Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] New Donate Link Graphics
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Golden Ribbon <water.ribbon@...155...> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Donate Link Graphics To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...>
Josh Andler
To answer your questions regarding branding, no single person is
responsible for the branding, it has been a collective effort over the years.
There really should be a dedicated page on the branding specs. If I wanted to create something official for inkscape, problems like this would eventually come-about again. Things to be included are official hexadecimal colours - e.g. I see a shade of orange in the website and in other inkscape affairs, has that shade been settled on?. the Typeface for the "Draw freely" moto. and the official font for the inkscape name... also things likes the logo as aforementioned, and its variants (flat design) as well as the guide for icon creation.
I would be happy to construct that as well once I can get a link or even a joint agreement on some aspects as admittedly things have been settled over time and it maybe difficult to find true documentation of the original ideas.
Regards, Phillip Taylor
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...
wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:27:01AM -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...>
wrote:
On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:21 -0800, Josh Andler wrote:
Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that
the
Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo,
but
it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was
immediately
noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding.
Do you want the white back-line removed or can that stay?
The white line surrounding it isn't an issue, but I'd be curious to see
it
both with and without.
In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg"
that
has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed.
They won't be redistributed, the html code feeds into fastly cache, so unless people save them it's fine.
I just tend to be concerned about people saving stuff which is why I brought it up... so, I suppose redistributed was a worse choice of words than available. :)
Good catch, yes I agree this should be fixed. Do you think it'll take more than a day or two to get them fixed up? If it will take longer, should we perhaps hide these incorrect ones on the website? Josh has a good point that images posted to the internet can sometimes get copied around inadvertantly...
Bryce
Hey GR,
OK so I fixed the graphics on the site, this was the difference between the two logos:
* The inkscape logo was fatter (so preserve aspect ratio) * The white mark towards the lower middle was missing
There was also some unintentional errors, with the black blobs not having a background white line. But Josh has said that the white lines and the grey colour are fine, as it the flat design.
This is the closest we have to the required page:
https://inkscape.org/en/about/trademark-policy/
Maybe we can add to it at the top with the icon/graphics package and the rules?
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 15:04 -0500, Golden Ribbon wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Golden Ribbon <water.ribbon@...155...> Date: Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 3:03 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Donate Link Graphics To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...>
Josh Andler
To answer your questions regarding branding, no single person is
responsible for the branding, it has been a collective effort over the years.
There really should be a dedicated page on the branding specs. If I wanted to create something official for inkscape, problems like this would eventually come-about again. Things to be included are official hexadecimal colours - e.g. I see a shade of orange in the website and in other inkscape affairs, has that shade been settled on?. the Typeface for the "Draw freely" moto. and the official font for the inkscape name... also things likes the logo as aforementioned, and its variants (flat design) as well as the guide for icon creation.
I would be happy to construct that as well once I can get a link or even a joint agreement on some aspects as admittedly things have been settled over time and it maybe difficult to find true documentation of the original ideas.
Regards,
Phillip Taylor
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...983...> wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:27:01AM -0800, Josh Andler wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2016-02-23 at 09:21 -0800, Josh Andler wrote: > > > Sorry about top posting but I have a HUGE issue with the fact that the > > > Inkscape logo was not used in those images. It resembles the logo, but > > > it is NOT our logo. It is not as clean as our logo. It was immediately > > > noticeable to me and it is not acceptable to dilute our branding. > > > > Do you want the white back-line removed or can that stay? > > > > The white line surrounding it isn't an issue, but I'd be curious to see it > both with and without. > > > > > In the "branding" subfolder under "share", is a "draw-freely.svg" that > > > has our old flat logo which is what should be used. This needs to be > > > done ASAP so these incorrect ones are not redistributed. > > > > They won't be redistributed, the html code feeds into fastly cache, so > > unless people save them it's fine. > > > I just tend to be concerned about people saving stuff which is why I > brought it up... so, I suppose redistributed was a worse choice of words > than available. :)
Good catch, yes I agree this should be fixed. Do you think it'll take more than a day or two to get them fixed up? If it will take longer, should we perhaps hide these incorrect ones on the website? Josh has a good point that images posted to the internet can sometimes get copied around inadvertantly... Bryce--
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...155...> wrote:
This is the closest we have to the required page:
https://inkscape.org/en/about/trademark-policy/
Maybe we can add to it at the top with the icon/graphics package and the rules?
We also have http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Branding which is now outdated since we changed the more often used logo to the inkier/3d looking one and the recent change to the Draw Freely font.
Cheers, Josh
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