Ubuntu GNOME logo design

Alfredo Hernández aldomann.designs at gmail.com
Thu May 23 23:57:05 UTC 2013


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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