[Qgis-user] QGIS logo material & visual style guide

Anita Graser anitagraser at gmx.at
Fri Mar 31 02:00:04 PDT 2017


Thanks Tobias,

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Tobias Wendorff <
tobias.wendorff at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:
>
> I just was about to print the new logo on a bag and realized another bug:
> The SVG provided is NOT the one seen on the PNG picture! The "3D effect"
> is missing.
>

​Good catch! I'll fix that. ​

Furthermore, the SVG was designed using Adobe Illustrator. Sure, AI is
> the industry standard, but shouldn't we drop this line and keep it clean?
> There might be discussions like "Why didn't you use Inkscape?" etc.
> I think, that's what should be called "OSS responsibility" ;)
>

​I'm not in the business of telling designers which tools they should use
but I agree that the SVG is nicer when cleaned up.​

And the last problem: Who's the designer and which copyright is the logo
> in? The website is under CC BY-SA 3.0, but this means that the holder of
> the copyright wants (and needs) to be known. If he doesn't want to be
> known, we should drop the BY attribute.


Like the previous logo, the new one will be covered by our trademark. I'll
add a link the the trademark page.

Best wishes,
Anita

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