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That makes the public discussion open until +</I>><i> Wednesday Nov. 24th. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>First of all, I think that despite the guidelines, "Linux" should +usually be included with the logo and "Mageia", if not an integral part +of the logo. +After all, we are promoting/presenting the Mageia variety of Linux. + +My preferences are : +1) <<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5078260989/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5078260989/</A>> + mageia_variations by gejobj. +These are 11 variations (by colour/font) of the same logo. +These are based on +<<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5012718103/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5012718103/</A>> marisa_mageia_v2 +by the same designer, also on the selection list. +It is a cube showing 3 faces, forming an "M" below and an "L" above, +with "Mageia" to the right, and a small "Linux" below to the right of +the "g". +My prefered colour scheme is column 2 row 2. (blue+green "M", orange +"L", violet "Linux") +My prefered font for "mageia" is column 2 row 4 (last), due to open "g" +(simpler) and "a" (not easily confused with "o"). +For "Linux" it is column 1 row 7 (last), non-serif proportional small caps. +---- + +2) <<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5063070488/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5063070488/</A>> + mageia7_1-01 by alexn83 +compass with "Mageia" to the right. +I would use the "M" on the simpler dial above, oriented to NE so as to +hide the points NE and SW. This simpler image should scale better. +I would also make the circle regular. +These changes should make it more easily recognisable in different +contexts as well. +The font I would use a sans-serif proportional, with the "a"s open to +the left, to be more readable. And no colour gradiant in the font. +(Leave that to the image.) +The colours to well together. +Note that this proposal seems very similar to another computer logo that +I've seen in the past. (maybe Mandriva or RedHat ?) +---- + +3) <<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/55329486@N03/5134846325/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/55329486@N03/5134846325/</A>> + mageia_logo_6 by sisopetron +Mageia in black with a green star for point of the "i", surrounded, in +background, by 5 progressively circles lighter circles filled in +progressively lighter blue. +The 5 spheres representing 5 continents ? +The font is ok, except I would use an open "a", to avoid confusion with "o". +The star in green would be better reduced in size - to as to not overlap +the letters. The green makes a very nice accent. +The version with green-blue instead of blue in the spheres looks also +very nice. +---- + +4) <<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennael/5021614786/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennael/5021614786/</A>> + mageia_ftizzoni05 sur ennael, by F. Tizzoni. +An "M" formed of 4 oblique rectangles, 2 tones of violet, 2 tones of +orange, with "Mageia" below to the right, an orange dot on the "i". +Very distinctive. +For colours, the orange is very nice. Maybe the violet could be light +green or blue-green ? +The font is ok, except I would use an open "a", to avoid confusion with "o". + +This was my second choice, but it seems to have been dropped from the +MageiaRed pages. +To compensate, I'm adding another choice : + +4a) <<A HREF="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29757814@N02/5023349863/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/29757814@N02/5023349863/</A>> + mageia3 by eMir +A sphere divided into blue to the left, gold to the right, with a light +tone of each colour above, separated by an arc descending in the middle. +Superimposed in white is a big "bleeding" "M", with a smallish "mageia" +near the bottom of the sphere. + +The colours blue/gold tones + white text are go very well together. +In shades of grey, it should work well : the darkest grey replacing dark +blue lower left, the lightest replacing light gold upper right. + + I would make a few (important) changes. + (1) move the arc created by the tones so that it touches the widest +part of the sphere, to be an equator, an make its curve less pronounced. + (2) move the big "M" entirely above the equator, and make its edges +regular to remove the "bleeding" effect. Maybe 2/3 the size or smaller +(to fit above), still fairly large. + (3) move "mageia" up to just under the equator, following the curve +of the equator. +Don't change its font, which is perfect ! + +With the changes suggested, the sphere becomes the world. (The user is +left to imagine the continents.) +---- + +my 2 cents :) + +- André + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003113.html">[Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003115.html">[Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3114">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3114">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3114">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3114">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |