[image] Beyond Anonymity: Revealing Your Inaturalist Identity Offline [image] Beyond Anonymity: Revealing Your Inaturalist Identity Offline I suppose one could also buy an iNat hat or shirt if one wanted to make sure of being recognized. Done. I ordered a t-shirt. Hopefully it will be deliv…

Is iNat cool with folks getting merch made?

[image] AdamWargon: You can grab the iNat logo and custom-make whatever you want. I think I read somewhere, here or on iNats website, that you can’t use their logo like that. I’m sure a mod will chime in here shortly.

I wonder if there’s a difference between you creating one garment for personal use, vs monetizing it? E.g. selling a design.

I’m not a lawyer, but monetizing is definitely not allowed.

The help page says this: Can I use the iNaturalist logo when linking to iNaturalist? Yes, with the caveat that its use in context should not imply endorsement by iNaturalist, and sale of items with the iNaturalist logo is not permitted. So I think making your own shirt or hat is ok as long as y…

there’s some related discussion at https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/i-would-like-an-inat-hat/1186 . no one will ever stop you from making fan merch for your own personal use, especially if iNat doesn’t offer similar merch for sale. just don’t use your merch to imply that you’re more than a fan and do…

[image] I would like an iNat hat On the shirts, it would be awesome if we could get our username printed on the back. Great idea!

From 2020 May: [image] I would like an iNat hat In case anyone is interested, we’ve had over 400 shirt orders and I estimate that there are about 800 iNaturalist shirts out in the world now.

[image] pisum: no one will ever stop you from making fan merch for your own personal use, especially if iNat doesn’t offer similar merch for sale @pisum was using this term like it was a real term (it is), but I didn’t know it, so I looked it up: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Fan_Merch

[image] Beyond Anonymity: Revealing Your Inaturalist Identity Offline It’s confusing when the shipping company tells you that your shipment “has arrived in the destination country” (meaning, it has crossed the US border into Canada). So my t-shirt is somewhere in Canada? Seems a bit vague. Thi…

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AdamWargon March 28, 2025, 10:49pm 8

Great idea!

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