On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:36:03AM +0100, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 09:44:36AM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > > Hi folks, > > those who attended at least one conference for the past year have probably > > noticed the rising trend (more like "sticker hype") of FOSS projects giving away > > these hexagon stickers, it's very inexpensive way of making some promo for > > their project and since we don't do many promos (AFAIK none to be precise) I > > guess as a project that's been going strong for 12 years already we should > > probably start somewhere, even baby steps count (as it turns out in this case - > > - literally...). So, I've taken our libvirt-publican repo and came up with a > > few various color combinations for libvirt hexagon sticker design. Below you > > can find links to my personal google drive (these are hexagon meshes, I can, > > or anyone can for that matter, isolate individual designs and send them as > > separate patches on demand), since each of the SVGs is over 1.5MB and I'd easily > > run into message size limits for the mailing list, had I gone with sending these > > as patches against libvirt-publican. > > Speaking of logos...at the risk of opening a huge bucket of paint: > > The current libvirt logo is bit non-intuitive. Unless you squint at it > to see what it might be about, you won't immediately get an idea what is > trying to tell you. Not sure if there's appetite to rework the logo > itself. I don't really want to go there - I really like our logo. In general I don't think logos really need to explain what the project is, largely because doing so is impossible/impractical for most technical projects. > Let me see if I can describe the image in words: "you're peeling off > some layer and you see little penguins (VMs) get churned out". You know it is basically a "sardine tin", but with penguins right ? The tin is the computer, and the sardines (penguins) are the OS that are crammed inside it. That's a pretty good analogy for VMs IMHO. > (But that's from my biased POV of already knowing what libvirt is.) > > For some inspiration, take a look at how the `curl` project went about > redesigning its logo[1]. > > [1] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/ I don't think the new curl logo is any more "intuitive" in explaining what the project is than their old logo. Unless you already know that CURL is a library for downloading web content, the implications of the "://" will pass right over your head. The new curl logo is certainly a very nice improvement, but that's because the old one was really pretty crude so anything would be better. I wouldn't say it is any more intuitive though - just a nicer graphic design. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
