Firs let me say, especially with this 2nd version, good work on this! I've personally worked on revising this logo about 3 times, trashing my work after a bit because it's such a difficult logo to get right. I would like to see a few of the other artists in our community also take a stab at revising it. The typical process is to collect a few different versions and take a vote, we should probably just follow suit with that.
As for the colors - I think there's no reason for MediaWiki's logo to conform to the WMF color scheme. MediaWiki, like Wikipedia has it's own community of which some WMF staff are a part of - it's totally reasonable for them to have their own identity. That said, Yellow is a difficult color to work with and get right, so I will be interested to see if much can be done to improve this at all, or if we've essentially peaked already. Perhaps we can start a page somewhere around http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logos to perform this process? - Trevor On 11/12/10 10:45 AM, Leo wrote: > Markus Krötzsch<markus<at> semantic-mediawiki.org> writes: > >> On 11/11/2010 21:37, Marco Schuster wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David Gerard<dgerard<at> gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> On 11 November 2010 19:55, MZMcBride<z<at> mzmcbride.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> The muted colors are a nice start, but I think the yellow still really >>>>> sticks out when the logos are presented as a family. Maybe the petal color >>>>> could be changed? >>>> >>>> I think this not being a photo does not make it better than the photo >>>> version. It's entirely unclear there's enough of a problem to be >>>> solved here. >>> I think it does look better than the older version, nice work. >> +1 >> >> I think this is already an improvement, though more could be done (e.g. >> get rid of the shadow completely, maybe use a slightly warmer yellow or >> more of a colour fade). For comparison: I recently re-designed the SMW >> logo completely, picking up the MW flower theme. The result is at: >> >> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Logo >> >> No shadows there, but more heavy bordering lines. Essentially two >> colours. Some prominent colour transitions and blur to add some life. >> >> Markus >> > Based on the input, here's another draft: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2.svg > > The shadows are gone (as well as the black outline of the petals) and > the whole thing more simplified to better fit the "basic shapes look" > of the other logos. > > I tried a version with red petals (as red is the only realistic color > out of red, blue& green) but I'm not a huge fan of it. It would as > well mean giving up the tournesol aspect (as there are no red > tournesols) The red version is here: > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2-red.svg > > Leo > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
