https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-1.png
More playing around. Criticisms: - it's a bit busy - as a rule, gradients don't add any worth - mixes planet/devil metaphors to a degree that the planet metaphor is lost On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, James Fisher <jameshfis...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Walter Bright < > newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: >> >> We've pretty much settled on the logo used on d-programming-language.org. >> It would be nice to get it rendered in various sizes. >> > > Fair enough. It seems there's no source for it around (just the PNG), so > I've been vectorizing. > > In the process, I thought I may as well throw my suggestion into the mix: > https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo.png > > Basically, I like the core idea of the logo at d-p-l.org. One thing that > doesn't work so well is the shiny iconized background. A logo should be > *simple*, and I think this just detracts from the nice central idea. To > this end I have removed it: I think the logo itself should just be the > Mars-and-satellites detail. > > The other thing that doesn't work is, and forgive my crudeness, it looks > like a lactating breast. Once I realized this I have unfortunately been > unable to shake the image from my mind. To this end I have introduced a > white highlight to the satellites. (I'm still not sure this fully removes > the image.) > > One side-effect of this you might like is that the crescent simultaneously > acts as "devil's horns", reminiscent of this charming little > guy<http://digitalmars.com/d/horns.gif>who seems to have been forgotten. > > Obviously, this is a prototype. The alignment and composition could be > worked on. >