Overall I would say this is pretty “fair use” of our logo but if you want an official approval: as part of Haiku, Inc. I approve the use of our logo on the RISC-V site.
But please let’s use an official and decent SVG version, likely the one with black text on a transparent background. The converted one does not look good, as has been noted.
Also if we need an official square logo we should make one. I do kind of like the Haiku 3D inspired one but probably an easier one would just be the H of the official logo.
I was told the square logo isn’t the official logo and is not to be used (though I like it more since it looks like Haiku icons). There isn’t an SVG version available suitable for use on a white background, so I made one best I could. The RISC-V website says the logo has to have the project name in the website, so the just the H logo wouldn’t work either.
Could you make an SVG logo suitable for a white background?
You can download that and use it. If you need something you can hot link to we can add it as a file on the website. Right now the website only has the white version in SVG, here (just as an example of the URL):
What’s the issue with using the existing square one linked above? It’s in the style of the official “Haiku” logo, practically a cut out of the “H” spanning two low hills to be a bit more dramatic…
The Wonderbrush file also has a layer with the Haiku name, that might come in handy in some situations:
This one was also used in several runs of stickers, and is also now our logo in rEFInd (with an added shadow matching the style of other logos in their default theme).
So, yes, if the inc makes a square logo official, I’d prefer this one
This 3D logo is a “retrofit” of BeOS logo to isometric icon style. Be didn’t use it as a logo this way, only when they needed their logo as an icon (for example as a bookmark icon)
This has too much going on to be easily readable at smaller sizes. For a square logo, either use just the H with the leaf or only the leaf. The H is recognisable enough on its own as Haiku IMHO. Anyways, the regular logo is also rather readable at smaller resolutions too.
But we are not BeOS, we are Haiku. I think it’s wrong to copy everything and make everything look like before. Haiku is a standalone product and has its own history. You have to accept that.
I like the haiku logo and don’t see anything obnoxious about it. Also, I don’t think it’s nice how the work of those who designed it is done badly with such statements.
