Project:Artwork/Artwork

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This page is about logos and graphical building blocks related to Gentoo Linux.

Note: For compositions like wallpapers and buttons please see Gentoo Branded Artwork, instead.

Note: If you consider creating artwork for Gentoo, please also check out the Gentoo Color Palette.

Larry the Cow


As to current best knowledge Larry was first introduced to Gentoo by Daniel Robbins by the graphic above around 2002-01-02. All of these heads originate from a font labeled Font Heads created in 2000 by Ethan Dunham of Fonthead Design licensed under the End User License Agreement (EULA) of Fonthead Design.

Of those heads only the cow was integrated with the gentoo.org website — in the about section, the 404 page and to accompany certain news posts — under the name of "Larry the Cow".

On 2004-11-25 Matteo "Peach" Pescarin introduced a version of Larry with body, originally showing an udder. Due to a discussion about the gender of Larry, Matteo decided to remove the udder.

On the right a re-paint with body of 2004-04-18 by Manuel "Nefarius" Zwerenz can be seen. Original female edition by Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Male edition by Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Re-paint by Manuel "Nefarius" Zwerenz licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

As Matteo traced Larry's head from a small bitmap back then, Larry's head has a distinguishable look in his version, best noticed side by side. Also, there is an alternative re-trace by Alex Legler. Both his and Matteo's version have been used in print. Initial version by Ethan Dunham now available under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Re-traced successor by Ethan Dunham and Matteo Pescarin licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Alternative re-trace by Ethan Dunham and Alex Legler licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

On request of the Gentoo Foundation, Fonthead Design Inc. gave written permission to use the original artwork of Larry the Cow (letter "s" of font Font Heads) under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license on 2011-05-31.

Related: Ripple icons
These icons appear at the front page of gentoo.org next to a news item. The original artwork was done by Daniel Robbins, vector remakes were created by Sebastian Pipping. Ripples Larry by Ethan Dunham and Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Ripples Gentoo

by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

Note: Please note that the SVG of Ripples Gentoo is linking to [[Media:gblend.png|gblend.png]] internally and therefore depends on that file.

Znurt and his shadow
While Znurt also appears on the Gentoo main page, his shadow is known from a previous design of Gentoo's bugzilla instance only.

Separate graphics for each of them are available. The original artwork was done by Daniel Robbins, vector remakes were created by Sebastian Pipping. Znurt by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Unnamed black thing by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

Both SVGs and PNGs are licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike.

Vector version "g" logo
Lennart Andre Rolland has created a vector version of the "g" logo which is widely used by now. There also is a vector version by Matteo "Peach" Pescarin. Below you can see them side by side for comparision with the original Blender version created by Daniel Robbins. Blender version by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0 	Vector version

by Lennart Andre Rolland licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Vector version dark/mono by Lennart Andre Rolland and Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 Blender version by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Vector version plain by Matteo Pescarin licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5 	Vector version initial by Matteo Pescarin licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

Gentoo/FreeBSD logo
The Gentoo/FreeBSD project has its own variation of the "g" logo. Gentoo/FreeBSD logo by Marius Morawski licensed under GNU GPL 2.0

Gentoo/OpenBSD logo
The Gentoo/OpenBSD project has its own variation of the "g" logo created by Dawid Węgliński in 2007. Gentoo/OpenBSD logo by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CC-BY-SA/2.5

The blue "g" logo
TODO

The red "gentoo" logo
Again, original artwork by Daniel Robbins. Rendering of gentoo3.blend by Gentoo Foundation, Inc. licensed under CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0

It is possible to render this logo as a transparent PNG with custom resolution.

Procedure:
 * Get a copy of gentoo3.blend.bz2 (licensed under CCPL-Sampling-Plus-1.0) and unpack it using bunzip2
 * Pass it to Blender (package ) for rendering, details below
 * Apply post-processing
 * Apply Autocrop Image in GIMP
 * Add Adam7 interlacing for web display
 * Optimize file size using OptiPNG losslessly

Blender can be made to render from the command line as follows:

The script gentoo3.py is used to customize rendering parameters. We are using a hard-coded resolution of 800x600 in this guide.

gentoo3.py