Hi Mat The history of TiddlyWiki logos goes something like this...
To begin with, back in 2004/5, TiddlyWiki didn't have the means of displaying a logo. It was entirely text based, and including an image-based logo would have broken the single fileness. The one place where I could display a bitmapped logo without restriction was the favicon; rather than inventing a logo which would only appear there, and not be echoed in the design of the page, I went the other way, and made the favicon be a reduced version of the page. The idea was for the TW page layout to be iconic in its own right. A few years later we established tiddlywiki.org as a community wiki site for TiddlyWiki users. I came up with this initial logo for it: http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/chrome/site/tworg_logo_med.jpg There was still regular interest in establishing a TiddlyWiki logo, and so we decided to focus on coming up with a better logo for tiddlywiki.org, hence the page that Eric linked to. For a long time, tiddlywiki.org used the wavy lines logo by Simon. Fast forward to the present day: Personally, I feel that the boat has sailed a long time ago on establishing a logo for classic TW (I'm still open to discussion). But I am interested in finding a logo for TiddlyWiki5; in TW5 we can incorporate a graphical logo nicely, thanks to the support for embedded SVGs and bitmaps. I do have some personal observations about logos in general that probably bias me horribly: * A good logo should come from more than just experimenting with the letter shapes; it needs to deeply reflect the nature of the thing being branded * Logos should be fresh and original, and not reference/copy other logos * Professional logos seem to use a lot fewer gradients, highlights and shadows than we amateurs * For the web, logos need to work as small square favicons, as well as big, lush page headings You can see how I applied those principles in coming up with the TiddlySpace logo: the simplest thing I could find that represented the private/public structure of TiddlySpace. Mat - the two logo experiments you've submitted do pretty well by my criteria: * I like the interlocking T&W. Although it's certainly a riff on the shapes of the letters, as you point out it also incorporates an image of TiddlyWiki's nature. I'm not so keen on using the TiddlySpace colours: there the pink and blue are deliberately used to symbolise private and public respectively; concepts that don't exist in TiddlyWiki itself. Possibly hyperlink blue is the colour I most closely associate with TW * The tiddler logo goes down a path that I also think promising. What about a shoal of tiddlers that together make up a larger shape? I think by default it would be for me to anoint a logo as the "official" one. Matters of taste are tricky: I don't want to adopt a logo that I don't find appealing, but equally I need to listen to the feedback of others. Best wishes, Jeremy On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah, no I was not aware of those! Some nice ones! ...makes me wonder, and > sorry if I'm gauche but; @Jeremy - is it you that decide? Or who/how? > @Unamesa? Any criteria set? > > BTW, I've updated that tidbits > post<http://tidbits.tiddlyspace.com/#[[TW%20logo]]>with a new logo concept. > > <:-) > > > > On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 2:03:04 AM UTC+2, Eric Shulman wrote: >> >> On May 20, 3:08 pm, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Some sketches for a logo on tidbits space<http://tidbits.** >> tiddlyspace.com/#[[TW%20logo]]<http://tidbits.tiddlyspace.com/#[[TW%20logo]]> >> **> >> > . >> > So far, it's the best we've got as far as I know (nudge, nudge - >> challenge, >> > challenge) >> > <:-) >> >> Have you seen these? >> >> http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/**wiki/TiddlyWikiDotOrgLogos<http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/TiddlyWikiDotOrgLogos> >> >> enjoy, >> -e >> Eric Shulman >> TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios >> >> HELP ME TO HELP YOU - MAKE A CONTRIBUTION TO MY "TIP JAR"... >> >> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#**Donations<http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Donations> >> >> Professional TiddlyWiki Consulting Services... >> Analysis, Design, and Custom Solutions: >> http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#**Contact<http://www.TiddlyTools.com/#Contact> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" 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/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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