On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 04:44 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
"Peter Dimov" <pdimov@mmltd.net> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
Rene Rivera <grafik.list@redshift-software.com> writes:
I think that's what both Joaquin and I are saying. Boost by itself, I think, is recognizable all by itself. Many people already know what it is, well at least many in the developer community. I don't think we need the C++ to be explicitly there. And trying to put it there causes all kinds of problems because one ends up doing other things to make it fit in, re: the "/".
I kind of agree. Iconography.
Hmm.
I think it's worth pursuing the idea of
boost/
where the slash is actually a rocket ascending. I tried to convey that with an earlier attempt but it probably didn't communicate.
I'm not a logo expert by any stretch of the imagination... but it seems to me that if you have a rocket, you don't need the text "boost". The rocket is the logo. It needs to have some unique visual features that establish its identity as the "boost/C++" rocket, of course.
Interesting. But every logo I've seen includes the name of the entity it stands for somehow. Even if the rocket isn't part of some "Boost" text, you need to choose a font for "Boost" and decide how it sits next to or below the rocket.
Or _on_ it. Anternately the '++' / 'C++' could be on the rocket.