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NixOS Logo
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This is the canonical location of the NixOS logo, affectionately called the
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*Nix Snowflake*.
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Technicalities
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### Font
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A logo with the baked-in outline is made available and is recognized as the
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*de-facto* version of the logo, since the font's exact revision, for its
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metrics and the software used to produce the outlines is unknown. Using a
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recent revision of the font with a recent inkscape produces different outlines.
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The font used is *[Vegur](http://dotcolon.net/font/vegur/)*, a CC0 font.
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The revision used is one of the harder to find revisions, either 0.601 or [0.602](https://web.archive.org/web/20120828195558/http://www.dotcolon.net:80/font/?id=vegur).
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Do note that the original logo as designed has manually positioned O and S, and
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a manually transformed O shape.
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The manual adjustments have been faithfully re-created over the existing
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de-facto version of the logo in `nixos.text.svg` if it can be useful. The main
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idea behind the adjustments seems to keep the round letters narrower (letters
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like O and C). The file has been built expecting the **Vegur602** font family
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instead of the *Vegur* font family. Such a font family can be built using the
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derivation and source files provided in the font folder.
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### Using the logo
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The svg source files have a *logo-guide* and those with text a *guide* layer.
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Ensure the snowflake has at least the given margin with any other elements with
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other elements when used. The source SVG files with text already have the
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margin baked into the files.
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License
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The logo is made available under a [CC-BY license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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* [Nix-dev mailing list, Sun Oct 2 08:49:55 CEST 2016](https://nixos.org/nix-dev/2016-October/021876.html)
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Credits
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Logo designed by Tim Cuthbertson (@timbertson)
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