[Design-team] Fedora Magazine logo ideas

[Pamela Chestek]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> Hi!
>
>
> So I played around with this idea (which I like a lot) a bit, and the
> results are E, F, and H. I am uncomfortable with F though - after
> staring at it for a while, I think it looks like the Vicks (the cold
> medicine people, I don't know if they are international so this is what
> it looks like for non US folks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicks )
> logo. I tried it first at the normal Fedora bubble rotation but it
> doesn't give you the feeling of 'broadcasting' anymore, it just kinda
> looks like a cheesy late 70's disco effect thing.
>

I like the concept and I particularly like H (it might be my favorite) - I
like the riff but different enough to have its own identity. F doesn't look
too much like Vicks to me, but that's just my lay opinion. What I like
about F (and the horizontal version in E) is that you have a full logo
where appropriate (like the home page title bar) but then you have nice
compact icons that can be used on subsections, etc.

>
> > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 10:25 -0500, Pamela Chestek wrote:
> > > I'm not a fan of D or the variants; I think the Fedora logo, which
> > > should be the dominant element, gets overwhelmed, then you go
> > > through a thought process of "oh, the infinity symbol again, I get
> > > it," which is too much thinking for a logo.
>
> Ah okay, I get that. I poked at it for a bit and came up with a revision
> (marked D revised) on the sheet, which is a bit of a riff off of the
> Four Foundations artwork (e.g., 'with smaller bubbles' here
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo/UsageGuidelines#Permitted_logo_variants_3) What do you think about that configuration instead?
>

I wonder if it's too busy and requires too much landscape? Also, if for
some reason the word "Magazine" is dropped (because, well, duh, it's a
magazine) is it too close to Four Foundations, which means we would
essentially be using the same logo for two different concepts?

>
> > > I like C better; it adds an extra element to create a new look for a
> > > magazine but still honors the original logo. But I thought the
> > > Fedora logo portion was too small so I made a version with the
> > > proportions changed.
>
> Hey you are a regular Inkscape whiz, Pam! :) I like what you did with it
> - I think you might not have the font installed though because your
> version seems to be using the default Sans font. I did up your version
> using Comfortaa, it's C on the sheet.
>

Thanks for letting me know. I have to get my act organized as a
contributor!

Overall I like F because it has the full logo and smaller icons, which I
think would be useful. I like the concept of H and might like it the best
if there was a sweet little colored icon for it too, but nothing is coming
to mind for me. C is the closest tie to the Fedora Project since it uses
the regular Fedora logo, so part of the decision is how closely related you
want them to be. C might be awkward to use; because of the diagonal it
might be hard to compose around without it looking like it's in the middle
of a big field (but you would know better than me). It will also lose
crispness if it's used in a small version as an icon - although maybe for
the icon version you could take the word "magazine" off and reduce the size
of the color bubble to make it smaller. And D is too busy for my taste.

Design opinion only, not legal. Not thinking with that part of my brain.

Pam
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