"tarsnap" is an anagram of "spartan". How about a Spartan? They were reliable and secure and serious, right?
On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Colin Percival <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tarsnap users, > > Tarsnap needs a logo. Some people think that it has needed a logo for a long > time, but I've decided this need is now urgent: As of an hour ago, Tarsnap is > a Silver sponsor of the FreeBSD Foundation, and this means their donors list > will include a logo instead of just a name... or rather, would if Tarsnap had > a logo. > > I'm completely useless at anything artistic, so I'm hoping a Tarsnap user can > come up with something good. Consequently, I'm launching today a Tarsnap logo > contest, ending on October 31st. If you submit a logo which I decide to use, > you win $500. In the event that nobody submits a logo I like, I'll take the > $500 and launch this as a contest on 99designs.com; but they take a large > commission, so I'd prefer to pay someone directly, and I figure that Tarsnap > users are more likely to know what Tarsnap is all about than random artists on > 99designs. > > I'm looking for a logo which I can use: > * In the top left corner of the Tarsnap website, > * As a favicon for the website, > * On the @tarsnap twitter account, and > * As a 128 x 128 or smaller logo to put onto the FreeBSD Foundation donors > page (and for any other open source projects Tarsnap sponsors). > > Obviously these images don't need to be identical; if the logo contains a > graphic plus the text "Tarsnap", the favicon might be the graphic alone, for > example. I think for most or all purposes all I'd want to have is a PNG, but > you get bonus points if you can provide something scalable and tell me how to > create PNGs from it on-demand. > > I have no idea what a good Tarsnap logo would look like; it might be > graphical, > it might just be a typesetting of "Tarsnap", or it might be something I can't > even imagine yet. It should be consistent with the characteristics of > Tarsnap, > however; think "secure", "reliable", "serious", "unix" rather than > "colourful", > "fun", "web 2.0", "social", etc. > > Feel free to discuss this on the list, or to email me if you have any > questions. > I look forward to seeing what people come up with! > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
