visually i like this direction. the icons add a touch of humor and lightness. they could be links to (all as one, or individual) to explain merb's health benefits.
personally i would stay away from trying to tackle a logo and a design at the same time. work on one or the other and keep the conversation focused. i will say this about the logo: 1+1 is 2 or more in visuals. the interior negative stroke on the face is adding a lot. I don't think of Merb as being about minimalism, but I do think it is about being less and lightweight. peace - john On Oct 16, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Luke Sutton wrote: > Ok, so I've had a good think about the critisims and suggestions and > I thought it might be worth trying out something a fair bit different > to the last one. > > Here it is: > http://mr-eel.com/tmp/merb/serious.gif > > This layout is mainly black and white, with just a few colours to > accent the design. I particularly liked Geoffrey's suggestion to > emphasise a few key features of Merb. I've gone for the phrase 'Built > for speed, lightweight, powerful'. > > I also think John's idea of having code examples on the front page is > tops. I couldn't think of anything particularly illustrative, so I've > just put the install instructions in there for now. > > And… the logo. I actually put a little more time into this than I > originally intended. There needed to be something that would suit the > almost monochromatic colour scheme. Also, I think the glossy/shiney > logo look is a bit overdone by now. We should be looking to > differentiate Merb from everything else out there. > > So I created some custom type to spell the name. A logotype is the > best solution IMO, since it's hard to link merb to a single concept > that can be easily represented in a logo. > > So! What do you guys think? > > -- > Luke > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Merb-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/merb-devel _______________________________________________ Merb-devel mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/merb-devel
