<div><br></div>On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:38 AM, James Fisher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jameshfisher@gmail.com">jameshfisher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
(For the moment, I'm leaving the can of worms I've opened in the other thread, in favour of getting something done.)<div><br></div><div>I'm proposing that D needs some form of official brand identity. This would include things like:</div>
<div><ul><li>An official logo. I've seen a bazillion around. Something in SVG, appropriate all the way down from posters to icons, would be nice. Variations including a logotype (i.e., including the words "D Programming Language"), at a couple of aspect ratios, would be highly useful.</li>
<li>A color palette. Most obviously, D seems to identify with the dark, Mars red, and a few other colors are floating around. It would be good to get these down in HSL. And RGB, Pantone, whatever.</li><li>Font choice. Arial and Verdana are around as body fonts, Times and Georgia as titling. Obviously this choice should agree with the choice of face for the logotype.</li>
<li>Descriptions at a few different word lengths. With any organization on the web, you have a "brief description" in a million different places. With an evolving project like D, those will get out of date. From experience, I know how useful it is to decide on a promotional description at say, 250 words, 100 words, 25 words, 10 words in length.</li>
<li>Any necessary guidelines on how the above should be used.</li></ul><div>What I'm not proposing includes:</div></div><div><ul><li>Anything revolutionary. D does have a kind of identity built around the Mars theme. It would be a shame to lose heritage here.</li>
<li>Me making executive decisions. This is a collaborative effort as with any other.</li></ul><div>I anticipate this brand identity to be used in at least:</div></div><div><ul><li>The official website.</li><li>The official documentation.</li>
<li>Any satellite sites -- Twitter, etc.</li><li>Any printed promotional material. (Does any exist?)</li></ul><div>I propose this content be maintained in a GH repository, <a href="http://github.com/D-Programming-Language/D-brand-identity" target="_blank">github.com/D-Programming-Language/D-brand-identity</a>. Other repos such as <a href="http://d-programming-language.org" target="_blank">d-programming-language.org</a> can then include it as a git submodule.</div>
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</blockquote></div><br>Hi,<div><br></div><div>Just for comparisons, I've added some more variations, just playing around with the text that might be in proximity (hash tag, couple variations including "programming language".)</div>
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<div><a href="http://envisionic.com/images/d-logo-draft-2.png">http://envisionic.com/images/d-logo-draft-2.png</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div>