D brand identity repository

[James Fisher]

I've vectorized the Digital Mars logo.  http://eegg.github.com/d-brand/  (I
think it's Arial in the original, but the M and S of my Arial is
different??)  Perhaps this'll be useful some day.

Barring the stretched text, there is something I like about the DM logo.
 The Mars there looks totally out of this world (hah).

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2011-07-01 18:02, James Fisher wrote:
>
>> 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<https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-11.png>
>> **.
>>
>
> I like that one.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>
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