D brand identity repository

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Fri Jul 1 09:34:29 PDT 2011


"James Fisher" <jameshfisher at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1364.1309536134.14074.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
>A couple of things to keep in mind:
>
> I see every suggestion so far, including mine, uses letterplay, but a logo
> does not *have* to do this.  Note that Python's logo is not the word
> "python" made out of snakes, for example.  I see a lot of ameteur-looking
> logos around that seem to think that forcing a letter or word into a shape
> is the only way to do it.  The end result is, well, it looks forced, and
> that's bad.  I'm not advocating discarding the "D" route, but it's 
> something
> to keep in mind.  This certainly opens up possibilities for simplicity.
> There are many logos out there consisting of a simple graphic and some
> well-set text, and they look classy.  For example, we could run with the
> Mars theme, and *just* have a well-done stylized image of Mars.  Example:
> https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-11.png.
>
> Second thing: scalability of the image.  The logo should scale well down 
> to
> a 16x16px icon:
> https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-12-icon.png (this, for
> example, does not).
>
>

Certainly good points. Although since the name of the language is a letter, 
I think a letter-based logo makes a lot of sense in this case.





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