:59 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758994AbaDKRHw (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:07:52 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f42.google.com ([74.125.83.42]:42962 "EHLO mail-ee0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758659AbaDKRHq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 13:07:46 -0400 Received: by mail-ee0-f42.google.com with SMTP id d17so4394781eek.29 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:07:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QmZxX6d3PAFl67FJnP7y2oBmebXY7LT8u5HK+NqL81A=; b=SKGlkp8EkEhxw5ipfuw4L55j2CXIInaujBtcRGZppeddjhRhT8ShB/X1CA+4jslMnA gvwS1gnFgVXfB5HxZcEY80NP4xodq3MdFiMBtjhGGiK6KrwATiqBpNGr/JD5pTvA6R4a n4Tno2Z/FJyrr3N5EEGzoG8kUnAMNWsSB6AYc9n+ao7B4DRVPnidRP4NwyLgYiISmIly Ee034WoHiOXC7ML8eJQSTFZsw2XXemfhfoJj73ROjCuFTBkVBm0IcYHpEVcTaAx7TTEO C++A7V8xFoNe3T41GhOYvhokCLF/aX5HQtbrcbuubfZ5YkswYPZ5WXdFG1rEOAQW03AR Jw+w== X-Received: by 10.14.211.66 with SMTP id v42mr30137705eeo.31.1397236065337; Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:07:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.116.60] (ns.dcon.de. [77.244.111.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id a4sm18978817eep.12.2014.04.11.10.07.44 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:07:44 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 In-Reply-To: <534578b2e22e2_af197d3081@nysa.notmuch> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Am 09.04.2014 18:43, schrieb Felipe Contreras: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> - To officially adopt the logo that appears on the "project >> home page" as our "project logo". > > I have made my objections to that logo before, but here it goes again: bright > red is a horrible color for a logo, as it only looks good in limited > situations. I propose you use the logo I chose for git-fc[1] which has a better > color, and instead of showing commits going down, they go up. > > Here[2] you can see how horrible contrast this brigth red makes. > > [1] http://felipec.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/git-fc2.png > [2] http://felipec.org/contrast.png > I believe the color of the proposed logo is orange rather than bright red. And I think its a pretty good color for git, as it conveys friendliness and confidence [1][2]. Additionally, orange/red alerts and attracts the eye while green is calming, uninteresting. Imagine a page with five different SCM logos. If you want git to stand out, choose orange/red. If you want git to be overlooked choose green. Just my 2 cents. [1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brian-honigman/psychology-color-design-infographic_b_2516608.html [2] http://www.usabilitypost.com/2008/09/29/a-guide-to-choosing-colors-for-your-brand/