Since this mailing list is about the new logo now, I'd like to point out some things concerning it that got "broken".
First of all, wiki logo was a bit different from osm.org: it had a little "W" in the corner. The new logo's contrast is too low, so the favicon is not recognizable at a glance. And since it is not line-art now, there's an issue with transparency. Could anyone provide a good transparent gif of it? Also, I doubt it will look good on a complex background (because of absence of a thick border) but I did not test it yet. I guess, the old logo should remain for low zooms (favicons, for example). I don't see a problem with using both: a magnifier, a map and binary code are present in all of them, so the "corporate identity" has not been changed at all. We can polish both of them, and encourage people to do their versions based on the core elements. Changing of the logo was a good move, because it showed us that osm.org page is not constant. For a long time many suggestions to change anything on it were rejected with "do it yourself" line (and good designers are seldom good programmers), and even when something was done (e.g. OSB on dev.osm.org), it was shelved and forgotten. I hope this improvement will make other, bigger ones to happen. IZ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
