Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language
Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 3 14:42:48 PDT 2014
On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 21:02:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
> On Thursday, 3 July 2014 at 19:46:18 UTC, Alix Pexton wrote:
>> I agree, it may be a happy accident that a shape that was
>> meant to be part of the glossy sheen on the image got
>> interpreted as the distant Martian horizon, but the D and
>> moons look unbalanced without it.
>
> Yep, I think it is a reflection, but used to balance the image.
> If you look at the other designs by Martin on his d-logo page
> it is kind of revealing.
>
> I also think you can ignore the importance of the background
> colour. The white D and cirlcle(s) have a pretty strong visual
> impact. Take a look at these variations:
>
> http://d.progdocu.appspot.com/test1
>
> I think they are all easily recognizable.
>
> Besides, you should be able to represent the logo in monochrome
> for print. (E.g. light on dark background)
Oh those all look good, personally I like the first one the best.
I agree that the horizon/sheen is not necessary, I never even saw
it as a horizon until it was brought up.
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