5 Mar
2016
5 Mar
'16
1:08 p.m.
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:
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:
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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 On Friday 04 March 2016 18:25:10 Thomas Maus wrote:
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:
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
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!
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Slávek