From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git Branding Overview, Re: Git.or.cz Experimental Design Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:20:14 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <5fb1d2400807022011w7f8d79dbk68a64dc1b8b01d98@mail.gmail.com> <20080718103918.GO10151@machine.or.cz> <46a038f90807201450w57fdb523m42bc628f2dce7f87@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 13:21:54 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 1KKtSB-0007di-K5 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:21:20 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754273AbYGULUS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:20:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754186AbYGULUS (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:20:18 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36424 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753648AbYGULUQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:20:16 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2008 11:20:15 -0000 Received: from grape.st-and.ac.uk (EHLO grape.st-and.ac.uk) [138.251.155.28] by mail.gmx.net (mp003) with SMTP; 21 Jul 2008 13:20:15 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19KcH0q2oRK1LayHg972fYbOQfeB8nLrLYnrRbXgy MTSpRCwJbOG5Wp X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 Done without the use of any font at all. Ciao, Dscho