Ubuntu GNOME logo design

Alfredo Hernández aldomann.designs at gmail.com
Mon Jul 8 04:51:10 UTC 2013 

I didn't inform about this last iteration (my fault, sorru), I'll have
Andreas Nilssen know, but I'm sure that it would be accepted. I'll also ask
the board about social pages branding.

Regards.
On 8 Jul 2013 03:08, "Tim" <darkxst at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>  Hey Alfredo,
>   Did you follow up this proposed logo with the GNOME board?
>
> Thanks
>    Tim
>
> On 27/05/13 08:10, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
>
> The only thing they (GNOME) wanted was us to use the official GNOME font,
> so as far as I am concerned, they are fine with us using the GNOME foot
> over the blue circle. I'll send a message to the GNOME board with the new
> logo proposal and the way we want to use the branding in social pages.
> Hopefully, we should expect no problems.
>
>  Regards.
>
>
> On 26 May 2013 22:38, Everaldo Canuto <everaldo.canuto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One of the reasons I asked to change the name from Ubuntu GNOME to any
>> other name (eg. Gubuntu) is just because this long logos with two names is
>> just hard to pronounce and also hard to do something since we need to fit
>> both GNOME guidelines and Ubuntu guidelines.
>>
>>  With the name "Ubuntu GNOME" theres no way to make a different logo.
>> Also, just remember that (they always say it is not true) GNOME today is
>> mostly a RedHat project and they are not going make things easy to us.
>>
>>  Sadly :(
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/5/26 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> First, I doubt that the GNOME board will accept such a variation of the
>>> GNOME foot; they are very strict about modifications of their branding.
>>>
>>> Second, all official Ubuntu spins follow the same design philosophy, I
>>> don't see any serious reason about doing the contrary.
>>>
>>> About the resemblance to the GNOME logo, the GNOME board don't have
>>> enough problem about it, as I was informed by Andreas a few days ago. Using
>>> the GNOME foot creates a direct link with GNOME, which is the exact purpose
>>> of our distribution.
>>>
>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>>  On 26 May 2013 22:02, <itsuga at agusti.cat> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Alfredo has done a good work, but I think the logo is very similar to
>>>> Gnome's.
>>>>
>>>> So my proposal for the Ubuntu GNOME logo is to rotate the Gnome foot 90
>>>> degrees so an "U" can be read,
>>>> and with this version no colour is needed to differentiate from Gnome's
>>>> logo, so it can be black:
>>>> a png of the proposal =>
>>>> http://agusti.cat/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo-agusti.png
>>>> and the svg version =>
>>>> http://agusti.cat/ubuntu-gnome-logo/ubuntu-gnome-logo-agusti.svg
>>>>
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Agustí.
>>>>
>>>> A 2013-05-25 16:27, Bastien Traverse escrigué:
>>>>
>>>>  Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Kudos to Alfredo for his work. I really like the more spaced logo.
>>>>>
>>>>> However I have the same feeling as Erick Brunzell about the colour : at
>>>>> first the blue made me think of Kubuntu... Until I realized Xubuntu and
>>>>> Lubuntu both used a blue circle too! How weird. But okay, blue is
>>>>> definitely GNOMish since Adwaita. So... Everything's fine here, great
>>>>> work!
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Bastien
>>>>>
>>>>> 2013/5/25 Alfredo Hernández <aldomann.designs at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>  You're welcome. Actually, in the designs, it works a lot better. The
>>>>>> original one felt like some kind of one worded e-mail address or
>>>>>> something.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> About colour, I think we all agree Adwaita blue is very GNOMEish and
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> very accordant with the distro appearance. We could use other tones of
>>>>>> blue, but the one used is particularly brightish and works well in
>>>>>> several situations.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Alfredo,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for incorporating my feedback. For what it's worth, I love your
>>>>>> designs.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Alfredo Hernández
>>>>>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello there,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I've finished the logo iterations, proposals for the social pages
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> branding
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and a very simple website mockup to see the logo in action.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Logos: http://cl.ly/image/3v3Z3C3B212W [1]
>>>>>>> Social pages branding: http://cl.ly/image/3T1a3X47420f [2]
>>>>>>> Webpage mockup: http://cl.ly/image/0b2n2u0O183r [3]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tell me what you think, mates.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 24 May 2013 01:57, Alfredo Hernández
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'll have that in mind when making iterations, Dave. Thanks for
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  pointing
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  that up.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yeah, I'm also a bit disappointed about not using Cantarell (which
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  looks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  fantastic), but GNOME's font doesn't look bad at all.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Regards, Alfredo.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 24 May 2013 01:25, "Dave Steinberg" <dmsteinberg at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's great that you heard back, but too bad they don't want to let
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  you
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  use Cantarell.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm newish to the list, and wasn't around for the previous logo
>>>>>>>>> discussions, but I went back and looked at the archives. I really
>>>>>>>>> liked the way Cantarell looked with the Ubuntu logo. Oh well.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> One thing I was wondering about: why the lack of space between the
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  two
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  words? It seems pretty clear that the name is two separate words
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  with
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  a space between (from the Web site, the social media pages, this
>>>>>>>>> mailing list...), so I wonder if having no space in the logo might
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>  add
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  some confusion.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for all your work!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Alfredo Hernández
>>>>>>>>> <aldomann.designs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Great new guys, Tobias Mueller and Andreas Nilsson from GNOME
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   have
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   responded
>>>>>>>>>> me about GNOME trademark use:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>>> After talking to the board about this, we feel it would be
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   better to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   use the
>>>>>>>>>> GNOME logo typeface instead of Cantarell.[...]
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This weekend (I'm very busy right now) I'll make the changes to
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   previous
>>>>>>>>>> logo and I'll post the new one here in order to discuss its
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   final form
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   (if
>>>>>>>>>> we decide to use my proposal).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also, I've been making some mockups of how the website (a design
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   based
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   on
>>>>>>>>>> the current Ubuntu website) could look like using the proposed
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   logo to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   show
>>>>>>>>>> how it would look in a real situation. Also, I'll make mockups
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>   of the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   social
>>>>>>>>>> pages branding (Google+ page and Facebook).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>> Alfredo.
>>>>>>>>>>
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>>>> Links:
>>>> ------
>>>> [1] http://cl.ly/image/3v3Z3C3B212W
>>>> [2] http://cl.ly/image/3T1a3X47420f
>>>> [3] http://cl.ly/image/0b2n2u0O183r
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