GRASS-Wiki - User contributions [en]

Color tables

2020-08-10T14:40:08Z

⚠️Vincent: added a trick to handle GRASS color rules export to QGIS

== About ==
Color tables live in <tt>$GISBASE/etc/colors</tt> (see [http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/gis/colors/ SVN])

== Modules ==

* {{cmd|r.colors}} ({{cmd|r.colors}} manual in GRASS 7 has colors tables embedded as well as the GUI dialog)
* {{cmd|r.colors.stddev}} ([http://hamish.bowman.googlepages.com/grass_color_maps samples])
* {{cmd|r.colors.out}}
* {{cmd|r3.colors}}
* {{cmd|r3.colors.out}}
* {{cmd|v.colors}}
* {{cmd|v.colors.out}}

* {{cmd|d.legend}}
* {{cmd|d.colortable}}

=== Addons ===

* User contributed color rules in the [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.colors.tools/palettes GRASS Addons repository]
* Convert from [[GMT]] color tables with {{AddonCmd|r.cpt2grass}}
* Use {{AddonCmd|r.colors.quantiles}} to create raster colors rules based on ''n''-quantiles. It uses the [[GRASS_and_Rstat|R and the spgrass6 package]].
* Use {{AddonCmd|r.colors.out_sld}} to export GRASS raster colors rules in OGC SLD template v1.0.0 XML format for Geoserver and the ilk
* Use {{AddonCmd|r.colors.out_vtk}} to export GRASS raster colors rules for use with VTK-based visualization software.

== Repositories ==

* There is an online colormap repository with many fine [[GMT]] (and many others) gradients at
: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/

* There are a number of command line tools for working with the GMT .cpt files at
: http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/cptutils/

== Examples ==
=== Built in ===

The numeric values of following color tables can be found in the [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/lib/gis/colors/ here]

[[Image:Colortable_aspect.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_aspectcolr.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_bcyr.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_bgyr.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_byg.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_byr.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_celsius.png|center]]


[[Image:Colortable_corine_clc.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_curvature.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_differences.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_elevation.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_etopo2.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_evi.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_grey.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_grey1.0.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_grey255.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_gyr.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_haxby.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_ndvi.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_population.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_precipitation.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_rainbow.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_ramp.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_ryb.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_ryg.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_sepia.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_slope.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_srtm.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_terrain.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_wave.png|center]]

=== Addons ===

These user contributions can be found in the [https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.colors.tools/palettes GRASS addons SVN repository]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_chl_etc.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_sst.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_GMT_ocean.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_roygbiv.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_high_intensity.gcolors.png|center]]

[[Image:Colortable_palette_low_intensity.gcolors.png|center]]

* ''The script used to create these thumbnails can be found on the [[Talk:Color_tables|discussion page]].''

== Using GRASS color palettes in QGIS ==

Most of them can already be found there, you just have to hunt for them. In the raster layer properties window's style tab, select "Singleband pseudocolor" as the type, "Generate new color map", "New color ramp", for ramp type choose "cpt-city", change to the "Sort by Author" tab, and look for "grass". They can also be found in the QGIS section cpt-city's QGIS theme.

If there's a new set of color rules which are not in [[QGIS]], you can prepare a .svg palette file for use with QGIS using the following commands. Consider to then open a ticket in the QGIS issue tracker asking them to add it (and attach the file of course to save someone some work :)

You will need the [http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/jjg/en/code/cptutils/ ''cptsvg'' command line tool from cptutils] and the GRASS 6 addon module {{AddonCmd|r.out.gmt|version=64}}.

Examples:
<source lang="bash">
g.region n=100 s=0 w=0 e=100 res=1
r.mapcalc "dummy = row()"

r.colors dummy color=roygbiv
r.out.gmt dummy out=roygbiv
rm roygbiv.grd
cptsvg --geometry=300x45 -o roygbiv.svg -v roygbiv.cpt

r.colors dummy rules=~/grass/svn/grass-addons/grass6/raster/r.colors.tools/palettes/palette_sst.gcolors
r.out.gmt dummy out=palette_sst
rm palette_sst.grd
cptsvg --geometry=300x45 -o palette_sst.svg -v palette_sst.cpt
</source>

You can then copy the resulting .svg file into <tt>/usr/share/qgis/resources/cpt-city-qgis-min/grass/</tt> on Linux (or <tt>C:\Program Files\QGIS VERSION\apps\qgis\resources\cpt-city-qgis-min\grass\</tt> on MS Windows).

