Owen, thank you for explaining the background of the habari and the logo. I think it would be very useful to put it up on the wiki somewhere (under 'What does "habari" mean?' section, maybe).
This story of a town crier is really nice and clever and I wish I had known it before. It could be a very useful part for habari marketing, I think. The connection with old times seems really positive somehow. Here is my final typographical attempt. No more buttons :) http://konstruktors.com/notes/_media/habari-logo-5.jpg Regards, Kaspars On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Owen Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
