On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > 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 <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. > > You could have spared yourself the trouble: > > http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=blob_plain;f=share/resources/gitlogo.svg;h=c0d67e70ab31394f0635c141998e512437a138b4;hb=HEAD The sideways Git is sweet, but as a favicon, it's awfully small. I think it would be easier to see with just the sideways G or just the +- as a favicon and the whole thing for larger images. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
