[Nix-dev] Re: Nix Logo.

[Tony White]

2009/11/4 Nicolas Pierron <nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com>:
> Hi Nixers,
>
> I have news from the Author of the snowflake logo for Haskell.
>
> Here is the logo of Simon: http://www.haskell.org/sitewiki/images/5/5f/Sgf.svg
> and more at: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_logos/New_logo_ideas
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 19:32, Simon Frankau <...> wrote:
>> (...) Feel free to use the design. My design
>> was inspired by someone else's (I'm afraid I can't remember exactly whose),
>> but I think it was sufficiently derived that you probably don't need to do
>> any further chasing (for example, I drew it from scratch).
>>
>> Attribution? I'm not particularly worried. If you use it directly, saying
>> somewhere that I'd created it originally (for Haskell) would be nice. If
>> it's modified, say derived from instead - I don't want to take credit/blame
>> for the modifications. ;)
>>
>> I hope these terms and conditions aren't too onerous!
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 18:44, Andres Loeh <andres.loeh at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Other than for instance
>> the Haskell snowflake logos, it does not look very "professional", and
>> seems a bit unbalanced.
>
> IMO the Haskell logos seems to be "professional" compared to my own proposal.
>
>> Since we're going to be stuck with it for a
>> long time, perhaps we can for now agree that we want a logo in this
>> general direction and set a deadline for people to suggest
>> improvements.
>
> I agree, we have to set a deadline, which should be set before the
> FOSDEM.  The end of the year to accept the Nix logo seems to be a good
> deadline.  I don't know how much time it takes to make it print on
> T-shirts.
>
> --
> Nicolas Pierron
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasbpierron - http://nbp.name/
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Hi guys,
Here are some images I generated in inkscape to try with
fbsplash/fbcondecor, to use with a rudimentary set of scripts I am
writing for fbsplash theme generation :
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/powerplay123/nixLogo/1.png
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/powerplay123/nixLogo/2.png
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f272/powerplay123/nixLogo/3.png

The logo is supposed to spell Nix; with the i and the x as part of the
snowflake.

I'm no artist btw. Maybe if there is going to be a competition, there
should be submission guidelines for source image format and source
image size?
Must be svg and greater than ????x????. Otherwise there is no source
images for others to work from in the future and if you are going to
the printers with a logo that is not to scale, it may resize wrong and
just look wrong when printed.

There is actually a small work flow leading up to those images with
full svg src which I will post on my blog in a week or so.
fbsplash/fbcondecor theme generation scripts are nearly done, they'll
be up there too and I'm up for trying to see if I can use them to
generate a nixos theme everyone may use, incorporating the logo you
guys eventually choose along with input on position, colours, etc. The
scripts are designed to generate all the standard resolutions on this
chart :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vector_Video_Standards2.svg
with configs, etc from two svg source images (background and verbose)
Into four separate packages to choose from. Small, medium, large and
extra large (So you only need one but can release four; so everyone is
catered for with small download sizes.) There'll be more about it once
it's done.

Maybe someone knows an art student that could draw the logo?

Thanks,
Tony