On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chris Meller wrote: >> >> Hopefully Owen or someone else can chime in with the story about the 'h' >> here. > > Simply put, the idea spawned from the concept of "spreading the news" > like a town crier would. Town criers often rang hand bells to bring > community attention to what they have to say. We wanted the logo not to > be just a bell, but also incorporate the name somehow. So I took an "h" > shape and made it look as much like a bell as I could.
The logo is the brand. It's the thing that should be instantly recognisable no matter which website you are on, whether it's the project site or not. You don't just muck with a brand and "hope" it will do. It's the thing people imprint on and most well known brands try and lock in a design ideal for years at a time. Ford's oval logo has existed for years, Coca Cola's logo has evolved over time, but the same basic glyph styles have remained. It's why you can look at a bottle from 40 years ago and it's still clearly the same brand. Even the Wordpress logo has retained the 'big w' look and it changes the UI nearly every other release. I would suggest the current logo is best kept as it is until a clear successor is built. Perhaps evolving the logo is an option, whereby the symbol replaces the first letter in Habari - but again that really should be done only if there is a clear problem with the current logo. I know it's all the rage to go to a textual logo and pull a web 2.0 look, but it should never be at the expense of the brand. A lot of people are now questioning changing out from Wordpress because it's forever changing core elements without warning. People are tired of change-for-the-sake-of-change and doing just that, by yanking the current logo and futzing with new ones without clear direction would, imho, send a very confused message. If we don't know what the brand and product should look like, why should anyone even look at us? Just my 3c. Best, Brendan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
