OpenSSL Logo (was: New GitHub Project Landing Page)

[Paul Yang]

As far as I know the original intended logo is not the HelveticalNeue-Light one (the one currently on openssl.org).

Long time ago someone has designed a logo with the font similar to the one I printed on the stickers and that logo has also been used in some other places during that time. I think you can still found that version on Goolge.

But the original high resolution version of that logo was lost for unknown reason. So the openssl.org <http://openssl.org/> has no choice to use a text-based version of the logo, with the HelveticalNeue-Light font.

The logo in the ‘.ai’ file I mentioned previously is actually one reissued version of the 'correct-but-lost’ version. It was created by ‘hand-imitating’ the low-resolution image files found on Google…(that was in around 2018 IIRC and I asked a BaishanCloud UED guy to help on the reissue task ;-).

Regards,

Paul Yang

> On Feb 27, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Matthias St. Pierre <Matthias.St.Pierre at ncp-e.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> The openssl.svg was chosen to match the current logo at
> 
> https://www.openssl.org/ <https://www.openssl.org/>
> 
> as close as possible. According to the style sheet, the font of the logo
> is HelveticaNeue-Light.
> 
> https://github.com/openssl/web/blob/master/inc/screen.css#L131-L158 <https://github.com/openssl/web/blob/master/inc/screen.css#L131-L158>
> 
> While I'm not opposed to brush up the OpenSSL logo, I think this can't
> be done simply be replacing it on the fly. I think this requires a general
> discussion among the team members and finally an OMC decision,
> and shouldn't be rushed. Because after all, the shape of the logo is an
> essential part of the OpenSSL 'trade mark'.
> 
> If we we want to brush up the Logo, we should give everybody time to come up
> with proposals and then have an open contest, ideally among all committers,
> not only OMC or OTC.  (And you can be sure, I will come up with a proposal ;-) )
> 
> Finally, the OMC can run a vote, for example whether to pick the winner of the
> contest or to leave the logo as it is.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> On 27.02.20 09:58, Paul Yang wrote:
>> Sent
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Paul Yang
>> 
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>>> On Feb 27, 2020, at 3:15 PM, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com <mailto:tmraz at redhat.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Could you, please, send me the .ai file? I'll try converting it. Is the
>>> font freely available?
>>> 
>>> Tomas
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 2020-02-27 at 14:17 +0800, Paul Yang wrote:
>>>> The logo could be changed to the 'correct-font' version -as the one
>>>> printed on the stickers I brought to Nuremberg
>>>> 
>>>> I have an '.ai’ image file at hand an I think someone needs to figure
>>>> how to extract the image then include it in the markdown file...
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Paul Yang
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