videdot : About videdot

Just a few bits and pieces that have no other home.

Why videdot?

It's pronounceable and it says video (in my tiny, little head at least) and that was enough for me to begin with.

But after living with the name for a while, more things began to occur. We can spin a little meaning:

Latin / English: vide - imperative singular of Latin videre - 'to see'.; dot - English, a dot but most likely a 'picture element' - pixel.; videdot becomes see the dot.
Latin / Geek: vide - 'see', as above.; dot - in regular expressions a dot is typically used as a placeholder for any element.; videdot becomes see anything.

Naturally, the geek in me prefers the latter.

The logotype

The text is set in Frutiger italic, designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1975 for Charles de Gaulle Airport. Bitstream offer a version of Frutiger as Humanist 777.

The bar underneath is the thickness of the horizontal portion of the e and its top is twice that thickness from the bottom of the text. It extends from level with the leftmost tip of the v to halfway between the tip of the tail and the rightmost point of the t.

The blue is #0033ff and the red is #ff0000 in hexadecimal RGB notation.

Name and logotype usage

The name and logotype are ours. You may use them to refer to this project, but not to pass off other work as belonging to or being endorsed by this one without our express, written permission.

In your own use, please:

Do not alter the logotype, place things on top of it, or run other things into it. Keep a civilised amount of space around it.
Note the spelling and capitalisation. One word, all lower case.
Respect the colours if your medium allows it in a pleasant fashion. Otherwise set the whole thing in the same color as your body text - typically black.
The underlining is optional. It works best in flowing text without. On the Web do please link it and leave the underline then, for the sake of your users. Do not underline it on the Web when it isn't a link.
In HTML you can use the following fragment, which will get all these things right:
- <a href='http://videdot.com/'>videdot</a>