I respond to multiple e-mails together, so excuse that the following are a few snippets...
On Saturday 05 of March 2016 06:39:29 Michele Calgaro wrote:
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Thomas, E., thanks for all your work so far. I will try to summarize where we are with this discussion (if I forgot something please feel free to add to it).
- some users do not want any change
- it would be good to give TDE a look refresh to move away from the "stale"
perception and attract new users
- some consensus for the treefoil knot
- some consensus for triskele
- some consensus and some objection to move away from the "gear" concept
- new logo should capture the essence of TDE: easy, productive, fluid,
simple
I guess we will not be able to please everyone. Anyhow if we move ahead, we should plan to have both a TDE-Classic style (i.e. current style) and a TDE-modern style (new theme, new logo, new icons....), so we can please old users and try to please new ones. KPersonalizer will allow the initial choice between the two.
I think we will have to narrow down on a few logo proposal and then choose one from there. Cheers Michele
PS: Thomas, with reference to the Triskele-Radiant-Drafts-TM-1.svg.png file, I like the top right one: "three" spirals, simple, fluid, easy on the eye. I also like the colors but I do not mind if we decide for others
Thank you - this is nicely summarized. I would like to emphasize: "easy, productive, fluid, simple"
On Saturday 05 of March 2016 12:15:39 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 04 March 2016 18:25:10 Thomas Maus wrote:
The color triplet RGB was chosen, as it is these colors are base of every desktop, uniting to a diversity of colors, forms and impressions.
I'm afraid that I particularly dislike this. It's immediate impression on me was that it was too like Windows, and it's secondary impression is simply that it hurts my eyes, specially with that glow effect. If we have this one, please can we also have a way to turn it off. Black and white feels very appealing, having just been looking at those!!
Sorry to be negative, Thomas, because I like your general approach.
Lisi
I agree here with Lisi. And in relation to the previous summary from Michele, I add my opinion: treefoil knot is beautifully simple, while triskele is much more complicated. By using a variety of colors in the proposal from ThoMaus logo is too garish. And as noted Lisi, colors very similar to the colors of the Windows logo. I believe that for Trinity suits more subtle colors.
On Monday 29 of February 2016 23:32:55 E. Liddell wrote:
For your amusement, then, here are some very early stage concept sketches. (I included a couple of random ones like the "tree-nity" logo from the batch I did ~4 years ago and the spiral-T just to give some variety to the set.) I didn't bother with colour/gradient/fancy outline tricks at this point because I'm not inclined to put that much work into something we end up not moving forward with.
Basic design criteria included incorporating some idea of "three-ness" (or "T-ness" in a couple of cases), and not looking too much like anyone else's logo that I know of. Which is why the one that looks most like Trisquel Linux's has that triangle added. Logos too similar = potential trademark infringement.
E. Liddell
In your proposals I like connection trefoil knot with gear - figures line 2 column 3, and line 3 column 3. For figure 3-3: You could try to emphasize the trefoil knot before the gear? I would have imagined: that treefoil knot was greater in the foreground and gear with similar size in the background? With colors as figure 2-3 - light treefoil knot, dark gear.
Thanks!