Re: Origins of debian "swirl"

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@grep.be>]

On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:24:11 +1000, Simon Wright wrote:
> It's a simple, generic stroke of "rough charcoal", a standard brush
> shape that ships with Adobe Illustrator. Actually, it's one of the
> five defaults that appear in the brushes pallete when you begin any
> new document
>
> I don't see any problem with this, but I thought it should be
> mentioned...

Actually, one could wonder who was first. I'm not blatantly assuming
Adobe just took the swirl without looking at our copyright, but then
it's not entirely impossible either.

The fact that this wave of other usages of the swirl is fairly recent
(or is that a perception on my side?) could imply that this is indeed
the case...

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