Logos 2.0

[jdorfman]

There is a great Open Source project called instant-logos that allows you to search (e.g. Linux) for basically any logo and you then download a png or svg. I suggest we fork it for the following reasons:

• Only allow Open Source logos
• License for the logo (e.g. CC BY 3.0)
• Copyright Holder (e.g. Acme Software Foundation)
• Designer (e.g. Jason Long)
• Make it work on GitHub Pages (less maintenance)
• Replace Ads with links to donate to (fill in the blank) Foundation

We can also just partner with Instant Logos.

Thoughts?

cc: @auremoser

[simonv3]

Hmm, I was going to suggest joining forces but it looks like there's no way to easily contribute to the actual website, which is how I would suggest adding those extra details.

[jdorfman]

@simonv3 am I being too ambitious?

[simonv3]

@jdorfman I don't think so! I think this could also very easily be powered with just a jekyll site running on GitHub where the repository with the images is the canonical truth and there's a pretty front-end. It's just a shame that we can't make those tweaks to the original instant-logos site. Though maybe the author is down for talking? I don't know them, so I'm hesitant to @ mention them in this thread.

[jdorfman]

@simonv3 I will reach out

[elioqoshi]

That's a great idea! Count me in!
Also, let's make sure the logos are added in SVG format, properly minified.

[jdorfman]

Still waiting to hear back

[auremoser]

Thanks @jdorfman sorry for the delay. Not sure what you've all decided but I can bring someone from Fairpixels (see #4) into the thread if you'd like, they spoke on a Mozilla Community Call.

I'm fine with helping to combine with Instant though, looks rad. But if you want to go the gh-pages route we could probably do something simple and static with cards...like Airport Codes or FlatUI colors where we just tile the logos and make them available for download. Maybe we do a 'best of' site with the tope 20, every month or so, pulling from the most recent additions to all these sources.

[jdorfman]

@auremoser I really dig Airport codes, especially since the search engine uses all metadata.

Any others you recommend?

[jdorfman]

Not sure what you've all decided but I can bring someone from Fairpixels (see #4) into the thread if you'd like, they spoke on a Mozilla Community Call.

More the merrier. =)

[saiichihashimoto]

Hey yall! @cameronrohani, @marcomarandiz and I made Instant Logo Search. We made it and, after awhile, moved on to other things. But we still have much love for it and would LOVE to see people contribute to it. Sorry for the delay.

instant-logos is a repository for the logos. InstantLogoSearch is the actual website. The latter uses the former and a lot of the implementation isn't best (or if having separate repos was a good idea at all), but we made it as quickly as we could. There's a huge laundry list of things we'd love to do (use webpack, host straight from github pages, TONS more logos, etc). It's currently a mess, but it shouldn't be difficult to clean up.

We thought about adding licensing, copyright, designs, etc. and we decided not to do that. Websites that serve a similar use case are usually super cluttered. We don't have a million ads or a bunch of the stuff they do, but we took the opposite extreme of having the meanest cleanest instant logo machine. So we stripped EVERYTHING that wasn't that. Even now, if we were to redo it, we may have erred on not doing the bucket functionality and maybe adding it when it seemed necessary. We'd like to keep it that simple.

We want it to stay clean, simple, and very single purposed.
We also want the listing to be as expansive as possible.
We also see your use case as valuable and it would be awesome to support it, somehow.

Something that does those things AND encourages collaboration is what I'd say we aim for. Maybe have instant-logos and then add links on InstantLogoSearch to the github pages? Something.

I'll let @cameronrohani & @marcomarndiz chime in here. Seeing InstantLogoSearch live on would be awesome.

[marcomarandiz]

I'm with @saiichihashimoto on this one. Simple is key - it's what made us so widely successful initially.
I'd like to hear how this open source version of Instant Logo Search logos and metadata might be different from ClearBit. It would give more context for this continued conversation.

[jdorfman]

@saiichihashimoto @marcomarandiz I (now) agree with you regarding keeping it simple. Plus Wikipedia already does an amazing job of keeping that information, which would just be overlap:

via: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnu-30-banner-without-background.svg

Regarding ClearBit, I totally forgot about that service. Maybe we are trying to reinvent the wheel or going down the xkcd/927 road:

Need to rethink this one.

[saiichihashimoto]

xkcd, making our problems relatable. :-)

I just want to reiterate: It would be amazing to have your logos and our logos not just overlap but be the same. Having your work just show up on instantlogosearch and vice versa would be amazing. If there's work needed in our repos to get that going, let's discuss it.