[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback

[Glynn Foster]

Tim Foster wrote:
> Hey there,
> 
> On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 12:32 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote:
>> As a result, we're going to stick with the 
>> designs that are at a later stage of development, iterating on the colours and 
>> fonts of
> 
>>    http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-logos/logos-4.html
> 
> Okay (a bit disappointed).
> 
> In that case, can we get some details of the colours and fonts used for
> the logos, and sources if at all possible in whatever formats ?

I'll try and get a colour palette as soon as possible.

> It's hard to suggest changes when we don't have the same sources that
> are available to Sun's design dept.

I completely agree - though in reality if we had access to an illustrator file 
(or suchlike), you'd still be stuck unless you had that application installed on 
another platform. They aren't being developed using a free and open source 
application.

> Wrt. the font, please please could it be a freely available typeface -
> one of the things that frustrated many about the last logo was that you
> had to have a license to use the Sun-fonts in order to reproduce the
> logo. Alternatively, could Sun buy, grant usage rights and make
> available whatever font is being considered ?

I agree, and that feedback has been already passed up to the design team.


Glynn