On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: > I've sent Rob my proposal > > This is a quick look at the alteration. > http://imagebin.org/257532 > > - Adjusted the dot in the character i so it wouldn't collide into the f's > when scaled down. > - Spacing of f's kept the same, even though I wanted to join them they just > didn't look right after wards. > - TM less prominent. > - Apache less prominent with a grey font colour, as per comments, people > who liked it as a 4 said the apache stuck out too much, I'm hoping this > would have won their 5 had I done it before. >
Hi Samer, You should add your image to this wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement Thanks! -Rob > On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 11:52 PM, Kadal Amutham <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Can you send the original file to me? ( [email protected] ) I will try my >> way of adjusting >> >> With Warm Regards >> >> V.Kadal Amutham >> 919444360480 >> 914422396480 >> >> >> On 13 May 2013 09:18, Samer Mansour <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > sorry everyone i've been crawling and scraping to get some personal work >> > completed. >> > >> > I haven't read all the comments, and i haven't seen the comments for >> other >> > top logos. So I will have a better idea once that is done. >> > >> > But for what I saw last week, this is what I will be submitting: >> > - Single logo, the thinner font one. >> > - Adjusting the TM to not be prominent. >> > - Adjusting the character spacing slightly better. I liked the spacing in >> > roboto most but I think I'm drawn to technical looking fonts. >> > >> > I will try to have this done by 1pm EST time monday (over my lunch hour). >> > On May 11, 2013 10:48 AM, "Rob Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > Rob, >> > > > >> > > > Thanks for your efforts here. >> > > > >> > > > On May 11, 2013, at 8:41 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> > > > >> > > >> I've been going through the thousands of comments received in the >> > > >> survey, trying to make sense of them. Here are two things I thought >> > > >> were interesting and worth discussing: >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> 1) The number "4" appears to be unlucky in China, Japan and Korea. >> > > >> Sometimes product their will even skip over version 4 of a product >> and >> > > >> go directly to 5. (In other cultures 13 is unlucky, and hotels >> will >> > > >> not have a 13th floor). >> > > >> >> > > >> So the feedback was that we might not want to have a "4" be too >> > > >> prominent or central in the logo. >> > > > >> > > > I think that this is a strong point. Why tie the logotype to the >> > version? >> > > > >> > > >> >> > > >> 2) Some users suggested that a prominent "TM" trademark symbol was >> > > >> seen as conflicting with the openness theme. >> > > > >> > > > A TM is important for protecting the brand and it is something that >> the >> > > ASF has requested from all projects. It does not have to be prominent, >> > but >> > > ought to be present. >> > > > >> > > >> > > Exactly. We need it there, but it doesn't need to be part of the >> > > design. If we wanted we could do it like Starbucks does on their >> > > logo. >> > > >> > > No guarantees this page is the same in all countries, but look at >> > > upper left here: >> > > >> > > http://www.starbucks.com/ >> > > >> > > With their log the TM is not part of the design but placed in the >> border. >> > > >> > > -Rob >> > > >> > > > Regards, >> > > > Dave >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> Regards, >> > > >> >> > > >> -Rob >> > > >> >> > > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > >> For additional commands, e-mail: >> [email protected] >> > > >> >> > > > >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: >> [email protected] >> > > > >> > > >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
