About the 4 Fs

[Paul W. Frields]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 06:49:12PM +0100, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I see the fedoraproject.org logo was updated with 4 Fs. I was just
> wondering if putting the 4Fs' icons instead of the words could give a
> more interesting behaviour to the logo (maybe pointing to the 4fs
> logos meaning).
> 
> I know there are more important discussion on the table and I don't
> want to take more time that this proposal need. I wanted to let you
> know what I feel after I saw the "new" logo.

I think this is a great idea, with only one problem that might make it
not work well.  The designs of the Four Foundations (not 4-Fs please!)
have an emblem and text in each "leaf."  At the size appearing in the
site headers, those two elements would probably be very difficult to
distinguish properly.

I do think there are other places we could be promoting the Four
Foundations, but the official Fedora logo is still what it always has
been -- and wow, is it getting increasingly meaningful! -- and that's
the strongest way to brand our web sites overall.

Gerold Kassube had -- and Max presented -- a superb idea about how to
use the Four Foundations for a rotating set of information supporting
each theme on a regular basis.  This could be integrated very easily
with a content site like the upcoming Zikula or other rotational
system.

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