Mark Miller wrote:
Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi,
2008/7/20 Shalin Shekhar Mangar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
+1 for a new logo. It's a new release, let's have a new logo too!
First step
is to decide which one of these is more Solr-ish.
There was extensive discussion and opinions expressed last time the
logo issue came up, but no firm decision made. Can I suggest a quick
vote, based on those currently in JIRA, with the one taking a simple
majority of votes winning? Otherwise, I suspect it'll never change.
Might be a good idea to do just do majority instead. I was hoping to do
a 1-5 rating for each, because that way you can influence with more than
just your top vote - that may have been hoping there is more interest in
this than there really is though.
Or, someone with commit access just scratch that itch do-ocracy style,
and whoever commits the new logo gets to decide? ;-)
If this is the route to go, unofficially, based on a few people I talked
to, people seem to think the ones with the thin black lines for 'solr'
and the gradient suns in the middle look the most professional.
Let me quote what I wrote some time ago during the same discussion on
Mahout logo:
I recall some of the discussions I had with a graphical designer on
my team ... His points regarding a logo design (those that I can
still remember!):
* it should convey one or few concepts, and do it well - i.e. don't
try to communicate too many messages
* it should be meaningful and acceptable for the target audience, or
abstract enough that it doesn't matter. I'm not sure how the IBM-type
suits would react to the beach-ball if it were to appear in the
documentation of their product ;)
* it should be easy to reduce to black & white (or a fixed number of
colors) without the loss of meaning. It should be readable when
printed in reverse.
* elements should be readable at various magnifications, or it should
be possible to remove some elements (simplify) and still preserve the
distinguishing features. Think of the logo at a poster size, and at a
favicon.ico size. There could be two versions of the logo for
different sizes, where the focus is on different logo element - for
example, the elephant, or the rubik cube with a stylized "M".
... etc, etc, he could go on for hours .. ;)
Based on this:
* IMHO the simpler the better, overloaded logos don't look professional
IMHO.
* I would prefer the designs based on simple straight lines[1] e.g.
logo-grid.jpg, with a black&white option that replaces the gradient with
two-three concentric circles of varying width. I attached an SVG
rendering of this idea to the JIRA.
* a simple symbol for "Solr inside", e.g. the stylized sun with spokes,
or the black & white version of it. This could be put in places where it
needs to be used often, or as a pure symbol, and it would use too much
space with text.
[1] Off-topic, but funny: just today I told my wife that I somehow
dislike driving through a particular district of Warsaw, and she said
it's probably because streets there don't follow a grid pattern - and I
had to admit she was right :)
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Best regards,
Andrzej Bialecki <><
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