---- Original Message ---- From: joaquin@tid.es To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: RE: [boost] Another logo proposal Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 01:30:24 +0100
I think this is what you've got in mind. Myself, I don't like it much. Not so compact, and the "C++" thing becomes too obvious. But well, this is just my opinion, of course.
Close, but not quite what I was thinking. The version you created goes below this bottom of the first +, which as you said makes it less compact.
Take that bottom C part and puch it up one "block", making sure you keep the + sign on top of the background. In essence, you'd really just be adding a single block of background in the lower left gap
of
the first +, and another block to the lower right gap of the first +, if that makes any sense.
Like this?
That's it exactly. Although it's almost not obvious enough that there's a C there. Of course, in the inverted version you created, if the background C was a slightly different color than the ++ it would help it stand out a little more. - Robert Geiman
"Robert Geiman" <rgeiman@buckeye-express.com> writes:
That's it exactly. Although it's almost not obvious enough that there's a C there. Of course, in the inverted version you created, if the background C was a slightly different color than the ++ it would help it stand out a little more.
With all due respect, I find this logo direction dry, unattractive, and not memorable. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
David Abrahams wrote:
With all due respect, I find this logo direction dry, unattractive, and not memorable.
For contrast, I think Joaquín Muñoz's preferred black on white plus-plus design is the best I've seen so far, including his rockets. If all of the thus-far proposed logos were put before me in a controlled test, and the examiner asked me which one of these logos was most likely the logo of a high-quality, industrial-grade, corporate-accepted software package, I'd go with the plus-plus design. The rocket design is visually pleasing and has an interesting relationship to the name "Boost," but so far, it doesn't lead me to the above mental association of a high-quality software package. It may be a little too cute. Aaron W. LaFramboise
"Aaron W. LaFramboise" <aaronrabiddog51@aaronwl.com> writes:
David Abrahams wrote:
With all due respect, I find this logo direction dry, unattractive, and not memorable.
For contrast, I think Joaquín Muñoz's preferred black on white plus-plus design is the best I've seen so far, including his rockets. If all of the thus-far proposed logos were put before me in a controlled test, and the examiner asked me which one of these logos was most likely the logo of a high-quality, industrial-grade, corporate-accepted software package, I'd go with the plus-plus design.
The rocket design is visually pleasing and has an interesting relationship to the name "Boost," but so far, it doesn't lead me to the above mental association of a high-quality software package. It may be a little too cute.
It may be. I'm not sure that our logo has to say "high quality" if our software is already well known for it. We're not quite corporate here, and perhaps we don't want to convey that. On the other hand, maybe we do, I really don't know. None of the rockets have the professional look of the "UPS" logo, at least not so far. But then, neither has the b&w C++ either. Maybe if it had color... -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com
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