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git sticker svg

Subject: git sticker svg

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Jeff King· Nov 1, 2011, 21:16 UTC · lore

If you were at the GSoC mentor summit or the GitTogether last week, you may seen Git stickers floating around. I printed 500, thinking there would be some leftovers to distribute afterwards. But either git is very popular, or somebody decided to re-wallpaper their bedroom, because we ran out.

In case anybody wants to make their own git sticker (or whatever), I'm providing the SVG that I sent to the printer. I ordered 2"x4" stickers, but it's scalable, you should be able to do any size.

Credit where credit is due:

The logo is shamelessly stolen from one Sam Vilain made for GitTogether t-shirts in 2008. It's really just the "---/+++" logo done in FreeMono with a few pretty colors and outlines. I have no idea who did the original "---/+++" logo. It's awesome, but I couldn't find a nice scalable version, hence this.

-Peff

Michael J Gruber· Nov 2, 2011, 08:32 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git sticker svg

Jeff King venit, vidit, dixit 01.11.2011 22:16:

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> If you were at the GSoC mentor summit or the GitTogether last week, you
> may seen Git stickers floating around. I printed 500, thinking there
> would be some leftovers to distribute afterwards. But either git is very
> popular, or somebody decided to re-wallpaper their bedroom, because we
> ran out.
> 
> In case anybody wants to make their own git sticker (or whatever), I'm
> providing the SVG that I sent to the printer. I ordered 2"x4" stickers,
> but it's scalable, you should be able to do any size.
> 
> Credit where credit is due:
> 
> The logo is shamelessly stolen from one Sam Vilain made for GitTogether
> t-shirts in 2008. It's really just the "---/+++" logo done in FreeMono
> with a few pretty colors and outlines.  I have no idea who did the
> original "---/+++" logo. It's awesome, but I couldn't find a nice
> scalable version, hence this.

Yeah, git has been G-+ long before G+ ;)

I do prefer the rotated, vertically stacked +-G though (with + <-> t, - <-> i, G <-> 3/4-circle with arrow). Good thing we don't have to argue about an "official" logo...

Michael

Junio C Hamano· Nov 2, 2011, 09:18 UTC · re: Michael J Gruber · lore

Re: git sticker svg

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> I do prefer the rotated, vertically stacked +-G though (with + <-> t, -
> <-> i, G <-> 3/4-circle with arrow). Good thing we don't have to argue
> about an "official" logo...

It somehow reminds me of the OGC logo fiasco, though.

Michael J Gruber· Nov 2, 2011, 09:54 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: git sticker svg

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 02.11.2011 10:18:

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> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
> 
>> I do prefer the rotated, vertically stacked +-G though (with + <-> t, -
>> <-> i, G <-> 3/4-circle with arrow). Good thing we don't have to argue
>> about an "official" logo...
> 
> It somehow reminds me of the OGC logo fiasco, though.

:)

While looking up "OGC logo fiasco" certainly was fun, I don't think that our msysgit logo, e.g., is prone to wild fantasies' misinterpretation, no matter the position, uhm, rotation:

http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=gitlogo.svg

But maybe my fantasy is not wild enough.

Michael

Erik Faye-Lund· Nov 2, 2011, 12:22 UTC · re: Michael J Gruber · lore

Re: git sticker svg

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 02.11.2011 10:18:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>>
>>> I do prefer the rotated, vertically stacked +-G though (with + <-> t, -
>>> <-> i, G <-> 3/4-circle with arrow). Good thing we don't have to argue
>>> about an "official" logo...
>>
>> It somehow reminds me of the OGC logo fiasco, though.
>
> :)
>
> While looking up "OGC logo fiasco" certainly was fun, I don't think that
> our msysgit logo, e.g., is prone to wild fantasies' misinterpretation,
> no matter the position, uhm, rotation:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=gitlogo.svg
>
> But maybe my fantasy is not wild enough.
>

Since I'm kind of a typography and design geek and I pretty much hate the execution of current logos I've seen, I thought I'd give it a go myself ;)

What do you think?

Jeff King· Nov 2, 2011, 16:59 UTC · re: Michael J Gruber · lore

Re: git sticker svg

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 09:32:42AM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:

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> Yeah, git has been G-+ long before G+ ;)
> 
> I do prefer the rotated, vertically stacked +-G though (with + <-> t, -
> <-> i, G <-> 3/4-circle with arrow). Good thing we don't have to argue
> about an "official" logo...

I actually don't like the stacked +-G (I find it hard to read). But since I was ordering the stickers, I got to decide. :)

I think it's clear that we don't want to get into an "official" logo argument, though. I'll let whoever orders stickers next time make the decision. :)

-Peff