Re: Corporate design - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

I've forward the message to -www ... thanks :)

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, elein wrote:

> OK.  Here are the colors of the elephant only:
> This is what I do know about the blue color:
>
>        H:207 S:65% B:56%
>        R:50  G:102 B:144
>        C:86% M:59% Y:26% K:7%
>        Number: 326690
>           Pantone: 542
>
> Other than these colors I used only black and white.
>
> Can someone get this information on the web by the images
> and let the esteemed image builders know what they are
> if necessary?  (Maybe just copy this message to www--I'm
> not following www these days.)
>
> --elein
>
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:15:37PM -0800, elein wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 07:28:55PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>>> Over the weekend I was at a regional "Linux" event and it struck me that
>>> we have an underspecified and poorly enforced corporate design.  Sure
>>> we have a logo, and we often use the color blue, but we need to be more
>>> specific.  I'm thinking we need to specify
>>>
>>> - logo
>>> - color (exact RGB/CMYK/XYZ values)
>>> - font (preferrably one that is available to the public)
>>> - list of recommended slogans with exact spelling
>>>
>>> This could be a page on the web somewhere that designers of merchandise
>>> can refer to.  That way, next time we have CDs, pins, brochures,
>>> stickers, posters, and business cards make by six different people,
>>> they all look the same nevertheless.
>>>
>>> Comments?
>>>
>>
>> This is a very good idea.  I used the pictures from the logo
>> site for the pins.  In the process I had to dig up the color
>> values.  We need the RGB and pantone values.  Most software
>> does not do pantone.  I'll see if I can find the pantone
>> value I used unless someone else gets it first.
>>
>> --elein
>>
>>> --
>>> Peter Eisentraut
>>> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
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