[OSGeo-Discuss] [Marketing] OSGeo symbols set

Mon Dec 17 01:24:56 PST 2018

As I understand it, this kind of greyish styles are used when you want to
show the full list but don't want people to get distracted with each and
every icon. But I'm not a designer expert.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 2:05 AM Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:

> I still dont understand why does pgRouting logo and many others have to
> lose the colors.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 8:03 AM nicolas bozon <nicolas.bozon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have updated the OSGeo symbols set according to your feedbacks.
>>
>> Updated Preview:
>> https://nbozon.github.io/OSGeo/symbols-set/
>>
>> Updated material:
>>
>> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/pull/206/commits/d4cf2ebc76e34293333953980a38dd047d3003a7
>>
>>
>> Basic changelog:
>>
>> - Removed every symbols considered as non-compliant to our brand
>> guidelines
>> - Removed the Get-It project logo which is not a community project at all
>> - Corrected PostGIS and PgRouting elephant logos (so a bit less scalable
>> now)
>> - Corrected mapfish and pywps logos (added missing text)
>> - Renamed live to osgeolive
>>
>> As nothing that may considered as non compliant to our guidelines
>> remains, and that the first batch of community feedbacks have been taken
>> into account, may i suggest that the OSGeo symbols set could now be pulled
>> into the branding repo ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any comment
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Le mer. 21 nov. 2018 à 00:30, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi Jody,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your constructive feedbacks.
>>>>
>>>> I am a bit confused on this one - part of the point of having our mark
>>>>> was to use it everywhere on all the OSGeo things.
>>>>>
>>>> Our mark is our beloved compass, and these variations on the compass
>>>> are meant to represent all the OSGeo things :)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>  I get your point here, but i think these symbols could be great to
>>>> help differenciate the many facets of OSGeo.
>>>> Imagine a new comer that could for example identify each of our
>>>> activity very clearly. I think that symbols might help him to
>>>> understand the foundation and find his way, with always the compass
>>>> shape in mind of course :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I understand, and indeed I assumed we would go with the sub brand
>>> approach myself. As such I am not the best person to do the pros/cons
>>> between the ideas :)
>>>
>>> This is a case where I love your work, and want to double check our
>>> strategy.
>>>
>>> The style guide is here:
>>> https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/marketing/branding
>>>
>>> The summary has:
>>>
>>> *Logos are as provided for OSGeo and sub-brands (all of which include
>>>> the unalterned OSGeo mark). Distinct brands (such as GeoForAll and OSGeo
>>>> Live) maintain their own mark.*
>>>> *While logos have been produced with Miriam Libre Bold and Sintony
>>>> Regular the resulting shapes have been reduced to outlines for use on
>>>> systems that do not have the correct fonts available. A template has been
>>>> provided for the generation of additional sub-brand logos.*
>>>
>>>
>>> aside: We really need this converted to html for our website.
>>>
>>> You are right, and i think Boundless did a great elephant design on the
>>>> old OpenGeo Suite, so i got inspired :)
>>>> Slonik is a lovely but very detailed SVG, so difficult to integrate in
>>>> such a symbol set. That's why i decided to use a simpler one.
>>>> I will try to modify it before the PostGIS folks complain :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Chance for collaboration rather than complaints, I think everyone can
>>> see the design limitation.
>>>
>>> Our OSGeo compass outline does not "quite" work, since there is not much
>>> room for the project identify inside. I think we had sub branding as a
>>> priority we would of done it a little bit different.
>>>
>>>
>>>> - get-it just added themselves to the website wrong and have not yet
>>>>> asked to be a community project? I am trying to confirm now ...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Whoa, my bad, sorry ! i didn't know one could become a Community
>>>> Project so easily :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> We like projects to ask, the code and project is reviewed on the
>>> incubation list, etc..
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, please confirm with the Incubation Committee about their
>>>> application. I see you already removed it from the website so i will remove
>>>> it from the set.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah I may of messed up there, trying to figure it out.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Loader is being added (it is approved but still has a draft web page)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Good point, will plan to integrate the Loader logo, but i can't find it
>>>> by now :(
>>>>
>>>
>>> To be honest I do not think they have a logo.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> - GC2/Vidi was just added yesterday
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, and the Mapcentia logo is already in the set. I understand both
>>>> GC2 and Vidi use the same logotype right ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah and that is the logo of the company so ... not the best logo for
>>> the project? Actually if you wanted to stop by the incubation list we could
>>> talk to the projects directly.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again and talk soon
>>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed!
>>> Jody
>>>
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