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