On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:38, Fionn Behrens wrote: > as there seems to be a new fashion of posting logos to the list
Well, Jose brought up the logo in particular, but with Tom's proposed site redesign such things are kind of in the air. > I'd like > to a chance as well and I strongly suggest using the symbolic power of > the double W to create a visual mnemonic. I sketched 2 figures > (attached) to illustrate what I mean. I'll invest further time into this > if I get feedback on it. The first one is too hard to read -- but maybe the W's could simply be repeated (i.e., write "web\nware", *plus* have big W's in the background). If the two big W's could fit together in some more iconic manner that might be good. I don't think the color mixing works in that one, or else it would have to be used to greater effect. The color mixing works better in the second one, where it's more prominent. Of course, I like the font in the second one, because I am fond of such fonts. Of course, it also looks very 70's as well -- change the words and I could easily imagine it as a sign for some convenience store of that era. But perhaps I'm just sensitive to such things... the painted "Web" from Luke's slave's logo feels a bit 90's to me. Use of more subtle colors might improve that... oranges and greens and whatnot, instead of pure red and blue. But such colors will mix to an ugly brown... so you'd have to do pretend mixing to get it to look right, and choose some arbitrary color to the be join of those two colors. That could look right... it would take me a long time to do that with the Gimp, though... maybe with more vector-based tools it would be easier. Hmmm... one issue that just occurred to me... I *hate hate hate* "WebWare", i.e., mixed caps. It's okay in class names, but it sucks in real names. People feel a desire to use that case, though, and with both W's made prominent that spelling could become endemic. Ian ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
