Hi Sahib! Am 09.05.10 22:05, schrieb Sahib Jhitta: >> I have created a new logo for you if you would like to use it. I am not >> expecting any payment for this, I'd like to help the Open-Source Community >> to say thank you (and as I cannot code I decided to create this). > > And here is the logo! > > http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs50/o/2009/323/4/c/4c3757ec0c92810a4748c65385ecca1e.jpg > > Thanks again.
Thanks for your initial work here - this is very welcome! I fear though that some more things have to be done to make a new visual identity for monotone. I've seen your reel on the net and I think you could be the right man for the job, if you're interested, of course ;) The current mouse logo with its purple colors has been very long standing as visual recognition for our small project and was even used in related projects to lead their identification (see f.e. guitone.thomaskeller.biz or tracmtn.1erlei.de). Obviously most of these "related" works have been done by non-graphic artists, they should make the need for a combinable, preferrable non-text logo part clear. This gets even more important for symbol and icon design (guitone f.e. installs its own set of icons on Mac OS X, Linux and Windows), where a pure text logo would possibly be inadequate for proper recognition. Don't get me wrong here, I love your idea how you form the word monotone into the mouse shape, but I wish we could combine that somehow with the current or maybe even improved mouse shape we currently have. (You can get an SVG of the current logo if you like!) See, what bugs me a bit with the current logo we have is that the mouse itself looks cool and shiny, but the text underknees just looks plain ugly and the surrounding box with the light background acts as a simple, but poor visual bracket to make the two things work together somehow. If you could solve this design dilemma, you'd be our man ;) Also, on a related note, I started looking for a good claim for our project. We've had the sentence "reliable, distributed version control" (with the emphasis on the term "reliable") for a while on IRC and it looked cool on our merchandise as well (see http://www.cafepress.com/monotone_rcs), so maybe this could become an optional part of the new logo design as well. Of course, if people objecting this sentence and have a better one for me - then I'm open for proposals. As a design student you Sahib should be able to support this process as well... after all this is part of the branding work, right? ;) So thanks again for your initiative, we'd really love to work together with you further on this topic! Thomas. -- GPG-Key 0x160D1092 | tommyd3...@jabber.ccc.de | http://thomaskeller.biz Please note that according to the EU law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange might be retained for a period of six months or longer: http://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/?lang=en
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