From: Michael J Gruber Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:59:34 GMT Subject: Re: Git Branding Overview, Re: Git.or.cz Experimental Design Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <46a038f90807201450w57fdb523m42bc628f2dce7f87@mail.gmail.com> 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. Cheers, Michael