Re: GNOME logo: example on dark background

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Murray Cumming wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 13:52 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
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> > Murray Cumming wrote:
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> > > Andreas, could you maybe do a quick SVG for people who want to use the
> > > logo on a dark background, please, such as here:
> > > http://www.gnomejournal.org/
> > >
> > > Thanks.
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> > >      
> > Hello Murray!
> > Sorry that I kept you waiting, been busy with some other stuff lately.
> > This is the one used on gnomejournal
> > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnome-darkbg.svg
> >
> > I'm not 100% sure about this approach though. A white logo should 
> > probably work better for dark backgrounds as it has better contrast. I 
> > saw sony doing this with their playstation logo on tv the other day, and 
> > I think it's pretty common for logos to have a version with inverted 
> > colors for this. Can't come up with any good examples for the moment though.
> > Here is the inverted logo anyway.
> > http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnomelogo-inverted.svg
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> I guess people might want both. Could you CC marketing-list, please?
> Thanks lots.
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I'm cc marketing list with this mail (hi people!).
Well, I think we should at least recommend the inverted one in the logo 
guidelines, as it do actually display better on dark backgrounds.
The problem with the glowing logo 
(http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/gnome-darkbg.svg) is that it is 
made in such a way that it is impossible to blow it up in size too much 
without it looking wacky as the glow is made up of several 
semi-transparent objects.
- Andreas