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This is neat, but as a designer I would be very wary about more explicitly allowing anyone to use my logo without adhering to the standards of the branding syst
by justinph 14y ago
This is neat, but as a designer I would be very wary about more explicitly allowing anyone to use my logo without adhering to the standards of the branding system. Most brands have extensive guidelines on how logos can and cannot be used. Nothing in this proposal helps make sure that guidelines will be adhered to, and in fact makes it easier for them to be violated.
The easiest and most egregious use I could anticipate is not using proper white space, which almost every logo requires. Example:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Clear_space https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Clear_sp...
- chaz 14y agoPeople are already abusing your logos. At least this would reduce some of the poor attempts to extract a logo off of your website's navigation.
- mattmcinerney 14y agoAs a fellow designer who spends a lot of designing these guidelines, I've thought about how to include these but it does hurt the idea of making it automated. If this proposal is to remain in it's simplest form, it would require the default logo selected to be one that is as flexible as possible and would require the design to possibly build in the space required, background color, etc. There may also be room for additional tags that would describe the usage i.e. rel="logo grayscale" or rel="grayscale knockout"