Dear Harald, Thank you very much the detailed answer! This is pretty much what I was looking for!
Indeed, it seems like a big decision to change the logo "just like that". It is good to know about the whole story behind the logo. Of course, the point that logos develop a certain signature for a product and that it takes a lot of work, time and effort for people to instinctively recognize it... Nevertheless, sometimes logos evolve <https://www.google.co.il/search?q=logo+evolution&num=20&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MusjVaLfLcipsgGcj4GgDA&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=672>... Perhaps it is not time for Sagemath yet. Maybe eventually, it may influence the choice of a next version of the logo... Best, JP Le jeudi 2 avril 2015 11:40:37 UTC+3, Harald Schilly a écrit : > > > > On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 5:23:53 PM UTC+2, jplab wrote: >> >> What do you think? >> > > Hi, sorry to spoil the party. I'm strongly against changing the logo in > such a substantial way. I'm happy with slight adoptions or creating > "doodles" (temporary modifications with a specific theme) but not a change > like that. > > There are two main reasons for me: > The logo itself is the work of a professional designer. It's crucial to > get all details right for such an important piece of graphics, and that's > the reason why the logo works on display, as a small App Icon (IOS or > Android) or as large as a poster printout. Just using the generic output of > any graphics engine might look nice on first glance, but details do matter > and it would need some manual work to fix it. That's why there exists the > profession "graphics designer" on its own, where talented people learn how > to do this properly. (Mathematican's wouldn't want any lay person to make > proofs which just look neat but are nonsense, either). Concretely for the > logo above, the outer ring of the dots do not align with the lines, there > is no 3D effect (varying dot sizes and line thicknesses) and the dashed > background lines might cause troubles at smaller scale. > > The second reason is, that after more than 6 years (I think?) it is > already pretty iconic and many can identify it. It has been used in many > places, sticker, poster, apps, and even advertisements in academic > journals. A change like that would kill all this. > > ... and finally, it has already been mentioned that there are others who > have a semi-transparent icosahedron as their logo. I know about the AMS, > but I'm sure there might be others. > > And besides all that, would you be the maintainer of the logo? In the last > years I got quite a few emails about the logo, where some wanted it in a > special variation, a size, needed handholding for some adoptions / > file-format changes or other (rather fuzzy) requests. So, it's much more > than just replacing it on a couple of places, but an ongoing task. Just a > warning ;-) > > -- harald > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