Another solution to export raster color tables is to slightly tweak the output of {{Cmd|r.colors.out}}, in order to provide QGIS with a regular color chart source file. It might be handy when dealing with maps produced by {{Cmd|r.composite}}, i.e. unregistered color charts. The example bellow may be adapted to ones needs (here the alpha channel defaults to 255):
<source lang="bash">
r.colors.out map=my_raster rules=~/in.colors
cat in.colors|sed 's/:/,/'g|sed 's/ /,/'g|awk 'BEGIN {FS=",";OFS=","};{print $1,$2,$3,$4,255,$1}'>out.colors
</source>

== Loading QGIS color palettes into GRASS ==

The GRASS GIS addon module {{AddonCmd|r.cpt2grass|version=7}} can be used after the ''svgx'' command line program from the <tt>cptutils</tt> package, using [[GMT]]'s .cpt color table format as a go-between:

<source lang="bash">
svgx --output dkbluered.cpt --type cpt /usr/share/qgis/resources/cpt-city-qgis-min/h5/dkbluered.svg
r.cpt2grass in=dkbluered.cpt output=dkbluered.gcolors
</source>

You can then use the *.gcolors file with the {{Cmd|r.colors}} rules= option (or set the color rules directly from the ''r.cpt2grass'' module).

[[Category: Documentation]]
[[Category: Colors]]
[[Category: VTK]]
[[Category: QGIS]]

Identity

2017-12-07T12:55:44Z

⚠️Vincent: add a short section for Code Sprint events

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS GIS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==

===Graphics===

''January 2015‎: ''

[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] (also [https://grass.osgeo.org/download/logos/ here]) is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was re-vectorized by Markus Neteler in 1998 from a rasterized master file (for his master thesis)
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

alpha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.

===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- row A: white background, potential thin black border;
- row B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- row C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- row D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- row E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- row F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

Given latest requests, here are three extra png banners:

[[File:Banner_1.png|200px|center|Alegreya Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_1_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_2.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_2_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_3.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, lowercase]]
[[File:Banner_3_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]

== GRASS GIS sticker==
=== Objective ===
GRASS GIS users may need to display a short information about the use of the software in their projects. It might be useful to propose a normalized sticker for that.

=== Proposals ===
Usually these tags are composed with freehand lettering, we propose this sticker:
[[File:Powerby_freeh.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

But one can prefer keeping close to the more sober identity and compose the slogan in garamond:
[[File:Powerby_typo.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

The following graphics could be used on map compositions:
[[File:Mappedwith_freeh.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]] [[File:Mappedwith_typo.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

Additional (derived) graphics are gathered in this array:
[[File:Powerby_synth.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposals for GRASS GIS stickers]]

== GRASS GIS / OSGeo Code Sprint visual ==
Trying to stick to OSGeo guideline, we propose the following logo setup for a reference to code sprints (feel free to modify if you consider this event should not be considered a so called ''local chapter'' of the OSGeo chart).
[[File:GRASS GIS Code Sprint 2018.png|thumb|center|]]

= Selected startup banner =

On Feb 6, 2015 (commit {{rev|64480}} the banner was uploaded to the source code. Related files:
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.png gui/images/startup_banner.png]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.svg gui/images/startup_banner.svg]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.txt explanations]

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASS GIS Code Sprint 2018.png

2017-12-07T12:54:33Z

⚠️Vincent:

a visual for this event

SpatiaLite

2017-02-02T16:55:24Z

⚠️Vincent: added a brief section describing how to use gdal Rasterlite driver

== Spatialite ==

A {{Wikipedia|SQLite}} database with geospatial extensions, much list [[PostGIS]] is to {{Wikipedia|PostgreSQL}}. To export a vector map layer to a Spatialite database with v.out.ogr, use the SQLite [[OGR]] driver and set the SPATIALITE data creation option to "yes". Raster can be exported to a Spatialite database with r.out.gdal, using the Rasterlite format driver.
==== Vector maps ====
===== New database =====

v.out.ogr in=mymap output=mydbase.sqlite format=SQLite \
type=area dsco='SPATIALITE=yes' output_layer="mymap"

