Re: [Tails-dev] Logo: some ideas

On 11/08/13 14:44, Marco Calamari wrote:
> 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.

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Carmie do you feel like reacting to those comments?