[CMake-Promote] Tracking the logo

[William A. Hoffman]

At 03:51 PM 12/17/2005, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

>The logo quality also needs to be improved.  There is noticable "ringing" in the logo of the cmake.org homepage; at present, high-res is clearly not high-quality.

I am not sure I agree, the hi-res is very clear if you view it at its native resolution.
However, if you resample an image, text always gets some noticeable artifacts.  We have
the photoshop file here, so we can generate the log at any size needed.

>If we pick a simple name for the CMake logo file, like CMakeLogo.gif or whatnot, then as people adopt and display those logos, we can search 'em via Google.  For this to work, it's important to pick logo filenames that are consistent with common banner logo conventions, and are also simple in their own right.  Looking at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates/homepage I'm a little confused as to how many standard conventions there are.  I believe I've read that 80x15 is a common size, but clearly there's a graphic design learning curve to go up here.  Firefox is waving way, way too many buttons under people's noses for our purposes.  I will attempt to decode the general canon of logo button web design, such as it may be, and will report back.

I will wait to see what sizes you need, and we can put them on the web page.

-Bill