[ubuntu-art] logo / branding for ubuntu-women?

[Thorsten Wilms]

On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 20:27 +0200, Carol Meertens wrote:

Hi!

> We feel it would be nice to just have the Ubuntu circle, with its
> default colors, and with two additional crossing lines below it ('+').
> The '+' is making it the symbol for female. This was inspired by the
> debian women logo [3], which you probably know and which we like very
> much.

It works with the Debian swirl. But to my eyes, the 'heads' in the
circle of friends works against a recognisable integration of the Venus
symbol. Someone needs to play with the 2 symbols a bit.

I guess the Venus symbol is about the only option to not bring in some
cliche.


> In addition to that we would like a version of the mugshot with the
> words 'ubuntu' and 'women' at the right; using the ubuntu font.  One
> of our members, Akkana Peck, created an example:
> http://shallowsky.com/ubuntu-women/. We are not sure whether rotation
> of the circle is legally correct.

Please note that both available fonts do not mach the original "ubuntu"
of the logo, which means one would have to fill in the missing letters
for "women" for a consistent and correct whole. If one was to take the
letters from brainstorm, there would still be the w and e.

I think using a woman's wide and round handwritten "women", maybe
including the "ubuntu" would be much better. No worries about doing
further damage to the ubuntu title font situation, much more character.

I would have a hard time faking such handwriting. There are several
things I should finish before taking on anything else, anyway, so I hope
my input is of use to someone :)


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