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Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
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Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#32Cool 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…
FF Meta is a nice typeface, but I don’t think it works especially well for math, especially the roman font, since math is typically set in the italics of some serifed face. It’s especially rough with the tracking so tight (around the '.'s there’s nowhere near enough space) and with the parentheses vertically aligned to match uppercase letters.
Example: http://i.imgur.com/lr5VW.png
Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#33Cool 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…
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Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#34Just bought a red one in Small. I'm a girl, BTW. Great work. Thanks !
Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see why not...you can trademark a fruit(apple) and a a color(pink).
Sure, he does infringe by using the color and the font of YC. But the YC gang know better than to shut down their loyal fanbase.
And even if they were that silly, I'd be pretty confident that a fair use defense (parody) would hold up here, if something so ridiculous were actually to go to court.
Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see why not...you can trademark a fruit(apple) and a a color(pink).
Sure, he does infringe by using the color and the font of YC. But the YC gang know better than to shut down their loyal fanbase.
By that logic everyone that uses Helvetica in Black on a white background should be sued by American Apparel.
As far as I know, trademarks can cover the proportions of the logo. So, if I created an orange square, put a lambda in it (using the same font) and ensured the padding around the lambda was pinpoint accurate, that'd totally be infringement.
About the only thing that I'm being sketchy on is the use of the Y Combinator name. I tried to use Y-Combinator, when referring to math, and Y Combinator when referring to the company, but the line is a bit blurry...
Re: Show HN: I've always wanted a Y Combinator shirt, so I made one.
#37I always wanted to make a quine t-shirt, something like
A t-shirt with the following sentence followed by its quotation: "A t-shirt with the following sentence followed by its quotation:"