On 04/14/2014 04:04 PM, Nicholas Bollweg wrote:
So much hammer and anvil... a bit 17th century, no?
Several other more modern forging techniques are out there: drop, press,
upset, roll, net-shape, induction, etc (not doing the full wiki walk, but
some of them look cool). For example, roll forging is cool, as it involves
a series of different tools that alter the metal moving through it before
it is finished:
http://www.custompartnet.com/wu/images/sheet-metal/roll-forming.png
In regards to the feather: how about something that uses the foundation's
color scheme a bit more subtly, and pulls in some additional more modern
elements:
http://imgur.com/ITtyVG3,kA1rwlZ
(just whipped it up, not super excited about)
Is this the right URL? I just see the word Allura, but later you refer
to a chemical compound as being part of the logo, and I'm not seeing
that yet.
--Rich
the font is anonymous pro, which is coder-centric and open source (OFL):
http://www.marksimonson.com/fonts/view/anonymous-pro
the chemical compound is Allura Red :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Allura_Red_AC_ball-and-stick.png
I kinda like the concept of a chemical compound as a metaphor, as it
suggests that it (i.e. a forge running allura) is made of smaller things
(atoms) (i.e. projects and neighborhoods) which are in turn made of even
smaller things (i.e. code, wikis, etc.). Also, the diagram is kinda like
the gitk diagrams (or whoever gitk appropriated it from), though if your
commit history looked like that, you'd probably be in for trouble :(
I assume keeping clear away from the syndicated cartoon stuff is probably a
good idea...
Cheers!
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
On 04/14/2014 12:20 PM, jan i wrote:
On 14 April 2014 18:11, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
While it's not a requirement for us to have a logo, it would be very
nice.
Anybody got any thoughts regarding what we might do for a logo, or the
skills to make one?
I was thinking that some imagery around the idea of a forge might work,
although I know that SourceForge did that years ago.
It makes project/product identification a lot simpler when having a logo.
Putting the logo on next to everything a project makes, ensures end-users
asociate the logo with the project a lot better than the simple name.
A simple forge, where our feather is forged/hammered. I am not good at
drawing, but I can see such an image.
FeatherForge (on Twitter, Facebook, Etsy, and featherforge.com) has such
a logo.
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