===== Existing spatialite database =====
Note that you need to use --overwrite, otherwise v.out.ogr will complain that the output already exists. Using --overwrite should maintain the existing tables in the spatialite database. However, it is strongly suggested to run this on a copy of the database, or make sure you have a recent backup.

v.out.ogr -u in=mymap output=mydbase.sqlite format=SQLite \
type=area dsco='SPATIALITE=yes' output_layer="mymap" --overwrite

====== Using QGIS (1) ======
An alternate way is to load the layer in QGIS's GRASS toolbox, then right click on the layer name and select "Save As...".

====== Using QGIS (2) ======
Open the layer in QGIS using the browser panel. Next, open the spatialite database in the QGIS DB manager and use the 'import layer' option to import the grass vector layer you just opened in QGIS into the spatialite database.

==== Raster maps ====
Given an existing <var>mydbase.sqlite</var> file, and a Byte type rastermap <var>myraster</var>, invoking the following command will incorporate myraster to mydbase.sqlite as a LZW compressed PNG image :
r.out.gdal input=myraster output="RASTERLITE:mydbase.sqlite,table=myraster" format=Rasterlite type=Byte createopt="DRIVER=PNG,COMPRESSION=LZW"
For more information on the Rasterlite driver, have a look a [http://www.gdal.org/frmt_rasterlite.html gdal documentation].

Note: the GDAL Rasterlite driver does not implement the SetProjection() method, thus srid value in the geometry_columns table will be set to -1 instead of a valid srid (12345 in the following example). You'll probably have to set it manually within the database:
spatialite mydbase.sqlite
.head on
select srid from geometry_columns where f_table_name='myraster_metadata';
update geometry_columns set srid=12345 where f_table_name='myraster_metadata';
.exit

[[Category:FAQ]]

Identity

2016-05-23T08:05:59Z

⚠️Vincent: added more suggestions to /* Proposals */

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was redigitized by MN in 1998 from a raster master.
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- raw E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

Given latest requests, here are three extra png banners:

[[File:Banner_1.png|200px|center|Alegreya Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_1_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_2.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_2_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_3.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, lowercase]]
[[File:Banner_3_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]

== GRASS GIS sticker==
=== Objective ===
GRASS GIS users may need to display a short information about the use of the software in their projects. It might be useful to propose a normalized sticker for that.

=== Proposals ===
Usually these tags are composed with freehand lettering, we propose this sticker:
[[File:Powerby_freeh.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

But one can prefer keeping close to the more sober identity and compose the slogan in garamond:
[[File:Powerby_typo.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

The following graphics could be used on map compositions:
[[File:Mappedwith_freeh.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]] [[File:Mappedwith_typo.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

Additional (derived) graphics are gathered in this array:
[[File:Powerby_synth.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposals for GRASS GIS stickers]]

= Selected startup banner =

On Feb 6, 2015 (commit {{rev|64480}} the banner was uploaded to the source code. Related files:
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.png gui/images/startup_banner.png]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.svg gui/images/startup_banner.svg]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.txt explanations]

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:Powerby synth.png

2016-05-23T08:01:51Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of File:Powerby synth.png

File:Powerby synth.png

2016-05-23T07:59:19Z

⚠️Vincent:

Identity

2016-05-23T07:51:37Z

⚠️Vincent: add a section dealing with "Powered by GRASS" sticker

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was redigitized by MN in 1998 from a raster master.
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- raw E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

Given latest requests, here are three extra png banners:

[[File:Banner_1.png|200px|center|Alegreya Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_1_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_2.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_2_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_3.png|200px|center|Fira Sans, lowercase]]
[[File:Banner_3_alpha.png|200px|center|transparent]]

== GRASS GIS sticker==
=== Objective ===
GRASS GIS users may need to display a short information about the use of the software in their projects. It might be useful to propose a normalized sticker for that.

