From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael J Gruber Subject: Re: Git Branding Overview, Re: Git.or.cz Experimental Design Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:59:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5fb1d2400807022011w7f8d79dbk68a64dc1b8b01d98@mail.gmail.com> <20080718103918.GO10151@machine.or.cz> <46a038f90807201450w57fdb523m42bc628f2dce7f87@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------080508020008050501030602" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 13:01:05 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 1KKt8Q-0001b3-Jy for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:00:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751048AbYGUK7u (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:59:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751551AbYGUK7u (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:59:50 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46255 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750870AbYGUK7r (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:59:47 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKt7J-0007w1-MU for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:45 +0000 Received: from whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.44.12]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:45 +0000 Received: from michaeljgruber+gmane by whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:45 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: whitehead.math.tu-clausthal.de User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) In-Reply-To: <46a038f90807201450w57fdb523m42bc628f2dce7f87@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------080508020008050501030602 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. 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