Logos: everybody wants one but nobody seems to have any constructive comments. (was Re: Cool Fedora schwag idea)

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> > How about we steal the logo for pup and put a little bitty hat on him?
> 
> That is indeed a cute logo, it would only need a creative person to do a 
>   story about the relationship between the pup and the distro.
> You say to put a hat on him: so what is the final resolution, hats are 
> allowed or forbidden?

A straight hat as a logo is clearly forbidden.  A hat that is an element 
of another logo may be acceptable.  It'll certainly be easier to lobby 
for.
 
> When defining the rules for the logo we may want or not to impose 
> certain technical restrictions, like low number of colors (to not have 
> something expensive to print), the image to allow a monochrome variant 
> (to be possible to put in on faxes) etc.

I'll say this for everyone's benefit: the design folks at RH are perfectly
happy to spend cycles on this, and they understand these issues deeply.  
So no worries there.

The one big rule, though: this logo needs to be extensible, right?  

--g

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