[Nix-dev] Logo improvement ideas

[Tim Cuthbertson]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Nicolas Pierron
<nicolas.b.pierron at gmail.com> wrote:
> Instead of giving 4 choices for each logo, you should ask to rank the logo.

I think so too, although I was unable to find an easy way to do this
with google forms.

> Also, I would love to have more choices.
>
> For example, I think the hex logo would be nicer with the weight of
> the straight lambda.
>
> Maybe instead of asking for specific logo, we could ask for different
> details, such as the thickness (small, medium, large, Huge) of the
> lambda, or the ending
>  (round like the old one, surround-circle, surround-hex,
> surround-tangent), and the space between the lambda (no space, tiny,
> huge), the color of the lambda (uniform, feature, half), and the the
> shade and the colors.

I get the logic behind this, but I don't think it's a good idea.
Aspects of a logo are rarely independent. As a silly analogy, if half
the respondents liked a "unicorn" logo and half liked a "whale" logo,
this sort of process might produce a narwhal - which nobody actually
wanted.

If you had everyone in a room, and you could iterate on this process,
I think it might work. But in an open-source project you'd probably
have to do it with a series of polls or something, and I suspect
people would fatigue easily and not bother seeing it through.

I'm certainly happy to hold off on the poll, and let interested
parties (perhaps yourself) submit additional variants for
consideration. If you're interested in this, the variants for this
poll all came from the "logo-poll.svg" in my repo. But I think the
community should be given the choice between a few promising
candidates, rather than creating a "build-your-own-nixos-logo"
construction kit and trying to figure out how to converge the results
back into a single coherent logo.

Cheers,
 - Tim.


> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Tim Cuthbertson <tim at gfxmonk.net> wrote:
>> I've now updated this form with the remaining options, so I think it
>> is nearly ready to go.
>>
>> I'll let it stew for a few days in case anyone has suggestions for
>> improvement before we start collecting results, but does anyone know
>> who we'd talk to to get a link somewhere official (twitter / planet /
>> etc)?
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Oliver Charles <ollie at ocharles.org.uk> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:35 PM Tim Cuthbertson <tim at gfxmonk.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If nobody authoritative wants to set up a poll, I can certainly do one :)
>>>> I'm a little bit busy at the moment, but as long as we're not in a
>>>> hurry...
>>>>
>>>> To prevent overwhelming people with options, and after letting these
>>>> stew for a little while, I'd be happy to limit choices to:
>>>>
>>>> * shapes: just circle and hex. I think circle is strictly better than
>>>> "straight", and I think "slant" is too disorganised / unclean to be a
>>>> winner.
>>>>
>>>> * colours: "feature" and "half". The plain versions are probably too
>>>> boring to bother with.
>>>>
>>>> So that only leaves 4 proposals, across those two axis. I can include
>>>> more if people think it's worth it, but I don't want to overwhelm.
>>>>
>>>> I've made a start here:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oMKuPCIz5bmUokrN6mllYpIDH7cmVQTzuZAcUdGH1HM/viewform
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like a step in the right direction! I can't think of anything else I'd
>>> add.
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