[Arm-netbook] Logos

[Allan Mwenda]

I like this new logo it looks promising. Not feeling the yellow/orange for the font though and I'd probably bold it but yeah good stuff

On January 28, 2017 12:03:02 AM GMT+03:00, Parobalth <parobalth at gmail.com> wrote:
>After reading all replies and thinking about them I realized that I
>have
>unintentionally made some mistakes and also did not communicate clear
>enough.
>Because of the discussion about intel-cards and chinese clones I took
>inspiration from other certification marks and sigils. What I called a
>placeholder logo in my previous email should have been called a
>placeholder certification sigil. 
>It is correct that a logo needs to be quite scalable and that too much
>text or text at all can be problematic especially when you need it
>rather small as an icon.
>On Wednesday I made some quick sketches and tests around the ideas to
>use a big capital "E" and somehow fill in the other letters. To get
>enough space I stretched the "E" and realized that I know an already
>existing logo working on the same principle: It is the logo of the
>Electronic Frontier Foundation that you can see here:
>https://www.eff.org/press/logos
>This can be a problem and I don't want the EOMA68 logo to look like a
>rip-off. Without stretching the "E" space inside the letter is quite
>limited. I also try to avoid designs where the letters "OMA" stand out
>too much because it means grandmother in german and german is my native
>language.
>
>Today I decided to work with the base forms of the placeholder sigil --
>blue circle and green circuit board. As requested I turned the card 90°
>counter-clockwise. I added a second circle and while testing another
>idea I coincidentally deformed the circle. I have to admit that I like
>the result very much. It still represents green earth and blue ocean
>but
>also an inserted computer card.
>You can see it here:
>https://www.parobalth.org/eoma-logo/EOMA68-base-form.png
>And with text underneath:
>https://www.parobalth.org/eoma-logo/EOMA68-base-form-text.png
>
>I used a mono spaced font.
>It may also look good to use a VGA-font for the text as a reference to
>text-terminals and classic hackerdom but I could not find one already
>available for the graphical user interface. 
>
>Some thoughts to other mentioned ideas:
>I do not like the cat idea but maybe can be convinced by a clever
>designed cat logo. :) 
>The idea about a dot in the "O" of EOMA made me think of fonts where
>the
>dot is in the 0 (zero) to distinguish it from O (capital letter O) As
>we
>all are somehow computer related I would find such a design confusing.
>I can not contribute to ideas with "proper historical reference to
>hacktivism and groups like anonymous" because I am not familiar with
>their conventions. 
>
>More to come...but not today.
>Goodnight!
>
>
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