Martin Langhoff venit, vidit, dixit 20.07.2008 23:50:
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> 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
