{"id":29058,"date":"2017-10-14T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com?p=29058"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:48:48","slug":"brand-your-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grapheine.com\/en\/news-agency\/brand-your-smile","title":{"rendered":"Brand your < Smile \/>!"},"content":{"rendered":"
A pioneer in digital technologies since 1991, Smile<\/a> is the european expert in open source solutions.\u00a0Smile advises, designs, integrates and implements open source solutions, as well as designs and implements platforms based on open source products and tools. Smile has 25 years of experience in open source, 1200 employees and 18 branches in Europe. In short, Smile is a beautiful philosophy, a unique positioning in the world of IT services, and above all a great economic success!<\/p>\n In 2016, Smile starts a project to redesign its visual identity. Here is the project we'd proposed at the time, and that wasn't selected by the client.<\/p>\n First of all, there's the name \"Smile<\/strong>\". It's the best promise there is. It is a promise of humanity, kindness, love, joy and sharing. These are all values associated with the world of open source. They are working to make the world more open, freer, more transparent, in short, to make the world a better place<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In order to position them as the world leader in open source solutions, we propose\u00a0to materialize these values in the simplest possible way by creating a <Smile \/> tag. In computing, a tag is a character, or series of characters, used for structuring a document and that will be invisible to the final reader, we speak then of\u00a0\"markup language\". We propose to make these tags visible, to reveal the source code so that the transparency of the code is really Smile's DNA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n From then on, the IT expertise and the values of open source are displayed loud and clear in the logo.<\/p>\n In line with their philosophy, we propose to use two royalty free\u00a0typographies. Karla<\/a>, a sans serif character with a humanist spirit. Space Mono<\/a>,\u00a0a monospace character in reference to the typographies used for computer coding.<\/p>\n Starting from the principle of making the code transparent, the graphic charter strives to reveal all the tags, and other CSS codes usually invisible. A solid orange color becomes {Background-color: #ff530d}...<\/p>\n For the brand architecture, we propose a symbol for their different services. Thus\u00a0the symbols \"{}\" associated with the programming of functions are used for\u00a0engineering,\"<\/>\" for web solutions, \"\/...\" to reveal the tree structure of information systems,\"[ ]\" that symbolizes the \"tables\" where the values are stored for the infrastructure service, and\u00a0\"#\" for the e-business part.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Don't let the world change your <Smile\/>!<\/h2>\n
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Open source typography!<\/h2>\n
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Brand architecture<\/h2>\n
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