Luckily the same goes for me, all my favorites are still in :) Tough they are nearly all different ones:
My choices and what comes to my mind when looking at them (in order of preferation): 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316...@n06/5141934927/ All the smalls things are needed to put together to create something good. This logo expresses it perfectly for me. Also I like how it looks with text, as logo only, as icon and so on. Also looks like an instant classic and timeless. 2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofaurax/5127775007/ Timeless, modern, simple. 3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316...@n06/5063070488/ Heading in the right direction, we know where to go and what our goals are. 4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54240...@n08/5013673327/ Flames are dynamic, always changing. In connection with linux it lets me think of a bleeding edge distro. Nice colors, but don't like the font. Kind regards, Enrico > Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:01:14 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion > > > Romain d'Alverny a écrit : > > ... > > Step 1. already occurred: > > ... first short list of 77 files:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mgared/ > > > > Step 2. is the reason of this mail. 77 is still a lot, > > ... we prefer to start the discussion now. > > ... > > We are Thursday Nov. 18th. That makes the public discussion open until > > Wednesday Nov. 24th. > > > (I got a second identical message - this time it must be for mgaorange) > > Luckily, my red list choices are still in the orange list :) > So I mostly restate what I said then : > > First of all, I think that despite the guidelines, "Linux" should > usually be included with the logo and "Mageia", if not an integral part > of the logo. > After all, we are promoting/presenting the Mageia variety of Linux. > I like putting "mageia" in lower case - except maybe the "m" - and > putting "LINUX" in small caps below, to the right of the "g". > > My preferences, in approximate order are : > 1) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998...@n02/5078260989/> > mageia_variations by gejobj. > These are 11 variations (by colour/font) of the same logo. > These are based on > <http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998...@n02/5012718103/> marisa_mageia_v2 > by the same designer, also on the selection list. > A cube showing 3 faces, forming an "M" below and an "L" above, with > "Mageia" to the right, and a small "Linux" below to the right of the "g". > My prefered colour scheme is column 2 row 2. (blue+green "M", orange > "L", violet "Linux") > My prefered font for "mageia" is column 2 row 4 (last), due to open "g" > (simpler) and "a" (not easily confused with "o"). > For "Linux" it is column 1 row 7 (last), non-serif proportional small caps. > ---- > > 2) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennael/5021614786/> > mageia_ftizzoni05 by ennael, from F. Tizzoni. > An "M" formed of 4 oblique rectangles, 2 tones of violet, 2 tones of > orange, with "Mageia" below to the right, an orange dot on the "i". > Very distinctive. > For colours, the orange is very nice. Maybe the violet could be light > green or blue-green instead ? > The font is ok, except I would use an open "a", to avoid confusion with "o". > (This was listed as my 4th choice last time, because it had been removed > from the MageiaRed pages.) > ---- > > 3) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316...@n06/5063070488/> > mageia7_1-01 by alexn83 > compass with "Mageia" to the right. > I would use the "M" on the simpler dial above, oriented to NE so as to > hide the points NE and SW. This simpler image should scale better. > I would also make the circle regular. > These changes should make it more easily recognisable in different > contexts as well. > And without the direction letters, multilingual :) > > For the font I would use a sans-serif proportional, with the "a"s open > to the left, to be more readable. > I would apply this font to the "M" on the compass as well. > And no colour gradiant in the font. (Leave that to the image.) > The colours go well together. > Note that this proposal seems very similar to another computer logo that > I've seen in the past, but I can't place it. > ---- > > 4) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/55329...@n03/5134846325/> > mageia_logo_6 by sisopetron > Mageia in black with a green star for point of the "i", surrounded, in > background, by 5 circles, filled in progressively lighter blue. > The 5 spheres representing 5 continents ? > The font is ok, except I would use an open "a", to avoid confusion with "o". > The green star would be better reduced in size - so as to not overlap > the letters. The green makes a very nice accent. > The version with green-blue instead of blue in the spheres looks also > very nice. > ---- > > my 2 cents :) > > - André > > >
