<html><head></head><body>Definitely no cats too.<br>
I think the caps font used in the logo example previously is great.<br>
Adding to that, I think we should not put libre in the logo. If someone wants that let them sweat extra for RYF certification. <br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On January 26, 2017 10:04:56 AM GMT+03:00, John Luke Gibson <eaterjolly@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">I would highly recommend avoiding any logos, without proper historical<br />reference. One of the problems with traditional Linux icons, are that<br />they are very un-iconic. It's better to be textually based, in my<br />opinion, than to use disorienting imagery. At this point, most of the<br />clay has already set so referencing/alluding-to other gnu projects<br />[such as blender] wouldn't be detrimental, however ascii has a very<br />richer history of use by "hacktivists".<br /><br />Referencing some historically relevant (to "hacktivism") ascii<br />iconography either overtly or subtly, kindof more or less as a hat tip<br />to communities which support said historical events will cause the<br />logo a greater likelihood of being regarded as iconic. I wish I had<br />specific examples, but possibly using cloister black font would be a<br />subtle hat tip to anonymous for some individuals use of various<br />letters in that font as copy-cat of L from Death Note.<br /><br />Another thing of note, would be that we need to be careful who we tip<br />our hats to, to be careful of who in the future people might assume us<br />to endorse. A font is innocuous enough, that it can be adapted later<br />due to circumstance (should a need arise to disassociate) without<br />damaging the recognize-ability of any logo.<br /><br />The universal and modular style of blender, is a good point to mimic.<br />A solid dot in the center of the "O" would probably be a subtle enough<br />correlation to the blender logo.<br /><br />This is the pattern of thinking we need in developing logos and "slogans".<br /><br />Thinking about what sounds catchy only correlates us with random<br />corporate culture. We don't need to be entirely original as we have a<br />history to fall back on. However originality might also help<br />distinguish us from our predecessors, the last thing we want is to<br />fail to distinguish ourselves from your neighborhood corporation.<br /><br />I would recommend Luke to contact Wenqing Yang a.k.a. "Yummei", using<br />the notability of the project to attract their attention. I would like<br />to point out that despite being a cultural figure (famous artist) in<br />the hacktivist community they previously lauched a multi-million<br />dollar successful indiegogo which caused them much heart ache (per<br />their blog) over legal controversy with so-called partners and their<br />personal admonishment that they failed to do enough.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">From: Alexander Ross <maillist_arm-netbook@aross.me><br />To: Linux on small ARM machines <arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk><br />Cc:<br />Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:07:15 +0000<br />Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Logos<br />this all these efforts, got me to have a play around too. :)<br /><br /> i was started having a go at one idea of letters inserting into each<br /> other kinda like a module.<br /><br /> I had put E and O in side the M. it then kinda looked like/spelled Meoo<br /> like a cat.<br /> So what about a darn cat logo? maybe a cat playing with a eoma68 card in<br /> its paws?<br /><br /> sry for the yet another internet cat image type of suggestion, never<br /> thought id be making one heh.<br /></blockquote><br /><hr /><br />arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk<br /><a href="http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook">http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook</a><br />Send large attachments to arm-netbook@files.phcomp.co.uk</pre></blockquote></div><br>
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