Hi Adam Your sketch is great — it’s lively and cheerful in a way that non-designers like me can never achieve. I’d love to see what you can do with more time.
But, as you maybe guessed, I’m not super keen on changing the logo, for a bunch of reasons: * Changing it will be surprisingly expensive in terms of my time and attention — the current logo is embedded in several TiddlyWiki-related software projects, it’s also used on social media. The problem here is the opportunity cost: changing the logo consumes a bunch of time on fiddly changes but doesn’t really get the project any closer to its goals * Motovun Jack has been the logo for TiddlyWiki5 since the project started in 2011, with a self-avowed goal of having a lifetime of 25 years. Taking a long view of this project, I don’t mind improving and refining the logo (as Mozilla have done), but I don’t like the idea of completely changing it to a different animal while we’re still in the first 25 years * Motovun Jack became the logo for two reasons. Firstly, I met him and struck up a friendship when I was on a brief holiday just as I left my job at BT to pursue working on TW5 full time. He was sitting by me as I scribbled the first notes of my plans for the project. Secondly, I reasoned that a cat is a consumer of tiddlers… Meanwhile, when I look at TiddlyWiki 5 I see a few areas where a skilled designer could bring improvements that might benefit all users: * The “Snow White” theme is pale and lifeless, and doesn’t use typography well * The “edit template” is jumbled and confusing, with no clear visual hierarchy * The TW5 default colour palettes are a good start, but not great In summary, I’m happy to consider tweaks/improvements to the current logo, but I’m much more excited about the other areas where skills like yours can bring so much more value. Best wishes Jeremy. > On 21 Aug 2018, at 14:19, Adam Shepherd <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello! > > New forum member here. > I discovered TW about a year ago and I'm completely in love with it since. I > never understood the cat. > I'm a designer and it took me precisely 7 minutes to cook up a square-ish (in > its aspect-ratio, but the actual fish is intended to be friendly hence the > curved lines) fish logo for TW that I think is better than the cat. It is > more thematically linked. I also incorporated the brilliant idea of the > poster. > Keep in mind that this is a VERY ROUGH, FAST SKETCH but I imagine it could > work. Think of it as a proof of concept. > > <Auto Generated Inline Image 1.jpeg> > > Let me know if there is an official interest for a logo design for TW. I'd be > very, very happy to do it. (I'd love to give something back for this amazing > tool and I'm not good at coding, but logo design...half my life was spent > doing that.) > > On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 11:08:25 AM UTC+2, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: > Mark S. wrote: > While a fish makes more sense, the cat is a better basis for a logo. > > I agree. Not least that a cat can occupy a square or a circle. Last year > Twitter forced AVIs into circles. The several TW cats on there > (https://twitter.com/TiddlyTweeter/lists/tiddlywiki-international/members > <https://twitter.com/TiddlyTweeter/lists/tiddlywiki-international/members>) > all needed to tweak a bit. But a Fish would have had a hard time and require > a very good re-designer. In any case, fish are too long. > > J. > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ab295da-b97a-455f-9c40-7efb6c49d888%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ab295da-b97a-455f-9c40-7efb6c49d888%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > <Auto Generated Inline Image 1.jpeg> -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/F9EF4E35-BDAE-41C6-8538-0C5E081BFB4D%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
