Project:Artwork/Artwork

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gentoo/FreeBSD logo
The Gentoo/FreeBSD project has its own variation of the "g" logo.



Gentoo/OpenBSD logo
The Gentoo/OpenBSD project has its own variation of the "g" logo created by Dawid Węgliński in 2007.

The blue "g" logo
To render the Blender-based "g" logo of 2013 you need:
 * A version of Blender between 2.04 and 2.31a (inclusively)
 * A version of Python between 2.0 and 2.2 (inclusively)
 * Blender source file g-metal.blend
 * Reflection texture metallandscape1.jpg

The mentioned software can be installed through the blender-gentoo-logo overlay. For more details, please check the related tread on the gentoo-dev mailing list.

The red "gentoo" logo
Again, original artwork by Daniel Robbins.

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 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.