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Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by zalew »

lasome wrote: post #8

I'd really like to hear their thoughts around the capitalization of GitHub. Everyone who uses git interacts it with it in downcase. To see it upcased like that is unfamiliar.

maybe because the small g is similar to google's.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by ben_straub »

Samuel_Michon wrote: post #36
aviswanathan wrote: post #11

The logotype reminds me of Font Awesome for some reason

It’s probably a tweaked version of Secca Extra Bold or Botanika Bold. Compare and contrast: http://imgur.com/hdcz2Sd (Top: Botanika, middle: GitHub, bottom: Secca)

It's Apex Sans: http://vllg.com/Constellation/Apex_Sans

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by philipwalton »

dangrossman wrote: post #41
philipwalton wrote: post #30

Does anyone else notice the striking similarity between the new Enterprise design and Bootstrap? I guess that's what you get when you hire Mark Otto. https://enterprise.github.com/ http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/

They built the page with Bootstrap. Almost all the CSS classes are provided by it. What's wrong with that?

I wasn't suggesting anything's wrong with it. Certainly the creator of Bootstrap has liberty to copy himself. I guess I'm just a little surprised he didn't want to showcase his variety.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by frazerb »

I'm a little surprised by the striking similarities between Octocat and the "Octonauts" (www.octonauts.com) - a cartoon in the UK that my two kids are mad about.

I'm trusting that these copyright/design right concerns have been contemplated at least - not least because of the similarity in name as well as in design.

(See the google images link for a collection of octonauts: http://goo.gl/Xek21)

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by instappen »

While I love GitHub, and I use it on a daily basis... I'm really confused how news like this gets to the very top, but other submissions (many highly technical) sometimes barely get 5 votes. I'll get off my soapbox now.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by aspir »

frazerb wrote: post #55

I'm a little surprised by the striking similarities between Octocat and the "Octonauts" (www.octonauts.com) - a cartoon in the UK that my two kids are mad about. I'm trusting that these copyright/design right concerns have been contemplated at least - not least because of the similarity in name as well as in design. (See the google images link for a collection of octonauts: http://goo.gl/Xek21 )

If the Octonauts wikipedia page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Octonauts) is correct, the show's airing was 2 years after the founding (and copyrighting of the octocat) of GitHub

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by markdotto »

mimiflynn wrote: post #45
wilfra wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

-Very similar logotype -Signup form on the right, with huge signup button -Tons of whitespace w/ 'floating' elements -Footer styled very similar -Same location on the page and method of promoting their paid product -etc

Looks pretty twitter bootstrap like, if you ask me. I feel that a lot of designs are ending up like this due to bootstrap influence, which, might be influenced by dropbox for all I know.

I wrote all the styles for Bootstrap and refactored GitHub's forms and buttons a few months ago for a similar approach. Not 100% the same, but definitely close. All those styles are tested thoroughly within Bootstrap and made it super easy to update and standardize our styles, while at the same time dropping mad duplicate code.

The overall homepage though I think looks nothing like Bootstrap's docs, if that's what you're implying. Also, Bootstrap, and GitHub, was not influenced by Dropbox. We just iterated on that stuff internally in a pull request and shipped when we were happy with it.

Re: New GitHub Logo

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Post by Oompa »

ctdonath wrote: post #46

What's the story behind Octocat? That...thing...doesn't really do much for me as far as a corporate logo goes. Rather complex shape (see references to scaling problems), sorta catish but not, WTH is that weird tail (cat, four legs and a...), this post is the first reference to "octo" I've seen in the months I've used the service, there's 5 limbs not 8, etc. Makes me think of a little kid in a Halloween costume. "Gith…

It was a stock image that started on the 404 page. People loved it, so the octocat started showing up in more and more places and then grew to become the logo.
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