D brand identity repository

[SimonM]

Ooh, don't forget about the dsource logo:
http://www.dsource.org/chrome/dsource/img/dsource-logo.gif

and also the d-programming-language.org site's favicon:
http://d-programming-language.org/favicon.ico

On 2011/07/02 17:29 PM, James Fisher wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>
>