Re: [Tails-dev] Logo: some ideas

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Author: Marco Calamari
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Logo: some ideas
On Sat, 2013-08-10 at 19:22 +0200, sajolida@??? wrote:
> On 07/08/13 17:00, intrigeri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > carmie (Cc'd) has come up with logo ideas:
> > http://people.zoy.org/~carmie/tails/logo/
> >
> > The trace left by the cat's Tails would be purple or green,
> > to match the website's color scheme.
> >
> > If the general idea suits us, carmie will submit a cleaned up,
> > improved proposal. What do you think?
> >
> > Cheers,
>
> Funny, I had a similar idea in mind, painting something with a tail.
>
> What I am missing in that proposal is a stronger metaphor of what Tails
> is: a distro for anonymity and amnesia. Cats are often symbol of quiet
> animals that can leave no trace. But this particular one looks rather
> noisy. So would rather go for a smother cat, maybe trying to be silent
> like this one:
>
> http://www.iconhot.com/icon/png/smashing-pumpkins/256/cat-13.png
>
> And also, what's being painted by the tail may as well carry some
> meaning. Maybe a simple gradient could represent amnesia, or it could
> reuse another symbol (Tor logo?), paint a letter T, I don't know...
> Or maybe just a cat with the good attitude would do.
>
> Just a few ideas. But I'd like to read more comments on that.


Hi

an overall opinion, non directly related to your ideas.

The present logo (the header of the homepage, is very
informative; it only has a shape that make impossible to
use it as a real logo.

But the right part, the cat leaving the door with
the binary background alone, is quite intriguing as idea.

Why not develop a more detailed version of this
part alone? Will maintain a continuity with the
past one, that way. OTOH we do not need a mass-market
logo.

JM2C, of course. Thanks. Marco

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