[Ambassadors] Organizing Fedora swag a bit better

Nikos Roussos nikos at autoverse.net
Wed Mar 21 16:07:26 UTC 2012


On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Christoph Wickert <
christoph.wickert at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 21.03.2012, 10:16 -0400 schrieb Tom Callaway:
> > I'm passing this along for Máirín Duffy, she tried to send this, but it
> > didn't make it to the list. Please be sure to CC her on replies.
> >
> > -------- Forwarded Message --------
> > From: Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>
> >
> > Hi Ambassadors,
> >
> > I think our swag design files are a bit all over the place; I thought it
> > would be a good idea to organize them a bit better and provide some
> > print-ready artwork so you don't have to worry about bleeds, CMYK
> > colors, or font embedding when you want to send something to a vendor to
> > get it produced.
>
> Hi Máirín,
>
> thanks for bringing this up. While it is not strictly related to this
> I'd like to point out another problem again. No vendor accepts CMYK, at
> least here in the EU they all want Pantone. We had this with media and
> with stickers, in fact I am not aware of a single item where we did not
> have this problem. If it's just the Fedora logo colors, this is easy,
> but for more difficult artwork, we continue to have problems.
>
> Kind regards,
> Christoph
>

I don't know about the rest of EU, but at least in Greece most vendors ask
mostly for CMYK, or RGB if it's something they can print it digitally (ie.
stickers).

-- 
Nikos Roussos <http://autoverse.net>
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