On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 18:23 +0000, Allan Day wrote: > Dave Neary <dne...@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 Those old guidelines were seriously out of date and were desperately 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 what was out of date about them?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 For me the out of date part primarily related to the colours and 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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