D brand identity repository

[Nick Sabalausky]

"KennyTM~" <kennytm at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:iuikk3$2ucf$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On Jul 1, 11 03:24, James Fisher wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Steven Schveighoffer
>> <schveiguy at yahoo.com <mailto:schveiguy at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Also, that looks like a sideways snowman :)
>>
>>
>> Here, have some cartoon craters
>> https://github.com/eegg/d-brand/raw/master/d-logo-9.png
>>
>
> This is too complicated. Quoting you, "A logo should be *simple*". If the 
> goal is to make a simple logo, I'd make it identifiable in monochrome 
> (e.g. d-logo-3, 5, 7, 8). Python, Perl and Haskell's logos satisfy these, 
> while Ruby is an obvious exception. If it's not monochrome I don't see 
> those options simpler than the original 
> http://d-programming-language.org/images/dlogo.png.

While a logo certainly should be identifiable in monochrome, that doesn't 
preclude an additional "detail-added" version for places where such would be 
appropriate. And too much monochome-orientation can lead to a very 
corporate-looking logo.