On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 14:47:21 +0000 Lisi Reisz lisi.reisz@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 03 March 2016 12:15:29 Michele Calgaro wrote:
I think though we should move away from the "gear" concept if we are going to change our logo.
I would sort of agree. But I rather like some of the combinations, and our roots are part of our attraction, so it is in some ways nice to be reminded.
I would also personally prefer to stay away from anything that reminds me, however remotely and unjustifiably, of the swastika. I know that it is an ancient symbol, I know that it is in fact the symbol of light, I know that it was the wrong way round, I know it had four arms etc. etc. But I don't like being reminded of it. (The one in the top right corner).
My husband (my resident guinea pig) particularly liked the tree and the one under it. I particularly like the one under the tree. Interestingly enough, my husband disliked the ones with gears on aesthetic grounds!! But I also liked the one at the far left of the bottom row. Not as much as the T with the triskele. That is really nice and very "suitable" IMHO.
Taking into account these and other comments, I've cut my original set of twelve down to five and performed a few revisions.
1. Triquetra/gear interlace: no changes. 2. Triskele-T: thickened the triskele for better visibility at small sizes. 3. Tree-nity: added more branches and leaves, for a healthier-looking tree. ;) 4. Triquetra + small gear: swapped colours 5. Triquetra over gear: made the triquetra larger.
Top row is the original logos from the first draft, second row is the modifications, third row is an attempt at the modifications as CrystalSVG- style menu buttons, fourth row is the original-original (KDE3 K button, easier to find on my machine than the T button) for comparison purposes.
Some of them still need a little more work (widening some lines more, possibly larger leaves on the tree-nity, more thought given to colours and gradients, and a good manual node cull), but I'm running out of weekend. ;)
E. Liddell