X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from dal-a2.localdomain (unknown [74.117.189.115]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDC6DC143B for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 13:27:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org (3.203.202.84.customer.cdi.no [84.202.203.3]) (using SSLv3 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ncopa@tanael.org) by dal-a2.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C245CBC105A; Tue, 13 May 2014 13:27:54 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 15:27:50 +0200 From: Natanael Copa To: Der Tiger Cc: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] New logo and website design? Message-ID: <20140513152750.709edf99@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> In-Reply-To: <536CD3D6.7080900@arcor.de> References: <20140509112421.7a5339dd@ncopa-desktop.alpinelinux.org> <536CD3D6.7080900@arcor.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.3 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-alpine-linux-musl) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 09 May 2014 15:10:46 +0200 Der Tiger wrote: > Hi Natanael, > > Brilliant work by Tobias! > > One tiny suggestion, if I may: The "Linux" part of the logo should be > made darker, to ensure it stays readable if any electronic document > containing the logo is printed in black and white on paper. I agree on this. > Does the hexagon shape stand for a certain aspect of Alpine Linux or is > it just some backdrop? My first association was a stop sign as > representation of the firewall in Alpine Linux, but that, of course, > would have been an octagon. It is difficult to represent "small" and > "simple" from the Alpine motto "small simple secure", but maybe the > "secure" aspect should be more prevalent in the shape of the logo. > "Security" is a good seller, nowadays. ;-) I was thinking of a bolt, which lead to the thought of "engineering" or simlar. (a honeycomb is constructed by hexagons and is a brilliant piece of engineering too) But its mostly just a shape and Tobias said that a cricle is "boring". So basically, hexagon does not really need to mean anything. Its just a shape. > Regarding the graphics in the alpine-logo-ideas* files, I see the term > "alps" best represented by the main logo as used in the mock-up. Most > mountains in alpine regions (e.g. New Zealand, Japan, South Korea and > Europe) are highly weathered and as a result do have slopes of about 45 > degrees (therefore a 1:1 grade). Only a few, very tall mountains like > the Himalayas or Mount Cook in New Zealand have much steeper inclines. I > would find a baseline closing the triangular shape of each of the two > mountains quite irritating, since the term "foot of the mountain" is a > concept, that does not exist in reality. Right, so the slove should be 45 degree or less? The idea was to have mountains/alps and an "A" as in Alpine at the same time. > The different colour schemes of the logo could be used to differentiate > between the main web page, the wiki, the bug tracker page et cetera. > > Keep Up the Good Work, Tiger Thanks for you feedback --- Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org ---