[Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion

Wed Dec 1 08:45:22 CET 2010

+Luckily the same goes for me, all my favorites are still in :)
+Tough they are nearly all different ones:
+
+My choices and what comes to my mind when looking at them (in order of preferation):
+
+1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5141934927/
+All
+ the smalls things are needed to put together to create something good. 
+This logo expresses it perfectly for me. Also I like how it looks with 
+text, as logo only, as icon and so on. Also looks like an instant 
+classic and timeless. 
+
+2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ofaurax/5127775007/
+Timeless, modern, simple. 
+
+3. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5063070488/
+Heading in the right direction, we know where to go and what our goals are.
+
+4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/54240048@N08/5013673327/
+Flames
+ are dynamic, always changing. In connection with linux it lets me think
+ of a bleeding edge distro. Nice colors, but don't like the font.
+
+Kind regards,
+Enrico
+
+> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:01:14 -0500
+> From: andr55 at laposte.net
+> To: mageia-discuss at mageia.org
+> Subject: Re: [Mageia-discuss] Logo proposals discussion
+> 
+> 
+> Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> > ...
+> > Step 1. already occurred:
+> > ... first short list of 77 files:http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/mgared/
+> >
+> > Step 2. is the reason of this mail. 77 is still a lot,
+> > ... we prefer to start the discussion now.
+> > ...
+> > We are Thursday Nov. 18th. That makes the public discussion open until
+> > Wednesday Nov. 24th.
+> >
+> (I got a second identical message - this time it must be for mgaorange)
+> 
+> Luckily, my red list choices are still in the orange list :)
+> So I mostly restate what I said then :
+> 
+> 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.
+> I like putting "mageia" in lower case - except maybe the "m" - and 
+> putting "LINUX" in small caps below, to the right of the "g".
+> 
+> My preferences, in approximate order are :
+> 1) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5078260989/>
+>      mageia_variations by gejobj.
+> These are 11 variations (by colour/font) of the same logo.
+> These are based on 
+> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/42998910@N02/5012718103/> marisa_mageia_v2 
+> by the same designer, also on the selection list.
+> 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) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/ennael/5021614786/>
+>   mageia_ftizzoni05 by ennael, from 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 instead ?
+> The font is ok, except I would use an open "a", to avoid confusion with "o".
+> (This was listed as my 4th choice last time, because it had been removed 
+> from the MageiaRed pages.)
+> ----
+> 
+> 3) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/54316230@N06/5063070488/>
+>      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.
+> And without the direction letters, multilingual :)
+> 
+> For the font I would use a sans-serif proportional, with the "a"s open 
+> to the left, to be more readable.
+> I would apply this font to the "M" on the compass as well.
+> And no colour gradiant in the font.  (Leave that to the image.)
+> The colours go well together.
+> Note that this proposal seems very similar to another computer logo that 
+> I've seen in the past, but I can't place it.
+> ----
+> 
+> 4) <http://www.flickr.com/photos/55329486@N03/5134846325/>
+>      mageia_logo_6 by sisopetron
+> Mageia in black with a green star for point of the "i", surrounded, in 
+> background, by 5 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 green star would be better reduced in size - so 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.
+> ----
+> 
+> my 2 cents :)
+> 
+> - André
+> 
+> 
+> 
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