=== Proposals ===
Usually these tags are composed with freehand lettering, we propose this sticker:
[[File:Powerby_freeh.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

But one can prefer keeping close to the more sober identity and compose the slogan in garamond:
[[File:Powerby_typo.png|100px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "powered by..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

The following graphics could be used on map compositions:
[[File:Mappedwith_freeh.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #1 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]] [[File:Mappedwith_typo.png|200px|thumb|center|Proposal #2 for "mapped with..." GRASS GIS sticker]]

= Selected startup banner =

On Feb 6, 2015 (commit {{rev|64480}} the banner was uploaded to the source code. Related files:
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.png gui/images/startup_banner.png]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.svg gui/images/startup_banner.svg]
* [https://svn.osgeo.org/grass/grass/branches/releasebranch_7_0/gui/images/startup_banner.txt explanations]

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:Mappedwith typo.png

2016-05-23T07:46:16Z

⚠️Vincent: Proposal #2 for "mapped with..." sticker

Proposal #2 for "mapped with..." sticker

File:Mappedwith freeh.png

2016-05-23T07:44:14Z

⚠️Vincent: Proposal #1 for "mapped with..." sticker

Proposal #1 for "mapped with..." sticker

File:Powerby typo.png

2016-05-23T07:41:41Z

⚠️Vincent: Proposal #2 for "powered by..." sticker

Proposal #2 for "powered by..." sticker

File:Powerby freeh.png

2016-05-23T07:39:02Z

⚠️Vincent: Proposal #1 for "powered by..." sticker

Proposal #1 for "powered by..." sticker

File:Flyer gray 0.pdf

2015-08-26T09:28:47Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Flyer 0.pdf

2015-08-26T09:28:07Z

⚠️Vincent: first proposal

first proposal

Identity

2015-02-05T15:30:41Z

⚠️Vincent: syntax

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was redigitized by MN in 1998 from a raster master.
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- raw E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

Given latest requests, here are three extra png banners:

[[File:Banner_1.png|100px|center|Alegreya Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_1_alpha.png|100px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_2.png|100px|center|Fira Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_2_alpha.png|100px|center|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_3.png|100px|center|Fira Sans, lowercase]]
[[File:Banner_3_alpha.png|100px|center|transparent]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

Identity

2015-02-05T15:28:33Z

⚠️Vincent: banners update

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was redigitized by MN in 1998 from a raster master.
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- raw E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

Given latest requests, here are three extra png banners:

[[File:Banner_1.png|100px|left|Alegreya Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_1_alpha.png|100px|left|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_2.png|100px|left|Fira Sans, capitalized]]
[[File:Banner_2_alpha.png|100px|left|transparent]]
[[File:Banner_3.png|100px|left|Fira Sans, lowercase]]
[[File:Banner_3_alpha.png|100px|left|transparent]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:Banner 3.png

2015-02-05T15:15:10Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of "File:Banner 3.png"

File:Banner 2.png

2015-02-05T15:14:01Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of "File:Banner 2.png"

File:Banner 1.png

2015-02-05T15:12:45Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of "File:Banner 1.png"

File:Banner 3 alpha.png

2015-02-05T15:08:59Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Banner 3.png

2015-02-05T15:08:45Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Banner 2 alpha.png

2015-02-05T15:08:28Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Banner 2.png

2015-02-05T15:08:06Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Banner 1 alpha.png

2015-02-05T15:07:46Z

⚠️Vincent:

File:Banner 1.png

2015-02-05T15:05:35Z

⚠️Vincent:

Identity

2015-02-05T07:02:26Z

⚠️Vincent: /* Proposals */

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.
: Background info: the logo was redigitized by MN in 1998 from a raster master.
[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: same sort of scene but in top view, on white or transparent background;
- raw E: grayscale grassy world, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw F: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|450px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

Talk:Identity

2015-02-05T06:55:12Z

⚠️Vincent: splashes synthesis updated with top view grassy world

File:GRASSGIS splash synthesis.jpg

2015-02-05T06:51:10Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of "File:GRASSGIS splash synthesis.jpg"

Fifteen solutions to various options mixed together.

