FDP Logo

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 09:39 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 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.
> 
> :(

OK, good to have the information.  I don't think the "souped-up 'F'"
idea is too horrible... At least the shape of that letter leaves space
in a graphic for a variety of nice ideas.  I'll work up something in my
copious spare time for fun.

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Paul W. Frields, RHCE                          http://paul.frields.org/
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