Chris Meller wrote: > > Hopefully Owen or someone else can chime in with the story about the 'h' > here.
Simply put, the idea spawned from the concept of "spreading the news" like a town crier would. Town criers often rang hand bells to bring community attention to what they have to say. We wanted the logo not to be just a bell, but also incorporate the name somehow. So I took an "h" shape and made it look as much like a bell as I could. I know that people "don't see it", but that's the explanation. There are plenty of other logos in the world where you just accept it for what it is, even if you don't know the story or "don't see it" or have an inexplicable disdain for "glyphs". I'm unsure why this one has been met with so much scorn. Oh, well. Regarding the logo ideas presented in this thread so far, one thought I have is that if you can create the logo entirely with HTML, it's probably not unique enough. The word I would most like to describe Habari's logo is "clever". The word I would least like to describe Habari's logo is "typographical". The idea of putting the name of the software into a "button" is interesting, but this look doesn't try to convey what Habari is about, just minimally what one component Habari might contain. My feeling has always been that keying anything like a logo - something we would expect to durably represent our brand - to the look of the volatile software or public site design is a misstep. For the same reason I think that the public site shouldn't necessarily emphatically eternally share the look of the software, a logo that borrows its look from our admin would be indelibly tied to that look. If our admin changes, should the logo change? (As in the case of our public site, are we resigned to never freshen the look of the site based on having an admin design grounded in good user experience?) Won't the logo look odd if we decide to change the site design in the future? I really don't want to leave our brand identity to flutter with the whim of the public site design. As I said earlier, the exclusively typographical logos don't do anything for me. In particular, the text now at the top of our home page has the syllables of the word broken in the wrong place. Careful inspection of this by visitors might make us seem a tad moronic. Please don't take any of this as me saying that the existing logo accomplishes all of what I like. It does not. But I'm not willing to merely suffice with something else. Until it does those things or is a particularly stand-out design, I think we should reserve our changes. I appreciate the effort on the logo so far. I don't mean to discourage anyone from continuing, since few people share my opinion on this topic anyway, and a good logo is likely to come from an unlikely place. What I will do is provide what I'm looking for in a logo (above), and hopefully shield myself against another influx of logos that just try to look nice but not hold any meaning. Owen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
