D brand identity repository

[James Fisher]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Jose Armando Garcia <jsancio at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey, in general I like what you are doing and I find it an improvement on
> the current site.
>
> I quickly looked at your site and I notice the ubuntu logo. I really like
> their logo and what in represent (people holding hands, community,
> solidaridarity).
>

Ubuntu has perhaps the best brand awareness of perhaps any OSS project in
the world:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Official
http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/ubuntu-brand-guidelines/

(It's perhaps no coincidence that it's also the most popular distro.)


> Why don't we use something similar for inspiration for D's logo. For D we
> can use duality and have the two moons of mars represent that duality. For
> example these are dualities that are first class citizens in D: Functional
> vs OO, Stack (struct) vs heap (class), message passing (Tid) vs shared
> memory (shared), runtime polymorphism (inheritance and override)  vs compile
> time (template), etc.
>
> I am currently unable to create an image for inspiration due to lack of
> access to a decent computer and lack of skill creating digital images. I'll
> try to play with the concept and submit some drafts.
>

Everything appreciated!
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