Re: [Tails-dev] Logo: some ideas

Hi,

I'm sorry for my silence, I'm not speaking english very well, to write you all
is impressive for me and I was busy in august.

Here [1] is the last version of the cat I drawned, I just simplify the line in
inkscape.
I read your comments, I found them very constructive, I also thought I should
have wrote you a little something with the proposition to explain a bit more my
choices, I'm sorry I took some times to reply.

Cats are quiet, indeed, and this one have 3 rings on his tail, like wild
european cat [2]
This kind of cats are sadly rare nowadays. They can't be domesticated. They
lives anonymously in the woods.

I did not made other details, and maybe it's not easily understable. The body of
the cat is maybe too dark to notify the rings. I thought dark gray would sound
more "anonymous", but it did not seems to work, none of you seemed to noticed it.

I choosed a stretching pose because it can be contain in a square, or a circle,
to be readable in a very little icon, like a favicon. That's also the reason I
avoided gradient, I'm not sure it would be readable in icons. The idea of
erasing tracks is not clear either in my proposition, and, maybe, it could be
improve with a background of color, and a white line instead of this purple one,
or maybe if the purple lines was the beginning of the word Tails, hidden by the
tail of the cat. Something like that..

The exemple cat pose that Sajolida give is imo very interesting, reflecting more
discret move, but it doesn't fit in a square :/
Maybe could we find another pose, with a similar idea?

Regards,

Carmie

[1] http://people.zoy.org/~carmie/tails/logo/tails4.svg
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_wildcat


On 07/09/2013 13:57, sajolida@??? wrote:
> 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.
> [WAN]
>
> Carmie do you feel like reacting to those comments?
>
>