How about reserving it for version X/6? On Wednesday, August 22, 2018 at 11:40:29 AM UTC+3, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > Hi Adam > > Your sketch is great — it’s lively and cheerful in a way that > non-designers like me can never achieve. I’d love to see what you can do > with more time. > > But, as you maybe guessed, I’m not super keen on changing the logo, for a > bunch of reasons: > > * Changing it will be surprisingly expensive in terms of my time and > attention — the current logo is embedded in several TiddlyWiki-related > software projects, it’s also used on social media. The problem here is the > opportunity cost: changing the logo consumes a bunch of time on fiddly > changes but doesn’t really get the project any closer to its goals > > * Motovun Jack has been the logo for TiddlyWiki5 since the project started > in 2011, with a self-avowed goal of having a lifetime of 25 years. Taking a > long view of this project, I don’t mind improving and refining the logo (as > Mozilla have done), but I don’t like the idea of completely changing it to > a different animal while we’re still in the first 25 years > > * Motovun Jack became the logo for two reasons. Firstly, I met him and > struck up a friendship when I was on a brief holiday just as I left my job > at BT to pursue working on TW5 full time. He was sitting by me as I > scribbled the first notes of my plans for the project. Secondly, I reasoned > that a cat is a consumer of tiddlers… > > Meanwhile, when I look at TiddlyWiki 5 I see a few areas where a skilled > designer could bring improvements that might benefit all users: > > * The “Snow White” theme is pale and lifeless, and doesn’t use typography > well > * The “edit template” is jumbled and confusing, with no clear visual > hierarchy > * The TW5 default colour palettes are a good start, but not great > > In summary, I’m happy to consider tweaks/improvements to the current logo, > but I’m much more excited about the other areas where skills like yours can > bring so much more value. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy. > > On 21 Aug 2018, at 14:19, Adam Shepherd <krr...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hello! > > New forum member here. > I discovered TW about a year ago and I'm completely in love with it since. > I never understood the cat. > I'm a designer and it took me precisely 7 minutes to cook up a square-ish > (in its aspect-ratio, but the actual fish is intended to be friendly hence > the curved lines) fish logo for TW that I think is better than the cat. It > is more thematically linked. I also incorporated the brilliant idea of the > poster. > Keep in mind that this is a *VERY ROUGH, FAST SKETCH* but I imagine it > could work. Think of it as a proof of concept. > > <Auto Generated Inline Image 1.jpeg> > > Let me know if there is an official interest for a logo design for TW. I'd > be very, *very* happy to do it. (I'd love to give something back for this > amazing tool and I'm not good at coding, but logo design...half my life was > spent doing that.) > > On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 11:08:25 AM UTC+2, @TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> Mark S. wrote: >>> >>> While a fish makes more sense, the cat is a better basis for a logo. >>> >> >> I agree. Not least that a cat can occupy a square or a circle. Last year >> Twitter forced AVIs into circles. The several TW cats on there ( >> https://twitter.com/TiddlyTweeter/lists/tiddlywiki-international/members) >> all needed to tweak a bit. But a Fish would have had a hard time and >> require a very good re-designer. In any case, fish are too long. >> >> J. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tiddlywiki+...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ab295da-b97a-455f-9c40-7efb6c49d888%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3ab295da-b97a-455f-9c40-7efb6c49d888%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > <Auto Generated Inline Image 1.jpeg> > > >
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