Hi Guys,
Well, I must admit to not being really excited by the new logo. Not to hurt people's feelings, note that it is good, but I think it could be better. None of these are really strong held but are my opinions.
As it currently is I actually prefer the 'non svg shapes' version as the used shapes are rather simplistic (it makes it looks like an 80's graphics package).
The text is a bit hard to read over the Apache feather. I know that you added the white surround and it helps but the letters still 'disappear' into the noise of the feather more than I would like.
Now for a few suggestions:
I have seen some of the Apache projects that left justify the text and move the feather up next to the 'The Apache'. This would work well for us since 'XML Graphics Project' is quite a bit longer.
The URL in the corner is the old xml.apache.org URL, it should of course be xmlgraphics.apache.org (Ideally I'd like to turn this 90deg and have it run vertically, but it's too long to be readable when this is done).
If we want to have 'svg' in the logo I would look at the samples directory of Batik[1] and pull out some of those. The one's that come to mind would be either of the map images (mapSpain, mapWaadt - which could be used pretty much 'as is') or perhaps grab elements from sunRise (although that is a little 'eclipse' like).
My actual preference would be to include 'icons' from the sub projects in the new logo. For Batik this is simple since we already use the 'squiggle' heavily for this purpose (this is the red/green/blue mark in a bunch of places). I don't know if FOP has a similar readily available icon you could use. I would picture these icons 'looped' together in a clear area on the right side (think of an infinity sign with the batik logo on one side and Fop on the other). As more projects join we can add icons for them to the looping. Alternately we could come up with a new icon just for XML Graphics (a complex 'document' with the corner turned and on the back is XML - might be hard to pull off in a ~51px square)
[1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-batik/test-references/samples/
Glen Mazza wrote:
Very nice--I like the xmlgraphics logo, and the layout of the text is well done. I think in general having fewer pages but of higher quality is preferable.
Glen
Clay Leeds wrote:
On Oct 9, 2004, at 1:30 AM, Jeremias Maerki wrote: <snip what=wiki-stuff>
While we're talking about volunteers, when the resolution passes we will have some work to do, creating a charter, setting up a website for XML Graphics which will link to the two existing websites under XML and a few other things. I intent to do a good part of this but I hope I will get some help.
I've placed a temporary xmlgraphics.apache.org site live on my homepage. Please take a look and provide feedback and comments:
http://homepage.mac.com/webmaestro/xml-fop/xml-graphics/
