On May 27, 2013, at 3:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > [This was cross-posted, so I'm not clear what list was intended. Makes > tracking the discussion difficult.] > > I'll bite: > > I prefer Chris's latest. The weight of the lettering is more powerful. I > think the "Apache" should not be so thin. The form used by Samer works > better. I also think down-scaling will work better in this case. > > As far as the orb goes, Chris's could be a tad larger, but not by much. I > prefer the orientation of the foreground bird to Kevin's, which has a more > threatening feel in my subjective experience.
These are good observations. I would like to see it with an "ffi" ligature. I think we should leave the 4 out. Others have mentioned that 4 is an unlucky number is some cultures. Perhaps we have compromise and have both versioned and un-versioned logo designs. If so then I think a treatment like "Version 4.0" in grey and blue might work. Regards, Dave > > - Dennis > > PS: Interesting that we've come around to a close variant of the current logo. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:22 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; market...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection > > What we've done so far: > > 1) Called for logo submissions from the community > > 2) Many designers responded and we received 40 submissions. There was > a lot of "cross-fertilization" of ideas, as designers saw what others > had come up with, what worked, and borrowed ideas. > > 3) We did a survey of user responses to the 40 logo submissions. Over > 5000 users offered their ratings and written comments. > > 4) Publish report and blog post on the results of the logo survey. > > 5) Invited the designers of the top-rated logos to read over the > survey comments and refine their designs and submit an updated > version. > > That's where we are now. The updated logos (three of them) are on the wiki > now: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Stage+2+Logo+Refinement > > As you can see there is quite a bit of convergence on a design occurring. > > So what next? > > I'd like to propose some next steps. > > A) Let's discuss the three designs on the mailing list for the next > week. The discussion might lead to further refinement. > > B) If at the end of the week there is consensus on a single design > we'll go with that one. > > C) If at the end of the week there is not consensus on a single > design, and the discussion is not leading us closer toward consensus, > then we'll have a 72-hour vote of PMC members to pick the logo. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