Identity

2015-01-30T21:34:38Z

⚠️Vincent: added three welcome banners suggestions

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: the same image in grayscale, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw E: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The following three banners go respectively with columns 1, 2, 3 of the array above.

[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_synthesis.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome proposals]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASSGIS welcome synthesis.jpg

2015-01-30T21:32:40Z

⚠️Vincent: Three GRASS GIS welcome proposals

Three GRASS GIS welcome proposals

Identity

2015-01-30T21:18:50Z

⚠️Vincent: reordering things for a vote

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. To comply with GRASS GIS license these must be ''open source'' fonts.
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized or not. Composed either in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans Fira Sans], or in [http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/alegreya-sans Alegreya Sans]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably rather light, to a very classical Garamond. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase is discussed, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned them into an acronym (we pronounce it), which does not need to be full-capitalized, except the first letter.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
After several tests, we put things together in an array:
- col 1: capitalized title, fontface Alegreya Sans, text and tagline beside logotype;
- col 2: partially lowercased, fontface Fira Sans, stacked centered layout;
- col 3: lowercase title, fontface Fira Sans, flushright/flushleft positioning.

- raw A: white background, potential thin black border;
- raw B: metaphoric background image (to be refined, potential restricted rights), white graphics+lettering;
- raw C: 3d composition showing a virtual grassy world map, white graphics+lettering;
- raw D: the same image in grayscale, black and green graphics+lettering;
- raw E: personal image, less iconic than decorative in truth...

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash_synthesis.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash proposals]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design, especially with the splash screen.

=== Proposals ===

The type of banner that will be taken on depends on the choice of the splash screen. The idea is to maintain a graphical coherence.

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASSGIS splash synthesis.jpg

2015-01-30T21:03:25Z

⚠️Vincent: Fifteen solutions to various options mixed together.

Fifteen solutions to various options mixed together.

Identity

2015-01-30T12:11:14Z

⚠️Vincent: added a welcome banner and two splashes, after several claims on the ML

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. Add your suggestions...
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized. Composed in [http://www.exljbris.com/fontin.html Fontin] regular, with a slightly negative approach. This font is designed by Jos Buivenga, and is [http://www.exljbris.com/eula.html free].
''Comment by ML: this seems to be free as in free beer, but not as in free speech (no distribution allowed. For an OSGeo project such as GRASS, I would prefer a really free font.''

Yes, I agree. Not that easy to find a fully developed font family (lots of ugly things in fact...). Let's have a look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans this project]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably light, to a very classical Garamond. See below tests number 5 and 6. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase was done on purpose, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned the word into an acronym, which does not need to be capitalized.

The Fira Sans is a nice clean font. GRASS IS an acronym of course (geographic resource analysis support system), but the lower case is fine after all these years and indeed looks good.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
Here are several tests, feel free to add yours of course.

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash1.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with minimalist color logo+text]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash2.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, metaphoric background image (to be refined)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash3.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, variation in the layout, personal background image (for the record)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash4.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, grassy world map background image (made from scratch in Blender)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash5.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, another attempt with Fira Sans as titling font]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash6.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with color logo+tagline, Fira Sans titling in a more sobre composition]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash7.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen, centered layout, capitalized title]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash8.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen, the grayscale equivalent to the one above]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design.

=== Proposals ===
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner1.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner2.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner with transparency (fails on dark bg desktop themes)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner3.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner, small logo, bigger text, works on every background tone]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner4.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS welcome window with banner, small green logo, big green text, white bg.]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner5.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|Latest welcome banner.]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASSGIS welcome banner5.jpg

2015-01-30T12:09:23Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS GIS welcome banner

GRASS GIS welcome banner

File:GRASSGIS splash8.jpg

2015-01-30T12:03:31Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS GIS splash screen, centered layout, capitalized title, grayscale version

GRASS GIS splash screen, centered layout, capitalized title, grayscale version

File:GRASSGIS splash7.jpg

2015-01-30T12:02:33Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS GIS splash screen, centered layout, capitalized title

GRASS GIS splash screen, centered layout, capitalized title

Identity

2015-01-29T13:42:34Z

⚠️Vincent: added a welcome banner, according to font switch.

