David Abrahams wrote:
Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> writes:
Beman Dawes wrote:
Is anyone keeping a list of the more likely candidates?
I've been saving all the posts, not that it does others much good :-) As you probably noticed rockets are the dominating concept so far.
But to help keep track of things here's a wiki page...
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostLogo
Only some minor comments, and two of my own submissions on it (new ones). I can't rightfully post other peoples work, so others should add to the wiki their own images. And additional notes and ideas.
I think the requirement that
"Logo should be recognizable in small 16x16 pixel size. It will eventually need to be a favicon."
is overly restrictive. I note that even Microsoft, who invented favicons, isn't using them.
It's possible to think of making some key element of the logo into favicon without fitting the whole thing in there, and 16x16 puts some severe limitations on what can be expressed.
In their .NET product, the Toolbox icons for components are all 16 x 16. I find this is extremely restrictive also. I do not think because Microsoft wants to set some sort of restriction for their own use that one should necessarily follow this at all, especially as I would not be surprised to see Microsoft change their viewpoint in the future. Putting out a larger and more artistically pleasing logo is not going to keep anyone, who is really interested in what Boost has to offer, from downloading Boost libraries .