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[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

OK, before anyone gets too excited, it's my unfortunate duty to step in at 
this point with some bad news:

1. Branding is one of the areas where Red Hat is most likely to throw its
collective weight around.

2. It is the oft-expressed will of Red Hat that the Fedora never adopt an
actual *fedora* as a logo for the Fedora project, due to the potential of
confusion with the Shadowman logo, into which the company has poured
millions of dollars/man-hours.

In short: the lovely blue fedora is a non-starter.  Am I happy about this
state of affairs?  No, I'm not.  Not even a little bit.  But them's the
breaks.

So this leaves us with an interesting conundrum:

How do you represent an elephant without using an elephant?

Some ideas that have been passed around:
  * Using the logo type in a clever way.  (Which I hate.)
  * Making a souped-up "F".  (Which I hate only a little less.)
  * Coming up with a logo that somehow indicates community contribution
    and/or rapid progress, which yields lots of ideas, some of which are 
    irreconcilably lame:
    + A piggy bank.  (With a big "F"!)
    + Some sort of hand-grasping United Way-ish logo.
    + Some abstract thing with arrows or tides or something.  Many small
      arrows becoming one.
    + Blah blah blah.

To recap: no fedora to represent Fedora.  *Any* other decent idea welcome.

:(

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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, Tommy Reynolds wrote:

> Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster at gmail.com>, spake thus:
> 
> > Tommy Reynolds miraculously googled up a fedora hat that is license-
> > unencumbered.  The artist has it in the public domain, meaning we can
> > make a derivative work and GPL it.  I don't think the idea of "any
> > picture of a red fedora" should be a problem.  For instance, the
> > Bluecurve main menu icon (a little red fedora) is GPL.  I can derive
> > stuff from that work, but I can't call it "Bluecurve."
> 
> Paul,
> 
> I don't know if you've seen my attempts at:
> 
> 	http://www.megacoder.com/fdsc/logo.png
> 
> 	http://www.megacoder.com/fdsc/logo.svg
> 
> If you really think the text/card should be warped around the
> hatband, that is not hard directly in SVG.  Dunno about sodipodi
> though; it's another stupid GUI (IASG).  Hey, I just made that up!
> 
> Cheers
>