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. Add your suggestions...
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized. Composed in [http://www.exljbris.com/fontin.html Fontin] regular, with a slightly negative approach. This font is designed by Jos Buivenga, and is [http://www.exljbris.com/eula.html free].
''Comment by ML: this seems to be free as in free beer, but not as in free speech (no distribution allowed. For an OSGeo project such as GRASS, I would prefer a really free font.''

Yes, I agree. Not that easy to find a fully developed font family (lots of ugly things in fact...). Let's have a look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans this project]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably light, to a very classical Garamond. See below tests number 5 and 6. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase was done on purpose, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned the word into an acronym, which does not need to be capitalized.

The Fira Sans is a nice clean font. GRASS IS an acronym of course (geographic resource analysis support system), but the lower case is fine after all these years and indeed looks good.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
Here are several tests, feel free to add yours of course.

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash1.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with minimalist color logo+text]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash2.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, metaphoric background image (to be refined)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash3.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, variation in the layout, personal background image (for the record)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash4.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, grassy world map background image (made from scratch in Blender)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash5.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, another attempt with Fira Sans as titling font]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash6.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with color logo+tagline, Fira Sans titling in a more sobre composition]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design.

=== Proposals ===
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner1.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner2.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner with transparency (fails on dark bg desktop themes)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner3.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner, small logo, bigger text, works on every background tone]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner4.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|Latest welcome window with updated banner, small green logo, big green text, white bg.]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASSGIS welcome banner4.jpg

2015-01-29T13:39:05Z

⚠️Vincent: Latest welcome window with updated banner.

Latest welcome window with updated banner.

Identity

2015-01-28T20:50:23Z

⚠️Vincent: added reference to Firan Sans open source font project.

= The need of a visual identity=
GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash screen (and welcome banner). The full thread is [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html there].

This page is intended to initiate a place where tests and suggestions could be gathered.

== Logotype ==
===Graphics===
[http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_Logo GRASS official logo] is a great starting point, as it has been here for ...ever?
Given the original vector file is somewhat irregular (twisted diamond, doubled vertices in grass, overlapping shapes) a ''cleaned'' light version is proposed.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_color.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, color version]]

For consistency, it is important to use this logo ''as is'', i.e. not being tempted to distort it by any trick (shadows, bump mapping, blur, differential rescaling,...).

Itemisation should be limited to: 
* black (and grayscale) version;

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_gray.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, grayscale version]]

* white version, in case it should appear over a dark background/image.

[[File:GRASSGIS_logo_white.png|150px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS cleanup logo, white (sort of negative) version]]

===Tagline===
The ''historical'' one was : «The world's leading open source GIS». Several slogans were recently proposed:

- «Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world»;
- «Advanced geospatial technology for everyone»;
- «Opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world».
- ...

== Colors ==
===A grass green...===
The basic green color is defined as follows:

- 0,144,0 (rgb);
- 100,100,44 (cmyk);
- #009000 (html).

aplha channel is set to 1 (no transparency)

===...and a grayscale tone===
When required, a grayscale transposition is applied to green:

*either it is an opaque grey:
- 144,144,144 (rgb);
- 0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #909090 (html),

*or it is multiplied over background, with alpha transparency:
- 0,0,0,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,100,44 (cmyk);
- #0000006f (html).

The white version may as well be declined in opaque or transparent, then green is replaced with translucent white:
- 255,255,255,111 (rgba);
- 0,0,0,0,44 (cmyk);
- #ffffff6f (html).

== Typo ==
The logo can come with text. It uses two fonts. Add your suggestions...
===Main font===
GRASS GIS name, capitalized. Composed in [http://www.exljbris.com/fontin.html Fontin] regular, with a slightly negative approach. This font is designed by Jos Buivenga, and is [http://www.exljbris.com/eula.html free].
''Comment by ML: this seems to be free as in free beer, but not as in free speech (no distribution allowed. For an OSGeo project such as GRASS, I would prefer a really free font.''

