[Mageia-discuss] Here's two I like; some others (with + comments in posts above) which I don't like so much.

Sun Nov 21 07:57:20 CET 2010

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+We are becoming a tangle of quoted/re-quoted posts, with add-on votes and
+replies all mixed together :( But, I'll take part in this method of
+"review", since everyone else is doing the same.
+
+I have different favorites than most previous commentators. I like the
+"Magic golden egg on Living Sceptre" by Alex,
+http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexsim22/5120476855/
+And he's done it beautifully in both color and grayscale. The one thing he
+has NOT done properly is check the licensing on his fonts; I'm pretty sure
+that "Trebuchet MS" is a license-for-money proprietary font, owned by
+Microsoft (although that version is ugly anyway). The one which looks good
+and needs to be checked is the one he calls "js-math". If it's now owned by
+Oracle, well, that could be a bad choice too.
+
+My other favorite is eMiR's globe in four quadrants with hand-drawn "M",
+http://www.flickr.com/photos/29757814@N02/5023349863/ I have a long
+comment attached to that photo- the two strange dots (Curitiba and Paris
+???) should probably be deleted. But the Globe is not derivative of
+Firefox, and the four quadrants are in complete contact with each other
+(at the equator, and at a dividing line down the middle of the logo).
+Because they are solid colors, and fully attached within the circle, I
+think it works [i]better[/i] than the well-liked Earth/Air/Water/Fire
+scheme ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5141934927/ ).
+
+Per my comment on that picture, each of the four images in [i]that[/i] set
+is detached from the others -- you end up with [u]a pattern of 4
+logos[/u], rather than one single logo. People with eyes like me would
+remember "there's a leaf for Earth, and a Flame, and a Water blob, and a
+wind for Air". But that's four DIFFERENT logos, and in my head, four
+things does NOT "map" to one thing very well. If we want people like me to
+associate our new logo with ONE thing, Mageia, then we need to make ONE
+logo. Not four.
+
+The very popular http://www.flickr.com/photos/54240048@N08/5013673327/ is,
+for me, [u]too[/u] "light". The colors, and the gentle, balanced swirls,
+add up to... not much. Pretty, and pretty forgettable. A heavier text font
+will not solve the problem; the picture itself is too "weak". Think about
+the business logos which you respect -- you'll probably decide, as I did,
+that they're usually a lot more "SOLID" than this one.
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+I present strong opinions, I know. Please *DO* feel free to ignore them if
+you disagree with me. And thanks for reading this far. :)
+