[Fwd: Re: [freegeek-startup] logo]

[Nick Keiser]

Here it is. Typeface for the city name is Bitstream Vera Sans bold at 
20pts at the given size (this of course will vary with additional 
scaling), tracked out as far as seemed reasonable for the wordlength and 
centered under the words "FREE GEEK". I'm not sure what PDX used for 
"FREE GEEK" originally; for the SVG, I hand-traced the letters. The 
bottom inner-curve of the G is actually slightly distorted, but I opted 
to leave this defect in so as to discourage anyone from using the logo 
at a size so large that it's obvious (which would be pretty garish in 
the first place given that it's a logotype, is big and blocky, and 
fairly high-contrast!).

And also because I'm lazy.

Or, for a rational excuse:

Given my design education, I find logos interesting, but given my 
semi-rejection of design culture itself, I also consider them strictly 
functional. No sense splitting pubes. ;)

HTH,

-Nick Keiser
nick at freegeekchicago.org



Mark Dickson wrote:
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> Subject:
> Re: [freegeek-startup] logo
> From:
> Mark Dickson <mark at freegeekchicago.org>
> Date:
> Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:22:52 -0500
> To:
> Making new Free Geeks outside of PDX <startup at lists.freegeek.org>
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> To:
> Making new Free Geeks outside of PDX <startup at lists.freegeek.org>
>
>
> Hey Scott,
>
> We actually do have a nice high res SVG--and you can just replace
> "Chicago" with "Columbus".  I'm not sure exactly what the rules are for
> those of us who formed before the whole franchise thing--but I'd wager
> that the logo is reserved for official FGs or, in our cases, pending FGs
> (i.e. general approval, app submitted, etc).  Mothership?  Thoughts in
> this?  Is it cool that we nabbed your logo and modified it?
>
> In any case, I'm forwarding this to Nick, who made the SVG, and he'll
> probably send you the logo.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>   

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