Hi Mathieu,
Thanks for working on this. I added my comment on github.
I do like the logo a lot - my only problem is that I personally, would
associate this particular logo draft more with "proj" than with "gdal".
To me it represents a compass (Zirkel in german) - and that was in the
pre-computer age more used to do projections than file formats.
I guess the earth shape is fine, but maybe the compass could be styled
in a way to make it look more like a satellite? E.g. it could have a
smaller angle/fov than the current version that covers the whole earth?
Just some thoughts - thanks again for working on it.
Andreas
On 2019-12-19 10:41, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
Greetings all,
As some of you might have spotted on GDAL's github account, I have spent some
time coming up with a refreshed GDAL logo proposal.
The draft's second iteration can be seen here:
https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/2117 - thanks to Even's initial comment on
the first iteration, the second draft looks great! :)
The proposed draft logo is IMHO a nice modernized evolution from GDAL's current
logo: a simplified representation of earth (the curved green line) under a
simplified satellite (or compass) floating over it.
IMHO, the logo professionalizes GDAL's first look when someone lands on www.gdal.org [1], on wikipedia's gdal page, etc. As superficial as first impressions are, it remains important.
On top of the arguably subjective "looking better" argument, it has several
objective benefits:
- It nicely scales down to a 32px icon size quite nicely (see examples provided
in the github issue linked to above)
- Being simple and in vector format, it makes it much easier to come up with side
products, i.e. the "mug test" attached in the gitthub issue ;) this logo would
likely stand well as a round sticker, printed on a shirt, etc. which is always useful
during hackfests.
Thoughts?
Mathieu
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