A license file should be added to the repository to specify the licensing of the nixos images, logo, files, etc.

Example: Can I use these files to make my own stickers? Put it on pamphlets? etc.

Hi, we are Weijia Wang & Jonathan Ringer, the release managers for NixOS 24.05 ("Uakari").

The next NixOS release is planned for the end of May 2024, you can see the full schedule NixOS/nixpkgs#303285.

The animal for this release is a uakari.

cc @riotbib

Here is what the NixOS logo lockup looks like on the nixpkgs README with GitHub dark mode enabled:

retrieved from https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs

Would it be possible to make a logo lockup that can work with dark and light mode? Perhaps the letters can have a light gray stroke around them?

expected: 1 KByte @ https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/nixos/nixos-icon.svg

actual: 26 KByte @ https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/blob/master/logo/nix-snowflake.svg

inkscape svg is very verbose

I was surprised that the logo is very close to square but it is not square. Is this intentional? Would a logo revision that makes it square be welcome?

Hello there! I am release manager for this 23.05, nice to meet you all.

The next NixOS release is planned for the end of May 2023.

The animal this time is supposed to be a… stoat? (I learnt this new word in English.)

@ardek66 @rwxg @mogorman does anyone of you would be interested to produce a new logo?

Now that NixCon Paris 2022 is over. Does it make sense to try and collect the coming, and previous, logos used during these conferences? As they are derivatives of the official logo.

cc: @RaitoBezarius @garbas (all the previous edition organizers)

We should make a nice and entertaining slide-show to capture the attention of persons who are walking by a stand and are willing to stop watch some animated content promoting Nix / NixOS / NixOps.

I've made theme for a slim display manager.
https://github.com/jagajaga/nixos-slim-theme
It was added to nixpkgs https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/d3c7ecb2fde917e0f5400ecf235abaab51bef25d/pkgs/applications/display-managers/slim/themes.nix#L176
Should I add it here?

We need a logo for 20.09

cc @mogorman

I found this amazing design on Twitter:

I think it should be in here.

cc @domenkozar

This is a follow up to the discussion on the mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16520.html

There are a number of versions of the logo floating around, and no font is used consistently for "NixOS".

@gfsmonk has proposed some alternatives: https://github.com/gfxmonk/nixos-logo-ideas/tree/master/exports

The main issue with the current logo is the colors (IMO). The standard version http://nixos.org/logo/nixos-logo-only-hires.png is mainly blue, with some red. This can either look like purple or blue depending on the monitor, or the printing process. To work around this, a people who have printed their own t-shirts/stickers/banners etc. have chosen alternative colors (generally blue, rather than purple). A number of people have also used a purely black logo on a white background, and a purely white logo on a black background.

A designer at FOSDEM (@plastelina) told me that it should be pretty easy to pick out suitable colors and ensure they are consistent on all media. I know she had some ideas for the logo too, but ran out of time to complete them. Perhaps she can help us out here, or we can get help from some others at @opensourcedesign.

The initial font used for the NixOS logo was Myriad Web Pro, which is a proprietary font (used by Apple). Currently on nixos.org Liberation Sans is used, which is pretty generic. It would be great to adopt a Free font which is distinctive and suitable for the project.

It would be great to solve these issues (perhaps by choosing one of @gfxmonk's designs + a font), and it would make it easier for people to design consistently branded NixOS swag \o/

The artwork should use new Logo. Then we should bump package in nixpkgs.

Hey there,

I had some free time today so I decided to redesign the logo, what are your thoughts?

Example propaganda image:

Logo (png):

Banner (for github readme):

This is a vector (svg) so you can scale it at any size. You are free to do whatever you want with it (if you don't think it is too ugly haha), that's a gift for this awesome OS that I'm using everyday!

edit: svg download link hosted by @Leo-Lahti

Hi. I was trying to find information about who designed the current logo, but I've been unsuccessful so far. Can anyone point me to some information about the current design/branding, it's origins/designer? Thanks.

