D brand identity repository

[James Fisher]

https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-1.png

More playing around.  Criticisms:

- it's a bit busy
- as a rule, gradients don't add any worth
- mixes planet/devil metaphors to a degree that the planet metaphor is lost

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, James Fisher <jameshfisher at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Walter Bright <
> newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>
>> We've pretty much settled on the logo used on d-programming-language.org.
>> It would be nice to get it rendered in various sizes.
>>
>
> Fair enough.  It seems there's no source for it around (just the PNG), so
> I've been vectorizing.
>
> In the process, I thought I may as well throw my suggestion into the mix:
> https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo.png
>
> Basically, I like the core idea of the logo at d-p-l.org.  One thing that
> doesn't work so well is the shiny iconized background.  A logo should be
> *simple*, and I think this just detracts from the nice central idea.  To
> this end I have removed it: I think the logo itself should just be the
> Mars-and-satellites detail.
>
> The other thing that doesn't work is, and forgive my crudeness, it looks
> like a lactating breast.  Once I realized this I have unfortunately been
> unable to shake the image from my mind.  To this end I have introduced a
> white highlight to the satellites.  (I'm still not sure this fully removes
> the image.)
>
> One side-effect of this you might like is that the crescent simultaneously
> acts as "devil's horns", reminiscent of this charming little guy<http://digitalmars.com/d/horns.gif>who seems to have been forgotten.
>
> Obviously, this is a prototype.  The alignment and composition could be
> worked on.
>
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