The GNU Art Gallery

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Beside the Art on these GNU Web pages, we at the GNU Project have the Art:

GNU Art on this Site

Please note the graphic style guidelines (12k characters) used in designing and illustrating this site.


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A GNU Head

This was clipped from the GNU torso.

This Head of a GNU is the default art for pages on this web site including GNU's home page.

This Head of a GNU is used on the front of the 1997 GNU T-shirt, as well as on the FSF's letterhead and business cards. It is also on the spine of many GNU Manuals.

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A Typing GNU Hacker

The artist of this art has been not yet been identified.

It was used on the front of an earlier GNU T-shirts sold by the FSF.

It is used on this web site to indicate pages that list people who are helping or have helped the GNU Project, including these pages:

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What's GNU

The artist of this art has been not yet been identified.

It is used on this web site to indicate pages that describe what GNU is, including:

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USE `GNU

The dancing GNU parenthesises were done by an artist who has been not yet been identified.

The rest of this art was designed by the FSF staff for the 1996 GNU T-shirt.

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Baby GNU

The artist of this art has been not yet been identified.

This art is use on the Linux systems page on this server.

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GNU Icons

The artists of these icons have been not yet been identified.

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The following icon of a Standing GNU in 3/4 Profile Icon is used on this web site to indicate pages that describe this web site, including:

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GNU and Blaise Pascal

The GNU Pascal art drawn by Markus Gerwinski <markus@theo-phys.uni-essen.de>:

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A Philosophical GNU

This Philosophical Gnu was drawn by Markus Gerwinski <markus@theo-phys.uni-essen.de>, and is similar to the GNU in the GNU Pascal Art.

It is used to help identify the pages on this server that deal with the philosophy of the GNU Project.

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Hurd Logos

The artist of this art has been not yet been identified.

It is used on a few of the Hurd pages on this server.

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We thank Stephen McCamant <alias@mcs.com> for designing the following Hurd logo using Metafont. Here is the source code for this Hurd logo.

It is used on most of the Hurd pages on this server.

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An FSF Logo

We thank Shawn Ewald <ewald@ctaz.net> for designing these FSF logos.

He prefers the one with the black background, so we use that on the FSF page.

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An LPF Logo

The artist of this art has been not yet been identified.

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See the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) web site for other LPF graphics.

GNU Web Page Backgrounds

These web page backgrounds were created by Markus Gerwinski <markus@theo-phys.uni-essen.de>.

For the reason why we do not use page backgrounds, see Use of Graphics in the Web Site Style Guidelines (22k characters) used in designing and authoring this site.

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