On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 18:23 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:Mairin worked on logo & brand guidelines back in 2006. That was the work (I believe that you based this page off.Those old guidelines were seriously out of date and were desperately in need of a refresh. We have also been wanting to move the guidelines off the public wiki for (literally) years. I'm only embarrassed that it took me so long to get around to it. :)what was out of date about them?To be clear - their uptodateness was only one motivation for the rewrite. There's been requests to move them off the public part of the wiki for quite some time, and the old guidelines could have been much clearer (I'm not going to list all the reasons why). I think I succeeded in creating something that is much more succinct, and that people understand more readily (maybe that's one reason for the attention the guidelines have got). There were also obvious omissions, like the lack of guidelines on the GNOME name. For me the out of date part primarily related to the colours and sub-brands - none of this reflected current practice, either by the sub-brands that do exist or the kind of graphics we use on the website, flyers, posters, annual reports and so on. The sub-brands part of the page was also indicated to not be approved by the board - which sent a confusing message.
IMVHO, I would prefer if the board had approved the colors (I blame myself for not pushing that when I was there). I would not want to be forced to remove any the GNOME-related merchandising I have because of the trademark guidelines became stricter. I checked and none of my 13 t-shirts with the GNOME logo follows strictly the colors there, that includes the GUADEC ones. None of my 3 caps, neither the sticker on my laptop. The only item remaining to be compliant is my mug. I had the idea that the banner we made in Chile back then was kind of cool. It made a distinctive mark in conferences. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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