<sect1 id="identity-brand-intro">

    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>

        &TCBRAND; is the main visual manifestaion of &TC;;.  &TC;;

        uses &TCBRAND; to connect all the visual manifestions it is

        made of (e.g., GNU/Linux Distributions, Web sites, Stationery,

        etc.) and, this way, provides recognition

        <footnote>

        <para>

            ... just as a GPG signature might do for RPM packages.

        </para>

        </footnote>

        among similar projects available on the Internet. The CentOS

        Brand is made of a graphical component (&TCSYMBOL;) and a

        typographical component (&TCTYPE;) that, when put together,

        make &TCLOGO;. The components that make &TCBRAND; can be used

        together or separately, considering that, in hierarchy order,

        &TCLOGO; is rather prefered than &TCSYMBOL;, as well as

        &TCSYMBOL; is rather prefered than &TCTYPE;.

    </para>

    <para>

        In addition to those components mentioned above, &TCBRAND;

        includes another component named &TCMOTIF;. &TCMOTIF; is

        mainly used as background on images and is directly related to

        the look and feel of all visual manifestations &TC;; shows its

        existence on.  In contrast with &TCLOGO;, &TCSYMBOL; and

        &TCTYPE;; &TCMOTIF; might change from time to time providing a

        vehicle to <quote>refresh</quote> how &TC;; looks and feels.

    </para>

    <para>

        &TCBRAND; and all the visual manifestations derivated from it

        are available for you to study and propose improvement around

        a good citizen's will inside &TC;;, but you are not allowed to

        redistribute them elsewhere, without the given permission of

        &TC;;.

    </para>

    <para>

        If you need to redistribute either &TCLOGO; or any visual

        manifestation derived from it, write your intentions to the

        The CentOS Developers mailing list (

        url="mailto:centos-devel@centos.org">centos-devel@centos.org</ulink>).

    </para>

</sect1>