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Use a different icon to generalize brand icons #372

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Yahweasel opened this issue Nov 3, 2021 · 3 comments
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Use a different icon to generalize brand icons #372

Yahweasel opened this issue Nov 3, 2021 · 3 comments

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@Yahweasel
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I'm getting extremely gritty and pedantic with trademarks here, but, on the ForkAwesome web site, the icon dropdown, the Facebook logo is used to generalize brand icons:

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The concept of brand icons is not owned by Facebook or vice versa, so this is not a legal use of Facebook's logo; Facebook does not represent the entire concept of brands (as much as they might like to). Usually I would ignore something like this, but it's a bit ironic since the brand icons section does have correct instructions on trademarks, which the very same site violates («Please do not use brand logos for any purpose except to represent that particular brand or service.»).

@DougInAMug
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Thanks @Yahweasel ! Use violation + free advertising, no thanks.

Do you have a suggestion for what could be best used instead? The Trademark symbol seems appropriate to me.

@Yahweasel
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The trademark symbol seems sensible, yeah. A fun alternative could be the ForkAwesome logo itself.

@JulianWebb
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I think using the forkAwesome logo would be a better choice as while a branding is likely trademarked, it wouldn't be a good example of the category. That or use the branding for an Open Source project the team supports (with permission).

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