Saw this on Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/) a while back. I don't remember where Armin got inspiration from, but I remember he showed me another site that did this before his.
Sidestepping the UX discussion here, there's an important moral here for startups:
Have a logo page with print-suitable copies of your logo. Actually, do one better and have the following logos:
1. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in color
2. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in monochrome
Anytime somebody wants to write about you, anytime you're sponsoring a conference, anytime you need stuff printed—that page will serve you well and let your t-shirt suppliers/conference organizers/curious journalists the thing they need without having to bug you. Until you get really big, misuse of your logo is unlikely. Just make it easy for people to get, like everything else about your company.
At Skills (http://skillsapp.com) we have a direct link in every page's footer and another on our about page.
Sidestepping the UX discussion here, there's an important moral here for startups:
Have a logo page with print-suitable copies of your logo. Actually, do one better and have the following logos:
1. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in color
2. Vector, raster (large), raster (small) in monochrome
Anytime somebody wants to write about you, anytime you're sponsoring a conference, anytime you need stuff printed—that page will serve you well and let your t-shirt suppliers/conference organizers/curious journalists the thing they need without having to bug you. Until you get really big, misuse of your logo is unlikely. Just make it easy for people to get, like everything else about your company.
At Skills (http://skillsapp.com) we have a direct link in every page's footer and another on our about page.