Re: Kupfer logo

[Martin Koelewijn <martinkoelewijn gmail com>]

Hey all,

nice to hear from kupfer again. Good effort for a logo too. Some
thoughts, do with them as you like. 
1. When zoomed out to like tray bar size you can't really tell anymore
what you see. Maybe you could use some more contrasting colors (at
least for that size).
2. The red circle reminded me of the opera logo (capital O ),
especially with the top being more narrow than the sides. If you use
e.g. blue (and leave the copper colors for the globe / disk), it would
also fit tango better.
3. The whole thing reminded me of the female symbol (you know, the
Aphrodite / Venus mirror, as opposed to the Ares / Mars arrow). If it's
going to look like a magnifying glass, maybe turn the + into a |,
which would still fit the copper symbol. I think the female symbol is
better known than the copper symbol, so I'd try to avoid the
association. As you can see here
(http://chemistry.about.com/od/periodictableelements/ig/Alchemy-Symbols/index.01.htm)
you have some options for a copper symbol. I do like the idea to use it.

Just my two cents; feel free to disagree.

VCoolio


On Wed, 5 May 2010 10:56:33 +0200
Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik sverdrup gmail com> wrote:

> 2010/5/5 nasser <designernasser gmail com>:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I started using Kupfer for about 5 days now, and I really love it.
> > I noticed that it has no logo, so I decided to make one.
> > The logo's colors are based on the copper colors and I used the
> > alchemy symbol and tried to make the circle looks like a magnifying
> > class.
> >
> > This is my first try in submitting a logo to gnome.org so I'm sorry
> > if I did something wrong :)
> >
> > I hope you like it :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Great to hear that you like Kupfer. It is also really nice that we
> finally have a proposal for a new logo. I don't know if you have used
> Quicksilver, but you should look it up, the icon is kind of similar
> :-) However if you like this, that's good as it is; it all comes from
> they way kupfer's name was chosen..
> 
> I think this icon together with with some modification in this
> direciton would be good:
> http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines  I don't know
> how up to date these guidelines are, but trying to make icons that fit
> into this type of scheme (or fit into current gnome icon theme icons)
> is worthwhile IMO (it converts a nice icon into something that looks
> good in the application menu next to all the other icons).  I tried
> adding fatter border to the big circle and I think it already improved
> it. Then Inkscape crashed :-(
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Ulrik
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