On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Berthold Barth <berthold.ba...@googlemail.com> wrote: > PS: On the subject of relevance: Good design (visuals, workings, user > experience) is widely accepted to improve the users' perception of the > functionality. Beautiful things work better. Even if the new design
I couldn't agree more, and I wholeheartedly support your proposed efforts. I'm not a designer, but in my opinion the importance of high-quality graphic design and visual branding is often under-estimated. On a perhaps subconscious level, the website appearance and project logo communicate to a new user something about the perceived quality of a project, and even it relevance. A few months ago somebody on this list offered an appealing redesign of the Cygwin.com website. [1][2] That, unfortunately, seems to have gone nowhere (unless something is happening behind the scenes). As far as the current logo, it has served the project well but it definitely looks dated. [3] It's basically a two-color unaliased bitmap that harkens back to icons of 1980's and 1990's. My personal preference for a new logo would be an evolution of the current design. Ideally it would scale, perhaps with modifications, to work from small sizes (for a window titlebar) to large (for the website, e.g.). The historical evolution of the Mozilla Firefox logo might provide some guidance. [4][5][6] Or we could go in a completely new direction. For what it's worth, I've been using Cygwin for years and had no idea about the hippo artwork. -David [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-03/msg00700.html [2] http://cygwin.codecamel.com/ [3] http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-icon.gif [4] http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/logo/download.html [5] http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2004/february/brandingmozilla [6] http://www.actsofvolition.com/files/mozillabranding/ -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
