Maybe we want something more simplistic then... Let's see what else can I come up with, something without the squares perhaps?
At least, we all seem to agree on the way the text for the name "OpenOffice" looks. Thanks for your insight. On Friday, December 21, 2012, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 12/21/12 3:47 AM, Michael Acevedo wrote: > > Hello again AOO team. > > > > As promised, I've 5 additional modified logos for the project (the last > > jpeg attachment I sent with 4 logos was modified a bit with logos 1 and > > 3 being slightly tweaked) and can be found in the Cwiki at: > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.x+-+Logo+Explorations > > > > I've also attached the same logo palletes on this email message. > > > > Hope you like these new logos. > > I think the orb with the mirror and little 3d effect don't fit in all > proposals. > > We should also think about less colors, keeping in mind that we want use > it for T-Shirts, mugs, ... and printing/production costs are always > higher with many colors as far as know. I don't know if it's really > important. > > Juergen > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Michael Acevedo > > <vea1...@gmail.com<javascript:;> > > <mailto:vea1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > Here's an additional logo proposal. It has four different designs. > > > > Hope you like them. > > > > > > On Thursday, December 20, 2012, janI wrote: > > > > I really like the pinwheel...and combine it with the suggestion > of > > replacing the flat color with small text, would just make it > > perfect. > > > > I also think it is ok, that blue is in 3d and the pins flats, > > that seems > > quite natural to me. > > > > Jan. > > > > > > On 20 December 2012 19:51, imacat <ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw> > wrote: > > > > > On 2012/12/20 13:06, Michael Acevedo said: > > > > Here's my personal insight on the logo decisions when > > it comes to > > > the > > > > amount of squares and coloring scheme. The first is that I > > tried for > > > hours > > > > how to integrate six squares into the logo and the problem > > that arose was > > > > that the logo looked too crowded. As a result I had to > strike a > > > compromise, > > > > pick the four applications or modules that embody an office > > suite in > > > > general which are the word processor, spreadsheet, > > presentation module, > > > and > > > > database creator. OpenOffice is the only office suite that > > comes to > > > memory > > > > that does have a formula editor and a radically unique > > graphics drawing > > > > program (closest analogue is Microsoft Publisher but Draw is > > a different > > > > animal). > > > > > > I see. But there are other ways of representing the > > OpenOffice > > > components instead of the square boxes. I tried to make some > as > > > attached, although they are not finished works. Please > > forgive me that > > > I'm not a designer. We can have a more lively design than > > square boxes. > > > > > > We can give up this idea of showing the components if that > > is too > > > difficult. But for some people, draw is more important than > > base. It > > > is simply not right to show only four components. > > > > > > > Moving now to the color scheme, the colors for the > > squares that > > > > represent the office suite core components were inspired > > upon the AOO > > > start > > > > center which has icons for the word, spreadsheet, > > presentation, and > > > > database modules. If you look closely, each of the icons > > there have a > > > color > > > > code, the Writer document icon has blue accents, Calc > > document icon has > > > > green accents, Impress icon has orange accents, and the Base > -- Best, Michael
