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Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#11

Post by shii »

I've always wanted a bright orange shirt (#ff6600) like the default topcolor with a nice large Y on the front.

I'm wondering if there is a trademark that would prevent someone from designing and selling one (even after explicitly stating no affiliation/connection with YC.)

Wikipedia Commons[1] says Jessica designed it and has trademark restrictions however...

EDIT:

Followed the rabbit-hole and found this: http://ycombinator.com/legal.html which states This image of our logo is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

..I unfortunately am not familiar with that license, but after reading up on it[2], it would seem fair game, as long as the person(s) gave attribution to Jessica/YC.

Anyone have any counterpoints/corollaries to prove me utterly out of touch with everything, or am I correct in my understanding here?

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Y_Combinator_Logo_400.gif

[2]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#12

Post by chwahoo »

apgwoz wrote: post #6
chwahoo wrote: post #4

Cool idea, I'd be interested in something like that too, although not out of any implied association with YC (the VC firm). More because I'm a student in a PL group :). However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too!

> However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too! The font is FF Meta, the same font used in the Y Combinator (VC) logo. It's unfortunate that the Y-Combinator is so long. I tried to kern so it would fit in a single line but be big enough to see on a shirt. Not sure that I succeeded exactly; maybe not ba…

I haven't seen the shirt that inspired you, so my opinion probably isn't so useful.

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#13

Post by apgwoz »

chwahoo wrote: post #12
apgwoz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> However, there's something about the font/position of the logo...err.. expression on the shirt that doesn't quite appeal to me. Maybe I'll have to design one too! The font is FF Meta, the same font used in the Y Combinator (VC) logo. It's unfortunate that the Y-Combinator is so long. I tried to kern so it would fit in a single line but be big enough to see on a shirt. Not sure that I succeeded exactly; maybe not ba…

I haven't seen the shirt that inspired you, so my opinion probably isn't so useful.

I think I've seen people affiliated with YC with a shirt that just has the orange box with a Y on it.

Other YC shirts I know of: "make something people want", and when you get acquired, you get "i made something people want"

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#14

Post by apgwoz »

kevinburke wrote: post #9

Any chance I could get one in orange instead of black?

You could, but the type is on an orange background, so I'd have to upload a just white design, which I can't do at the moment. If you want, ping me and I'll do it later. (my email is in my profile)

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#17

Post by acangiano »

apgwoz wrote: post #10
acangiano wrote: post #8

For those interested, that's a $5.60 markup. Pretty honest IMHO. EDIT: I was mistaken. It's a different type of shirt, so the markup is even less!

Actually it's not. It's 17.40 base price for the American Apparel shirt (which I made so I could buy, since that's my preference), so it's a $2.60 markup.

Even at $5.60 it would have been totally fair. Kudos to you for making it available to others for so little.

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#18

Post by thematt »

shii wrote: post #11

I've always wanted a bright orange shirt (#ff6600) like the default topcolor with a nice large Y on the front. I'm wondering if there is a trademark that would prevent someone from designing and selling one (even after explicitly stating no affiliation/connection with YC.) Wikipedia Commons[1] says Jessica designed it and has trademark restrictions however... EDIT: Followed the rabbit-hole and found this: http://ycom…

They're sold out at the moment, but I bought one here: http://hackertees.com/

Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.

#19

Post by apgwoz »

acangiano wrote: post #17
apgwoz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually it's not. It's 17.40 base price for the American Apparel shirt (which I made so I could buy, since that's my preference), so it's a $2.60 markup.

Even at $5.60 it would have been totally fair. Kudos to you for making it available to others for so little.

It took about 30 minutes to do--and, that long because I had to trace a few glyphs from FF Meta (the font) in Inkscape, since I don't own it. I'd be absolutely thrilled if enough people bought one so that mine is free, but, I'm not expecting that to happen.

The other shirts in that shop were marked up to donate to random open source projects. I think all together, I maybe gave $30-40 away from those sales?

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