Is the Perl onion well known? I didn't know about it. If people don't know about it, there's no point in using it as a basis for our logo.
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Fiachra O Donoghue <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all > > Has anyone considered using the Perl onion > (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Perl-onion.png) rather than the > camel as a basis for the logo? I think it would lend itself more readily to > a clean modern design. > > Regards > > > On 16 July 2010 00:45, Christian Soeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Nice suggestions. >> >> In my mind a good logo must be simple, no too detailed shapes, quite >> graphical. Examples include the Scipy base logo (simple S shaped arrow) and >> the ubuntu logo. They allow resizing over large ranges and remain >> distinctive, work in colour but just as well in B/W, gray etc. >> >> I don't have the ideal solution but believe the suggested ones to date are >> too intricate. >> >> I have done a suggestion to integrate the idea of the PDL letters and the >> concept of data *flow*. I'll send it to Daniel to put up for others to have >> a look. >> >> Anyway, we need to look for something simple with simple shapes. >> >> Christian >> >> On 16/07/2010, at 11:20 AM, Jarle Brinchmann wrote: >> >> > Hi Daniel, >> > >> > I like H and Clifford's solution personally. I find N and its >> > derivatives looking as if the Camel is in diapers :) >> > >> > J. >> > >> > On 15 Jul 2010, at 23:35, Daniel Carrera wrote: >> > >> >> Hello, >> >> >> >> Just a couple of notes: >> >> >> >> 1) In order to give you a better idea of how these logos would look in >> >> practice, I made a few sample icons based on my 3 favourite logos: >> >> >> >> http://pdl.perl.org/images/pdl-icons-demo.png >> >> >> >> Here you can see icons for download, help, documentation, new release, >> >> and support. >> >> >> >> >> >> 2) Clifford Sobchuk has put together a proposal. A camel inside a >> >> Möbius band: >> >> >> >> http://pdl.perl.org/images/cliff-pdl-logo.png >> >> >> >> It could use some tweaking, but you get the idea. I think the idea is >> >> promising. >> >> >> >> Daniel. >> >> -- >> >> Intolerant people should be shot. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Perldl mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Perldl mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl >> >> -- >> Christian Soeller PhD Dept. of Physiology +64 9 3737599 x82770 >> University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand fax +64 9 3737499 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Perldl mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > > -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
