The Haiku merchandise range has just been expanded!
A couple of new designs have been added, such as the boot screen, the upright leaf favicon, the 3D “H” and good old Walter (apologies to @dcatt for taking so long to get this done!). The store is also now selling organic tote bags made of natural fabric.
As a reminder, Haiku’s merchandise partner, Freewear, ships to most places around the world, and donates a portion of all proceeds to Haiku, helping contribute to costs such as domain and server hosting, development contracts and more. You can also shop in your preferred currency, with a wide range of currencies available - just change your currency using the selector on Freewear’s website.
I’m curious, I made myself a cup with the Haiku boot logo once. The problem back then was that the image in haikus sources was only a bitmap graphic, and not too big. In theory sources to compose it as a vector graphic might exist.
Was the Boot logo here done as a vector graphic, to get a higher resolution bitmap to print? or did this just use the “normal” boot logo bitmap?
I’ll have to ask Freewear, as they added the boot screen design themselves - I only provided the files for the upright Haiku leaf, the 3D “H” and the Walter logo.
I’m pretty sure we have the Wonderbrush file for that.
This logo really insists on appearing everywhere despite being just the icon for the Haiku3D application
Why not WebPositive or some other application icons? Out of all the fun icons we have, why is it always this one, the most boring and uncreative of all them, that gets printed?
@nephele I asked Freewear and they said I provided the boot logo design to them some time ago. I did some digging and it seems like it was a recreation by someone from the community which was made in 2021, back when the Freewear store was first set up. It seems to be all of the individual elements as SVGs or PNGs pieced together to create a replica of the boot splash.
I thought it’d be nice to have a few different designs that represent Haiku’s various logos/identities. I’d love to have a WebPositive design and agree that it would look great on merch, but I just couldn’t find an SVG or high-definition PNG anywhere. Any help with this would be appreciated.
I really would like to do more application icons as designs, but it becomes a bit complex because WB files don’t seem to convert to SVG very well (they lose some of the gradients and shadows), which makes it hard to source proper SVG files to send to Freewear.
(sorry for github link, cgit seems to be down currently).
That is irrelevant because the icons are icon-o-matic file, not Wonderbrush files. As far as I know, Icon-O-Matic files should export to SVG without too much problems (the other direction can be more difficult). Or alternatively they can be rendered as high resolution PNG using the command line tool designed for that. Do you have specifications for what Freewear needs? Last time we checked with them, they were doing screen printing which means no gradients. Did the situation change?
Are the Icon-O-Matic files in the main Haiku repository? I always just looked at the unofficial Haiku icons repository, which only provides the icons in WB format, so I assumed that was the original format they came in.
Edit: never mind, I’ve found them now. Will try to export and see how it goes.
Apologies, I probably should have said something about this, but yes, they’re now using a different printing technique (DTF) which allows for more refined colours and gradients, though each design still needs to be checked to ensure that it’s feasible and will print as expected. Ideally we provide them with an SVG but if we can give them a high quality PNG, then they will accept this too.
That’s the file I was looking for but had not found.
Anyway, this is not a vector graphic. Yes it is a Wonderbrush file but it is made up of bitmaps for the individual icons.
For my cup I rendered this x2 with pixel scaling, which looked okayish. But having this as a vector graphic would be much better.
