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But the logo is the last thing I'd look at, no matter what +</I>>><i> kind of product I am looking for. +</I>>><i> I have no clue about chain-saws, never had one in my hands. Do you +</I>>><i> really think I'd look at logos for one second when I go shopping for +</I>>><i> such a tool? I'd be very dumb to judge anything by the logo! +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> But I DO look for a logo once I found a product useful or good, I look +</I>><i> for the logo to find news, reports, anything, about this product. Then +</I>><i> it is very useful for me if the logo is simple enough to be remembered +</I>><i> and recognized whenever I see it anywhere. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> wobo +</I>><i> +</I> +Kinda agree. + +If the distro defines the logo, then any random piece of crap logo will do. + +If the (undefined, unestablished) logo defines the distro, then we are +attracting users that are so superficial as to be useless as a target +market. + +The logo should, I feel, be unlike other distro logos so as to be +easily discernible from them. + +The logo may be abstract or obtuse or both or neither; it need not be +symbolic of anything nor have any hidden meaning because it will, in +time, come to be associated with Mageia and Mageia with it and all +it's "hidden" and mysterious symbolic meaning will become forgotten +(Remember the Kool Desktop Environment?). Let us not over-geek the +process. + +So I suggest we are looking for something simple, unique, easy to +identify in favicon sizes and look good in black-and-white as well as +colour. So perhaps the logo overlords should sieve the candidates for +that and ask the artists to re-submit in black-and-white to level the +playing field. The more elaborate candidates could be developed as +themes. + +-- +Hoyt +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003102.html">[Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003095.html">[Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3103">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3103">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3103">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3103">[ 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> |