PDF Icon use legality?

[isabellec76203930]

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to ask this in but I wanted check because I don't want to land in legal trouble.

I created an icon set for a website I'm making and I need to know if this icon is legal to use.

[Joel_Geraci]

It's not.

Quoting the guidelines...

The Adobe PDF file icon is provided solely as an indicator of an active link to a Portable Document Format file with a .pdf filename

extension created using an Adobe Acrobat product.

The full guidelines and images are here...

Icons and web logo guidelines | Adobe

You could use another PDF icon that does not include the Acrobat trefoil if you want a custom icon in blue.

[isabellec76203930]

Alright, thank you. I just wasn't clear on it since the trefoil is similar but not the same. I'm glad I asked!

[Joel_Geraci]

The law says that a trademark is infringed upon when the other one is similar enough to confuse consumers.

[Joel_Geraci]

Also, I'm neither an Adobe employee nor a lawyer... But I do play one on TV

[isabellec76203930]

Very good! I will leave this discussion up in case the answer is that I can use it (based on some cursory googling there are a lot of icons that use the trefoil that aren't adobe) but I will also change it just in case.

[Dov Isaacs · Accepted solution]

On behalf of Adobe Systems Incorporated…

No, it isn't legal to use the Acrobat trefoil in the manner that you wish to use it.

          - Dov