"James Fisher" <jameshfis...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:mailman.1364.1309536134.14074.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... >A couple of things to keep in mind: > > I see every suggestion so far, including mine, uses letterplay, but a logo > does not *have* to do this. Note that Python's logo is not the word > "python" made out of snakes, for example. I see a lot of ameteur-looking > logos around that seem to think that forcing a letter or word into a shape > is the only way to do it. The end result is, well, it looks forced, and > that's bad. I'm not advocating discarding the "D" route, but it's > something > to keep in mind. This certainly opens up possibilities for simplicity. > There are many logos out there consisting of a simple graphic and some > well-set text, and they look classy. For example, we could run with the > Mars theme, and *just* have a well-done stylized image of Mars. Example: > https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-11.png. > > Second thing: scalability of the image. The logo should scale well down > to > a 16x16px icon: > https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-12-icon.png (this, for > example, does not). > >
Certainly good points. Although since the name of the language is a letter, I think a letter-based logo makes a lot of sense in this case.
