[webkit-dev] WebKit Icon license?

Wed Mar 24 02:47:38 PDT 2010

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:28 AM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 23, 2010, at 3:25 AM, Jeremy Orlow wrote:
>
> It seems as though we should at very least change the main icon on
> webkit.org to match what is apparently the official webkit logo.  The
> icons for the Mac and Windows nightlies probably needn't change since
> they're run within Safari anyway, but probably the nightly source icon
> should change.  Anyone disagree?
>
>
> There is no official WebKit logo, so I wouldn't make changes based on that
> assumption. What we have is artwork that has been used on various
> WebKit-related sites. It's certainly a change worth considering to create
> and consistently deploy an official WebKit logo. A design contest might be a
> good way to go with that, and perhaps it's something we could discuss at the
> contributor meeting. But I would suggest not messing with the visual design
> of the site in the meantime.
>

Even if no logo is "official", being consistent across the WebKit sites (,
shirts, etc) seems like a good goal.  That said, this certainly isn't an
emergency.  Maybe we should just hold off until the meeting and discuss this
there?

(And if any kind souls would like to make a proposal or two in time for the
meeting, I'm sure that would help the process.)

> Even if we did have an official WebKit logo, it might still make sense to
> have an icon on nightly.webkit.org that matches the icon of the nightly
> launcher, rather than one that matches the WebKit logo. That's assuming we
> don't add any nightly launchers with a different icon (which would
> presumably occur if we had any that launched a browser other than Safari).
>

Agreed.  (That's what I was trying to say.)  Except that the nightly source
would probably use a more generic icon since it's not tied to any particular
"launcher".

> Regards,
> Maciej
>
>
>
> I'll spin up a patch later this week.
>
> J
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> So it would appear then that www.webkit.org and nightly.webkit.org are
>> the odd men out. :)
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Sam Weinig <sam.weinig at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > And our own http://planet.webkit.org/.
>> > -Sam
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Chris Jerdonek <cjerdonek at webkit.org>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>> >> > Interesting.  Looks like the WebKit icon on CIA is different from
>> >> > webkit.org.  I could have sworn they used to be the same:
>> >> > http://cia.vc/stats/project/webkit
>> >>
>> >> That's also the icon used for the WebKit group on LinkedIn:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=91394
>> >>
>> >> [Resent from correct address.]
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > -eric
>> >> >
>> >> > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Kenneth Christiansen
>> >> > <kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org> wrote:
>> >> >> Contest is fine :-) That is how our designers created the Maemo
>> logo:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> https://wiki.maemo.org/Task:maemo.org_logo_contest
>> >> >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo.org_logo_contest_submissions
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm cc'ing Marcelo, who is our Brazilian Head of User Experience and
>> >> >> Design.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Cheers,
>> >> >> Kenneth
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Dimitri Glazkov
>> >> >> <dglazkov at chromium.org> wrote:
>> >> >>> I just reached out to the Russian icon powerhouse, Turbomilk
>> >> >>> (turbomilk.com), and they're interested in pitching in as well.
>> Maybe
>> >> >>> we should have a contest?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> :DG<
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Kenneth Christiansen
>> >> >>> <kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org> wrote:
>> >> >>>> I have asked our designers to look into it :-)
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> Kenneth
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Jeremy Orlow <
>> jorlow at chromium.org>
>> >> >>>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
>> >> >>>>> wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Dimitri Glazkov wrote:
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> > Would you happen to know how WebKit icon is licensed?
>> >> >>>>>>
>> >> >>>>>> The icon currently on webkit.org has the icon for Apple’s
>> Safari
>> >> >>>>>> web
>> >> >>>>>> browser in it. Because of that, Apple has provided no license to
>> >> >>>>>> use the
>> >> >>>>>> icon; we are continuing to use it with informal permission from
>> >> >>>>>> Apple.
>> >> >>>>>
>> >> >>>>> Given that WebKit has been more than just the rendering engine
>> >> >>>>> Safari uses
>> >> >>>>> for quite some time now, I wonder if it'd be worth trying to come
>> up
>> >> >>>>> with
>> >> >>>>> something unique for the project.  One benefit would be that it
>> >> >>>>> could be
>> >> >>>>> used more freely.
>> >> >>>>> Anyone with graphic design skillz going to the WebKit meeting?
>>  :-)
>> >> >>>>> J
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