Yes, I agree. Not that easy to find a fully developed font family (lots of ugly things in fact...). Let's have a look at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fira_Sans this project]. It makes sense to confront a modern sans serif typeface, preferably light, to a very classical Garamond. See below tests number 5 and 6. Changing GRASS GIS to lowercase was done on purpose, my opinion is GRASS initials usage turned the word into an acronym, which does not need to be capitalized.

===Secondary font===
This typeface is used to display additional text, such as a ''motto'' or tagline. It is composed in [http://www.georgduffner.at/ebgaramond/index.html EB Garamond], a font designed by Georg Duffner, inspired by the famous historical typeface drawn hundreds of years ago by Claude Garamond. It is freely available, under the terms of the SIL Open Fonts License (ofl).

= Applications =
== GRASS GIS Splash screen==
=== Objective ===
Please refer to [http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2015-January/073157.html this thread]

=== Proposals ===
Here are several tests, feel free to add yours of course.

[[File:GRASSGIS_splash1.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with minimalist color logo+text]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash2.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, metaphoric background image (to be refined)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash3.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, variation in the layout, personal background image (for the record)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash4.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, grassy world map background image (made from scratch in Blender)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash5.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with white logo+tagline, another attempt with Fira Sans as titling font]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_splash6.jpg|350px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS splash screen with color logo+tagline, Fira Sans titling in a more sobre composition]]

== GRASS GIS Welcome banner==

The welcome banner is the image displayed on top of the Welcome frame that pops up when launching GRASS. This image, if present, should be coherent with the graphic design.

=== Proposals ===
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner1.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner2.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner with transparency (fails on dark bg desktop themes)]]
[[File:GRASSGIS_welcome_banner3.jpg|300px|thumbnail|center|GRASS GIS simple welcome banner, small logo, bigger text, works on every background tone]]

== What next ?==
add your suggestions...

[[Category: Development‏‎]]
[[Category: Branding]]
[[Category: Promotion]]

File:GRASSGIS splash6.jpg

2015-01-28T20:37:46Z

⚠️Vincent: Fira Sans titling font on grayscale bg and green logo/title

Fira Sans titling font on grayscale bg and green logo/title

File:GRASSGIS splash5.jpg

2015-01-28T20:36:39Z

⚠️Vincent: another attempt with Fira Sans as titling font

another attempt with Fira Sans as titling font

Identity

2015-01-28T14:28:10Z

⚠️Vincent: Created page with "= The need of a visual identity= GRASS is still lacking a relevant, well tempered graphical identity. Some proposals are being discussed especially to design a new splash scre..."

File:GRASSGIS welcome banner3.jpg

2015-01-28T14:18:36Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS welcome banner, small logo, bigger text, works on every background tone.

GRASS welcome banner, small logo, bigger text, works on every background tone.

File:GRASSGIS welcome banner2.jpg

2015-01-28T14:16:58Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS welcome banner, minimalist version with transparency (fails on dark bg desktop themes)

GRASS welcome banner, minimalist version with transparency (fails on dark bg desktop themes)

File:GRASSGIS welcome banner1.jpg

2015-01-28T14:14:23Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS welcome banner, minimalist version

GRASS welcome banner, minimalist version

File:GRASSGIS splash4.jpg

2015-01-28T14:12:22Z

⚠️Vincent: GRASS splash screen with a grassy world map as background image

GRASS splash screen with a grassy world map as background image

File:GRASSGIS splash3.jpg

2015-01-28T13:50:03Z

⚠️Vincent: Third splash screen, using white version of logotype+tagline, more personal choice for bg image

Third splash screen, using white version of logotype+tagline, more personal choice for bg image

File:GRASSGIS splash2.jpg

2015-01-28T13:49:00Z

⚠️Vincent: Second splash screen, using white version of logotype+tagline

Second splash screen, using white version of logotype+tagline

File:GRASSGIS splash1.jpg

2015-01-28T13:47:55Z

⚠️Vincent: First minimal splash screen

First minimal splash screen

File:GRASSGIS logo white.png

2015-01-28T12:57:06Z

⚠️Vincent: Vincent uploaded a new version of "File:GRASSGIS logo white.png"

GRASS GIS logotype, cleaned version, white