D brand identity repository

[Tyro[a.c.edwards]]

On 6/30/2011 9:54 PM, James Fisher wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Walter Bright
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com <mailto:newshound2 at digitalmars.com>> wrote:
>
>     We've pretty much settled on the logo used on
>     d-programming-language.org <http://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

Woo... Wait a second! What religion is this again? Don't like it,
I'll keep what we got right now.

> Basically, I like the core idea of the logo at d-p-l.org
> <http://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.