On Wed, July 10, 2013 06:22, James Beck wrote:
>> What's wrong with it?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tony.
>
> I have a few complaints about the original logo.
>
> 1. It's very busy (seven colors?!)
> 2. It doesn't print well (seven colors, hairline borders, gradients)
> 3. It's inconsistent (some parts are embossed, others not. Shading is done
> in both blue and black.)
> 4. The font styles ("V" and "im") are different (this makes my eyes
> twitch)
> 5. The "m" looks like someone melted it with fire. Inelegant and weird.
> 6. As a general rule, when loud background texture (green diamond) cuts
> through text, it makes me twitch (see the treatment of "im")Good points. I don't really like the modern flat style of icons nowadays (perhaps I am just not used to it yet), but I would appreciate a new fresh look of the old logo. This reminds me, that someone posted about a new macvim logo at the vim mac list some time ago (I don't read that list, just happened to stumble over it just recently): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_mac/mR1ZbLfGw9k/UGwkCvt22nIJ > A shocking number of my colleagues have no idea how great Vim is. Some of > them were surprised to learn Vim has "syntax highlighting, just like > Eclipse!" I think this ignorance comes from two places: first, they've > only used vim to modify .bashrc on a server somewhere through Putty, and > second, the visual identity looks like the program was abandoned 10 years > ago. One reason I finally decided to post this, was because git recently > redid their logo (and it looked a lot like some of the designs I was > playing with), and I think the result reminds people that git is a > powerful, modern tool. I wanted the same for Vim. Yes, renewing the logo sounds like a good idea. regards, Christian -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
