Re: Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

[Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 21:55:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 09:42:48PM +0000, Tofu Ninja via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 21:02:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 19:46:18 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>>I agree, it may be a happy accident that a shape that was 
>>meant to
>>be part of the glossy sheen on the image got interpreted as 
>>the
>>distant Martian horizon, but the D and moons look unbalanced 
>>without
>>it.
>
>Yep, I think it is a reflection, but used to balance the 
>image. If
>you look at the other designs by Martin on his d-logo page it 
>is kind
>of revealing.
>
>I also think you can ignore the importance of the background 
>colour.
>The white D and cirlcle(s) have a pretty strong visual 
>impact. Take a
>look at these variations:
>
>http://d.progdocu.appspot.com/test1
>
>I think they are all easily recognizable.

I have to admit that only the first one, and perhaps the second 
one, is
recognizable to me. The ones with black don't register in my 
brain
unless I consciously look for the D logo in them.


>Besides, you should be able to represent the logo in 
>monochrome for
>print.  (E.g. light on dark background)

Oh those all look good, personally I like the first one the 
best. I
agree that the horizon/sheen is not necessary, I never even 
saw it as
a horizon until it was brought up.

Actually, I have a hard time recognizing the logo without the 
horizon /
sheen. I'm not sure if this is bias caused by prior 
interpretation, but
none of the black & white variations make me associate them 
with the
current D logo.


T
Hmmm... thats interesting. Maybe because I never saw it as a 
horizon, just as a sheen, I never really interpreted it as 
actually apart of the logo. If this is true then it might be 
beneficial to take a poll for who thinks it looks like a horizon 
or who thinks it looks like a sheen.