[advocacy-discuss] Logo Feedback
Jason J. W. Williams
jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 11:39:10 PDT 2008
That's "write" not "right". Sorry.
-J
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:38 PM, Jason J. W. Williams
<jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think they look nice, but agree with Peter that they don't trigger
> any association with Solaris. The first logo with the "opensolaris"
> wording from Logo 2 would look the best of those options. But it seems
> to me that if you have to right "opensolaris" next to a logo for folks
> to associate it with Solaris, then its not right. A new variation on
> the solar/sun metaphors would be cool.
>
> -J
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Hey,
> >
> > Pretty much since the inception of the project, we've been using the full word
> > mark as the logo -
> >
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/images/header.png
> >
> > which has worked out pretty well.
> >
> > We've produced some pretty awesome looking swag, but to some extent, it has
> > limited use. For example, try fitting it into a boot screen like Alan struggled
> > with last month -
> >
> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/2008-February/001753.html
> >
> > or using it in the desktop user interface, and you'll soon find yourself
> > struggling with its size restrictions. Could we free those up?
> >
> > Or, could we also change the logo to generate better brand affinity, and
> > highlight some of the themes that are central to our project? Innovation?
> > Collaboration? Boundlessness? A couple of people at Sun have been looking at
> > this very thing, and recently contracted an agency to start exploring some of
> > these ideas -
> >
> > http://www.gnome.org/~gman/opensolaris-logos/logos.html
> >
> > complete with Simon's head, for giggles. Thanks to James Duncan Davidson for use
> > of his photo of Simon at EuroOSCON.
> >
> > What do you think? Are there any strong themes coming through? Could you imagine
> > seeing some of those designs on some swag or in the desktop UI? Do you like the
> > color palette, or the design? Could you suggest some changes?
> >
> >
> > Glynn
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