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 14:20:39 +0200 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 14:21:54 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 1KKuOm-0001b9-3v for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:21:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751554AbYGUMUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750847AbYGUMUw (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:52 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:41056 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771AbYGUMUv (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:20:51 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKuNm-0002im-Hi for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:20:50 +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 12:20:50 +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 12:20:50 +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: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin venit, vidit, dixit 21.07.2008 13:20: > 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: Thanks for the appreciation ;) > > 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. I don't think that was on the wiki before. Henrik's version (which was, and was being discussed here) *is* based on Helvetica. Still, the suggestion stands to replace it by something more polished. Michael