This is a version of the perfSONAR logo rendered as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) instead of the bitmaps that have been floating around for many years. In February, 2020, the team elected to switch to a newer version with a differnt font that is bolder, better matches the style of the crosshairs and will work better in some media such as embroidery.
The font has been changed the open-source Rabbid Highway Sign II, which better matches the style of the "O". The original appears to have been done with Adobe Myriad Pro, which is proprietary. A copy of the new font is included in this respository.
To install this font:
Building the logo requires a system with the following available at the command line:
- ImageMagick
- Inkscape
- Make
- Tar
- Xsltproc
- Zip
On Red Hat, yum -y install ImageMagick inkscape make tar libxslt zip will
install everything needed.
Run make
The original, complete version of the logo is original.svg.
It was created in Inkscape, and edits should be done there as well. The files contain Inkscape-specific XML but should still work fine with anything that wants to render it.
Because there's no easy, practical way to automatically derive versions of the logo with proper bounding boxes and margins and text converted to paths, the repository includes files where this has been done.
If the logo is changed, follow this procedure to update the files:
- Start Inkscape
- Open
original.svg - Select all text objects
- Convert them to paths (
Shift+Ctrl+C)- DO NOT SAVE
original.svgAFTER THIS POINT.
- DO NOT SAVE
- Make all layers visible
- Open Document Properties (
Shift+Ctrl+D) - Expand _Resize page to content...`
- Make sure all four margins are set to
15.0. - Click Resize page to drawing or selection.
- Save as
parts.svg. - Make the
poweredlayer invisible. - Click Resize page to drawing or selection in Document Properties.
- Save as
parts-text.svg. - Make the
textlayer invisible. - Click Resize page to drawing or selection in Document Properties.
- Save as
parts-icon.svg. - Quit Inkscape