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# Historical GIMP logos
This page inventorizes historical, official variants of our software 's
logo/mascot: Wilber.
Note that the Wilber-s here have not all necessarily been in use in the
software itself. Some variants were only used on the website, or "for
fun ", or in other ways. The actual usage will be written next to each
image when known.
This page is kept up- to-date mostly for "Free Software archeologists"
who want to discover the evolution of the project. It also allows to
easily delete images from the website while keeping easy- to-retrieve
links.
## Logos
* [GIMP 3.0](logo/README.md) by Aryeom in 2024, under [Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4. 0]( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/ 3. 0/) licen se:

The new developer logo introduced in the same time, also by Aryeom in
2024 with the same license, is:

Among other usage, it is being used as logo in the [API
references](https://developer.gimp.org/api/3.0/libgimp/) or in the
`About` dialog for unstable builds.
On macOS, the logo is shown in a white rounded-corner rectangle since
GIMP 3.0.8. Based on the logo by Aryeom, edited by Bruno Lopes without
clipping on the brush to work around macOS SVG reader limitations:

From GIMP 3.0.0 to 3.0.6, we used to have a more special variant of
the logo on macOS: Wilber over an easel, designed by Aryeom in 2024,
under CC By-SA 4.0:

The small-size variant (when displayed under 48×48) on macOS was
simpler for readability:

Apple's former <abbr title="Human Interface Guidelines">HIG</abbr>
used to recommend playing with the icon's rounded shape into familiar
skeuomorphic shapes. This recommendation ended with macOS 26 Tahoe,
where they'd move to different icon design requirements.
* [GIMP 2.6, 2.8 and 2.10](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/f73c4ed397d797ec1b5175f27b5c0f3538a87714/data/images/gimp-logo.png)
by Jakub Steiner in 2008 under [Creative Commons by-sa 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/):

In the same time, the [developer
logo](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/f9ea72123880de1976e8bace2fbca015ac312845)
was introduced, though it was not used until GIMP 2.7 (then 2.9, 2.99…)
releases:

The source file for the logo was [committed to repository](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/0579cb949be212e540a345e79f4c4b503206d5fa/desktop/src/gimp.svg)
as SVG with variants for various sizes:

* [GIMP 2.4](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/b520a3eece0e06d24a98d6d2c7ee359b2b8e13cd/data/images/gimp-logo.png) by Jakub Steiner.

* [Pre-GIMP 2.4](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/0268c69940ef0ec39b80011b8d8ab3ed415031b0/data/images/gimp-logo.png)
by Jakub Steiner in 2006. This version was never used and soon changed.

* Link buttons: authorship and creation dates are unsure. The oldest
found reference was [from a 2003
commit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-web/-/commit/0753589d15a12a71ea0d36f2724207703da91341)
already calling these images "old". They used to be proposed on a
"*Linking to Us*" page on `gimp.org` for third-party websites wishing
to link to our website. These buttons have been hidden away in 2025,
though we left them in the `images/` directory just in case some
websites still use them directly.


* [Wilber Construction Kit](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/f9ea72123880de1976e8bace2fbca015ac312845)
adding accessories to the original Wilber by various team members, between
2000 to 2005: Simon Budig (hard hat), Raphaël Quinet (wizard hat),
Jens Lautenbacher, Sven Neumann, Seth Burgess, Ville Pätsi, Guillermo
S. Romero, Carol Spears…





The [Wizard Wilber](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/a93fbc682e5574ea68eef58a09de609fb1cc5cc8/data/images/wilber-wizard.png)
was added in 2002 for the user installation dialog but is not used
anymore in modern GIMP (we just use the "gimp-wilber-eek" icon
instead).
* [SVG variant](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/e33ff2b0895f8622051f310ca000f48ad45b5981/docs/Wilber.svg)
by Simon Budig in 2000.

* [French painter Wilber](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/a93fbc682e5574ea68eef58a09de609fb1cc5cc8/data/images/wilber-tips.png)
exists since the start (1997), first as `app/wilber.h` [header
file](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/32cefec8f76ccb20f1bf3f9311843ca47c1101c8/app/wilber.h),
then as [XMP](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/f765a8216f29e0f4f56af767f582e5df59ae606b/pixmaps/wilber3.xpm),
before getting its final PNG format. It was used for the "Tip of the day"
popup (nowadays, we just use "dialog-information" icon).

* [Original Wilber](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/a4e97e61f982d3039d9d594de9477a5104491c52)
by Tuomas Kuosmanen.

- [XCF file](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/a4e97e61f982d3039d9d594de9477a5104491c52/docs/Wilber.xcf.gz)
- [README/Licensing](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/a4e97e61f982d3039d9d594de9477a5104491c52/docs/Wilber.xcf.gz.README)
## About dialog images
We make a separate section for the "About" dialog which used to have its own
dedicated image from early GIMP until GIMP 2.2. In GIMP 2.4 until today, the
About dialog shows the application logo.
* [GIMP 2.7 (unstable release)](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/f959832666f8ab0a2af719ee5106c7d59701502f/data/images/gimp-devel-logo.png):
from this version and onward, stable releases (even minor version) were still
using the logo whereas even releases (odd minor version) were using a
dedicated development logo (Wilber with a hard hat).

* GIMP 2.4: from this version, the About dialog simply used the application logo. See GIMP 2.4 application logo.

* [GIMP 2.2](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/c075dab29e494dd596ce84e9548a9b6e7f8c8a6b/data/images/gimp-logo.png) by Philip Lafleur.

* [GIMP 1.4 to 2.0](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/8cdcee9626db576be7eacf57a2207348da26b3c3/data/images/gimp_logo.png):
by Jakub Stenier.

* [Between GIMP 1.3.24 to 1.3.25](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/c48c9370425be886c25fd9cf2252e87d2306ec12/data/images/gimp_logo.png):
by Jakub Steiner. This image was never used in a release but a cropped version
of it.

* [GIMP 1.2](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/52776aa6d4e4c0534ced4ad33cd3f09fa3ebd7cc/data/images/gimp_logo.ppm): "Wilber & Sons"

* [GIMP 1.0](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/blob/a3c0b515f9c39cbf0dc6ba9525ae2ea0a369ec5e/data/images/gimp-logo-1.0.png):
This logo was used since the [early
start](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/32cefec8f76ccb20f1bf3f9311843ca47c1101c8) under the name `gimp_logo.ppm`.
Author is uncertain, though the commit author is Elliot Lee.
From reading `git log`, it looks like it was just used for the About dialog
while the software logo may have already been Wilber.

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