I'm noticing in the 19.09 release there's artwork for the news item NixOS/nixos-homepage@a5626c7#diff-9cdc6434d3e4fd93a6e5bb0a531a7c71. I don't think we have this 😦

cc @samueldr @edolstra

Can we upload your logo to wikimedia? @timbertson
I want to link it in the wikipedia article.

Or sign-off for the default directory license?

I've just installed NixOS on a system with a 4K screen and the default wallpaper looks a bit blurry as its being upscaled from 1080p. Obviously I can change the wallpaper trivially but given the increasing prevalence of 4K displays it would be nice to have some crisp native-res wallpaper out of the box :-)

I aim for something very simple, without over-extending.

• A kde wallpaper, also for the installer
• A gnome wallpaper, I've done it already here http://oi59.tinypic.com/ekez5w.jpg
• A grub background

Additional wallpapers for display managers and other desktop managers are of course welcome.

I have some content that might fit this repository.

• Nix Stickers files (illustrator CS5 format, can be converted to svg but might lose some information in the process such as cut lines)
• A few wallpapers (I am not a graphist and made them quickly, so they are very simple with a relative quality)

Is it the place to share it?

It would be nice to have simple guidelines in the readme explaining:

• Accepted resource types(wallpaper, DM themes, ...)
• File format and other details that might important (image size for wallpapers)
• contributing rules

Hello, I have made 2 badges for projects included in Nixpkgs.

Check them out down below:

Light

Dark

NixOS Discourse Thread: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixpkgs-package-badges/
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/dch82/Nixpkgs-Badges/

Thanks!
I was thinking about including these in the NixOS-artwork repo!

Hi everyone! I am the primary release manager for NixOS 23.11.

The next NixOS release is planned for the end of November 2023, you can see the full schedule here.

The animal for this release is a tapir.

cc @riotbib

Describe the bug

The NixOS Logo is not clearly visible in dark mode in GitHub

Steps To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to appearance in GitHub
2. change it to dark mode
3. see the bug

Expected behavior

I expect the logo to be seen more clearly.

Screenshots

Not needed since it can be reproduced by anyone just follow the steps I have above.

Additional context

Add a sticker like effect to make it support dark mode too

The next NixOS release is planned for the end of November 2022.

The animal this time is supposed to be a raccoon.

@mogorman Would you be up for that?

Going forward, it would be best if every contribution is specifically licensed under a license, whichever it is. This issue lists license and attribution issues. This is only a partial duplicate of #17, #17 is where an actual license for the repository should be discussed.

The logo's license and attribution is known. Nix-dev mailing list, Sun Oct 2 08:49:55 CEST 2016.

Unknown original source

No specific license or attribution

Ideally, we'd need these authors to specify a license under which the artwork can be used, and hopefully re-mixed. The contributions looked original enough to not cast any doubt about who the authors were. It is assumed the contributor is thus the author.

@cillianderoiste

• No specific license, all rights reserved @cillianderoiste. PR #10
  • swag/flyers/happier-hacking/flyer-multi.pdf
  • swag/flyers/happier-hacking/flyer-optimized.svg
  • swag/flyers/happier-hacking/Readme.md

@jagajaga

• No specific license, all rights reserved @jagajaga. PR #2
  • grub-background/grub-1.xpm

@robberer

• No specific license, all rights reserved @robberer. PR #5
  • common/wallpapers/nixos-border.png
• No specific license, all rights reserved @robberer. PR #4
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-1.png
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-1.xcf
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-2.png
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-2.xcf
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-3.png
  • common/grub2-background/grub-nixos-3.xcf

Known attribution / license

These files are not problematic with regards to the license or attribution.

Specified (new) attributions

Hi, according to https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-artwork/blob/master/CONTRIBUTORS.md#mogorman the logo for release 17.09 and 18.03 is under cc0, what about the following releases?

Originally posted by @Ninlives in #23 (comment)

cc @mogorman

NixOS/nixpkgs#46997
NixOS/nixpkgs#46997 (comment)

cc @samueldr