On 10/23/12, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> On 10/22/12, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> hmmm...well, OK. I think I remember something like this now. Should we >>> use Alexandro's new one at: >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27834483/ApacheOpenOfficeTM.svg >> AFAIK there was no resolution on the fonts, the discussion ended on >> asking Michael Acevedo, but he never replied. > > Exactly. And this means we cannot use Alexandro's SVG since it is not a > 100% reproduction of the bitmap by Michael Acevedo (the orb is perfectly
Who made Michael Acevedo the offical artist of AOO? If we are going to have a 'new' logo that automatically disqualify using MA logo as a whole. So far Nobody wants a proprietary fonts. So this logo is out. Now the issue is if there is any problem using an OpenType License font. > done in SVG and it is the only SVG version of the orb we have available, > since we never received one from Oracle; but the text has a slightly > different formatting). > > We have two separate issues here: > > 1) Collecting and consolidating all versions of the logo we are using; > here a 95% accuracy is not acceptable. These versions should be placed > under http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/ or anyway under SVN. Most logos are variation of the first one. We can generate a whole new set for 4.0, or we can even go back to the pre-Oracle OpenOffice brand refresh and get the OpenOffice with the gulls. The Orb was never part of the logo, it was label a 'symbol' to be used in a different context of the logo, just like the wireframe gulls was for 2.4. > > 2) Collecting proposals that can be useful as inspiration for a new > visual identity; here it is of course acceptable to have variants of the > "official" logos, but these should remain proposals and be placed in the > wiki or such, possibly in pages that do not confuse a reader who types > "OpenOffice logo" in a search engine. We need a framework to make decisions "lazy conscensus, voting schemes, etc". But it seems there is a generalized knowledge that this is not only the logo but Application Icons, Mime Icons, and Module icons. Keeping a fresh logo with a very dated iconset is just not a good practice, specially for a 4.0 release. > > Regards, > Andrea. > Should this be taken to marketing list? Is really a non-coding topic and traditionally was handled by the "art Project" which was a subproject of marketing. Most of the visual identity and design need to be upstreamed to marketing to develop marketing kits. -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
