This is the canonical location of the NixOS logo, affectionately called the Nix Snowflake.
A logo with the baked-in outline is made available and is recognized as the de-facto version of the logo, since the font's exact revision, for its metrics and the software used to produce the outlines is unknown. Using a recent revision of the font with a recent inkscape produces different outlines.
The font used is Vegur, a CC0 font. The revision used is one of the harder to find revisions, either 0.601 or 0.602.
Do note that the original logo as designed has manually positioned O and S, and a manually transformed O shape.
The manual adjustments have been faithfully re-created over the existing
de-facto version of the logo in nixos.text.svg if it can be useful. The main
idea behind the adjustments seems to keep the round letters narrower (letters
like O and C). The file has been built expecting the Vegur602 font family
instead of the Vegur font family. Such a font family can be built using the
derivation and source files provided in the font folder.
The exact code for the colours:
- Light blue: #7EBAE4
- Dark blue: #5277C3
The logo has a baked-in shadow that may cause issues when using an eye dropper tool, or when imported in some software with worse support for SVG.
Please make sure that the colours are the right one, and that the shadows are baked-in as expected.
The svg source files have a logo-guide and those with text a guide layer. Ensure the snowflake has at least the given margin with any other elements with other elements when used. The source SVG files with text already have the margin baked into the files.
When used on a dark background, use the white variant of the logo. If you need the text too, import it from the other variant and change its colour to white, keeping the spacing exact.
This variant is monochrome, with the shadow gradients baked-in as opacity changes.
The SVG files in this directory are the authoring files.
In other words, they are busy with inkscape-specific properties, used when editing the files.
If what is needed is a file optimized for size, and for using as an asset, the Nix expression in this directory can be used to produce optimized SVGs.
The logo is made available under a CC-BY license.
Logo designed by Tim Cuthbertson (@timbertson)