Branding guidelines are as much about what NOT to do as it is what to do. Notice that official project usage and regular public usage are different sections of the design document for Libre Office. It's beneficial to separate projects associated with GIMP development from other sub-sections that may or may not be affiliated with GIMP. Thus, it's not a dictation of what to do to copy the GIMP project website, but rather preserve the brand so it is not diluded by, say 1000 different wilbur fan art graphics, which is what you see when you do a Google image search for "GIMP logo". I think there's benefit in providing some official graphics and pre-made banners for things that link back to the official GIMP website, and special versions of the graphic for things tied directly to the GIMP project, and other graphics for general public use to spread awareness of GIMP. Thoughts? It's a good deal of work though, so if people aren't on board with it, please do let me know now. :) On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 06/23/2015 04:04 AM, Andrew Pullins wrote: > > > Over in the LibreOffice project the design and marketing team made > > the LibreOffice Branding Guidelines [1]. It goes over everything from > what > > the official spelling of the name, acceptable abbreviations, how the logo > > is to look with exact measurements, what colors are to be used with it, > and > > the official fonts. I think this would be a great starting point for > > creating a design document. > > Some people already mistake gimpforums.com for an official resource > because it resembles the www.gimp.org site rather closely. > > I really wouldn't like to encourage or dictate that any site should use > the same colors, fonts and measurements. > > > -- > Regards, > Michael > GPG: 96A8 B38A 728A 577D 724D 60E5 F855 53EC B36D 4CDD > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
