[GRASS-PSC] Proposal: Logo variant to include "GRASS GIS" as name

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8 April 2015 at 22:25, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>
wrote:
> >>>
> >>> >> for a better communication, I would suggest to add the string
"GRASS
> >>> >> GIS" under the horizontal line in the logo as a variant of it (so,
> >>> >> e.g. on the main Web site, upper left logo it is not needed).
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > i.e. something like the central image on the top of:
> >>> >
> >>> > http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/w/images/GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg
> >>> >
> >>> > but without the tag line ?
> >>>
> >>> yes,
> >>
> >> Attaching (a screenshot of) what I used in the EGU Python poster (text
added
> >> in LaTeX, textbf textsf).
> >>
> >>> and with all written in capital letters: GRASS GIS
> >>
> >> Just note that keeping "capital letter" everywhere will be a challenge
since
> >> we have all-lower-case in the Startup screen.
> >
> > Not everywhere. Just in this single version.
> > In the past 20-30 years we were pretty open to different logo
incarnations :-)
> >
> > Your screenshot looks fine, do you have a vector version of it?

As I said it's from poster and it was done in LaTeX. However, I guess it
would be easy to recreate it in Inkscape with Libre Sans Serif.

Is the SVG on the website the one Vincent cleaned up?

> I like it, maybe I would remove a little bit of space between the line
and text.

Can be. This depends on the context (I think I had it differently for
different materials).

> Thanks Vaclav
>
> > thanks
> > Markus
> >
>
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> Luca
>
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