We need a logo

[Jaykul]

What do you think of this?

[jrich523]

The text should be level, its just slightly off and it looks weird.. also, having the git orange in there would give it a little bit of life

[KirkMunro]

I like the first one better. And if you want to be true to git, use the Adelle font (which is apparently the font that the git logo was designed with).

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On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Justin Rich notifications@github.com wrote:

The text should be level, its just slightly off and it looks weird.. also, having the git orange in there would give it a little bit of life

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[Jaykul]

OK, I found the Adelle font and lined them up....

[Jaykul]

Or we could go with the sunset theme ;-)

[Jaykul]

What if I make the "git" font the same size as the "PS"

[Jaykul]

Two tone icon? I'm reluctant to go full PowerShell on that icon and give it the "gel" look with gradients in three different directions and glowing white shadows ...

[Jaykul]

OK, not that reluctant, here's a more PoweShelly icon ;-)

[Jaykul]

Or we could have all of the above! Hmmm, maybe not. I don't think I like this one as much as any of the others.

[bobfrankly]

Here's my two cents, or images in their oversize-edness:

[Jaykul]

That's a cute idea -- would it break if we tilted the whole thing to match the actual PowerShell logo?

[jrich523]

That looks good, what about making the >_ blue?

or even pushing the > inside (on top) of the git logo

[bobfrankly]

Asked and answered. If you have a specific blue in mind, hex me.

The Blue inside makes me think of ordering pizza...

[jrich523]

338ce7

that should be it i think

[bobfrankly]

With 338CE7 Blue. Most of the powershell logos seem to have gradient forms of a darker and lighter blue. It's not going to meld perfiectly with the flat orange of the GIT logo.

[Jaykul]

I don't think that's the right shade at all @jrich523 -- but it doesn't really matter, because those colors are awful together :stuck_out_tongue:

I tried a version where I tilted the git logo to match the tilt on the PowerShell logo, but it doesn't look right either. Here's a disposable version

[bobfrankly]

Another log on the fire...

[Jaykul]

Oh, how about if I make it sublter ...

[bobfrankly]

Messing with Paletton: http://paletton.com/palette.php?uid=3070u0kpcu7fvGmkExttCq3vCk-

[bobfrankly]

Last iteration I'll throw up for now.

[Jaykul]

Maybe start from the PowerShell blue and force the orange to adapt instead? http://paletton.com/palette.php?uid=33F0K0kWQgnSBuMUBo1XralY33j

[Jaykul]

Might be better to change the colors to be more complementary, but I like this look :-)

[mwjcomputing]

This looks sweet.

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[KirkMunro]

Why is there a white gap in the blue that is behind the Git portion of the logo?

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Matt Johnson notifications@github.com wrote:

This looks sweet.

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[Jaykul]

Hehe, I wondered if that would bother anyone. It's because the blue is exactly the same shape as the orange.

[KirkMunro]

No, not the top left one..the other one in the middle (partly behind the git "dot" on the right).

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Joel Bennett notifications@github.com wrote:

Hehe, I wondered if that would bother anyone. It's because the blue is exactly the same shape as the orange.

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[bobfrankly]

@KirkMunro It's as he said, the blue is just a cloned copy of the orange, as there is a line of transparency in the orange, there is also on in the blue. Because of the offset of the blue, it shows in that "git dot" on the right.

@Jaykul I saw it, but as we're just tossing ideas around, I wasn't going to make a fuss unless it was the final version.

[Jaykul]

I could make a version with the blue layer not having the git branch cutout ... or slide it over so the edge of the branch shows at the top of the orange ...

I could also swap the blue for the "real" color of the ps host background ... #012456, but if we did that, I think we would need to change the orange to that split-complement orange #821400 or at least darken it to #CB2000

Edit: I thought that Github did color swatches like slack:

[KirkMunro]

Ok, I get it now. 😊

I like the logo btw, but the orange color feels a little too peachy to me.

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@KirkMunro It's as he said, the blue is just a cloned copy of the orange, as there is a line of transparency in the orange, there is also on in the blue. Because of the offset of the blue, it shows in that "git dot" on the right. @Jaykul I saw it, but as we're just tossing ideas around, I wasn't going to make a fuss unless it was the final version. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[bobfrankly]

of course, we're all arguing over shades of color on un-calibrated screens. If we're really going to do this, we should all have some S5X100s. I nominate Jaykul for funding :laughing:

[Jaykul]

Blue corrected ...

[Jaykul]

split-complement orange (Ok, I think we can all agree that's a disaster)

[Jaykul]

That's #CB2000 ...

I don't know about you guys, but the more I look at this, the more I like the lighter blue I was using before.

[Jaykul]

So yeah, how about this:

We can use just the icon part when we want that

[jrich523]

i like this last one and the one you commented "blue corrected", i think i like the blue corrected one better, bit more bold and sharp, this one is a bit softer, both are good, just leaning more towards the bold

[KirkMunro]

I'm liking the bold as well. The other feels too "faded" to be a logo.

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Justin Rich notifications@github.com wrote:

i like this last one and the one you commented "blue corrected", i think i like the blue corrected one better, bit more bold and sharp, this one is a bit softer, both are good, just leaning more towards the bold

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[jrich523]

so i think we agree on that as a style, and just need to pick between the "blue corrected", which we can refer to as the bold, and then the above one, the soft...

so thats 1 for soft (jaykul) and 2 for bold

bob the monitor is a valid point, with my 3 monitors, the soft one looks a tad more bold on one of them, however its the older more inaccurate one :)

[bobfrankly]

I'm in the "blue corrected" camp. It's not so much that it's "bolder", as it is that the blue and the orange appear to have matching saturation values (I'm a photoshop/photography nerd, also explains the monitor calibration knowledge :)

[Jaykul]

In #CB2000 they have (almost) matching saturation (I thought it was exact, but I used an RGB approximation): Blue: RGB: 1 36 86 HSL: 215° 98% 17% Orange: RGB: 203 32 0 HSL: 9° 100% 40%

In Blue corrected they're further off (same blue, less saturated, but lighter orange):

Blue: RGB: 1 36 86 HSL: 215° 98% 17% Orange: RGB: 245 77 39 HSL: 11° 91% 56%

And of course, in the others, the blue much less saturated (and also slightly more red/green): Blue: RGB: 40 80 121 HSL: 210° 50% 32%

[Jaykul]

So how about if I make the Orange match the saturation exactly?

Blue: #012456 RGB: 1 36 86 HSL: 215° 99% 34% Orange: #f52f02 RGB: 245 47 2 HSL: 11° 99% 96%

I also cleaned up the text a little (recreated it from the font) and made the _ underbar go where the font would put it (although I rounded it, the Adelle underbar is rectangular).

[catthehacker]

Contrast is a bit off and it hurts. Imho it's time to drop serif fonts. How about using microsoft/cascadia-code or tonsky/FiraCode?

[scrthq]

@CatTheHacker - super thread resurrection, but it's using the same font as the Git logo itself... Anyway, Fira Code bare came into existence before this thread was last updated and Cascadia Code obviously didn't exist yet

[catthehacker]

@CatTheHacker - super thread resurrection, but it's using the same font as the Git logo itself... Anyway, Fira Code bare came into existence before this thread was last updated and Cascadia Code obviously didn't exist yet

True, I didn't noticed the dates and I just jumped in to thread... Anyway, what is your point?

[scrthq]

@CatTheHacker My point is that the font chosen is purposeful (same or close to the same font as the existing Git logo), not preferential