[Arm-netbook] Logos

[Allan Mwenda]

Definitely no cats too.
I think the caps font used in the logo example previously is great.
Adding to that, I think we should not put libre in the logo. If someone wants that let them sweat extra for RYF certification. 


On January 26, 2017 10:04:56 AM GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly at gmail.com> wrote:
>I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical
>reference. One of the problems with traditional Linux icons, are that
>they are very un-iconic. It's better to be textually based, in my
>opinion, than to use disorienting imagery. At this point, most of the
>clay has already set so referencing/alluding-to other gnu projects
>[such as blender] wouldn't be detrimental, however ascii has a very
>richer history of use by "hacktivists".
>
>Referencing some historically relevant (to "hacktivism") ascii
>iconography either overtly or subtly, kindof more or less as a hat tip
>to communities which support said historical events will cause the
>logo a greater likelihood of being regarded as iconic. I wish I had
>specific examples, but possibly using cloister black font would be a
>subtle hat tip to anonymous for some individuals use of various
>letters in that font as copy-cat of L from Death Note.
>
>Another thing of note, would be that we need to be careful who we tip
>our hats to, to be careful of who in the future people might assume us
>to endorse. A font is innocuous enough, that it can be adapted later
>due to circumstance (should a need arise to disassociate) without
>damaging the recognize-ability of any logo.
>
>The universal and modular style of blender, is a good point to mimic.
>A solid dot in the center of the "O" would probably be a subtle enough
>correlation to the blender logo.
>
>This is the pattern of thinking we need in developing logos and
>"slogans".
>
>Thinking about what sounds catchy only correlates us with random
>corporate culture. We don't need to be entirely original as we have a
>history to fall back on. However originality might also help
>distinguish us from our predecessors, the last thing we want is to
>fail to distinguish ourselves from your neighborhood corporation.
>
>I would recommend Luke to contact Wenqing Yang a.k.a. "Yummei", using
>the notability of the project to attract their attention. I would like
>to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in
>the hacktivist community they previously lauched a multi-million
>dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per
>their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their
>personal admonishment that they failed to do enough.
>
>>From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netbook at aross.me>
>>To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook at lists.phcomp.co.uk>
>>Cc:
>>Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:07:15 +0000
>>Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos
>>this all these efforts, got me to have a play around too. :)
>>
>> i was started having a go at one idea of letters inserting into each
>> other kinda like a module.
>>
>> I had put E and O in side the M. it then kinda looked like/spelled
>Meoo
>> like a cat.
>> So what about a darn cat logo? maybe a cat playing with a eoma68 card
>in
>> its paws?
>>
>> sry for the yet another internet cat image type of suggestion, never
>> thought id be making one heh.
>
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