Re: [Design-team] Fedora, and the fedora
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 11:06:09PM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
[...snip...]
I will also note that Red Hat, excepting the considerably minor
'no-hats' requirement, has bestowed upon this community design team a
commendable degree of freedom in determining the Fedora project's brand,
look, and feel. Red Hat funded the design of the Fedora logo and an
initial set of usage guidelines to set us off on the right foot, but
from there they have not only agreeable but encouraging us to set a
direction for Fedora's signature artwork and other branding collateral.
I'm very grateful for Red Hat's trust in us as a community to take
proper care of the Fedora brand.
Máirín, this was a great summary and I appreciate your taking the time
to write it. I also wanted to point out that from my perspective,
Fedora has worked long and hard to establish our brand and the values
that underlie it. The logo also has a quite interesting history
behind it, and a lot of thought went into its design.[1] Fragmenting
the Fedora brand by using something other than the simple, powerful
logo we've come to know and love would be quite a step backward!
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[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/History
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