Re: Improving StormCrawler Logo for Better Scaling and Branding

[Markos Volikas]

Hi there,

I play around with inkscape from time to time and I had attempted to 
create a minimal version of the stormcrawler logo :-)

The spider was generated mostly by chatgpt with some tweaks by me 
afterwards, but I was not very satisfied with the result. The text part 
follows the apache style and I think looks nice. I share it anyway.

Best,

Markos


On 7/17/25 11:26, Julien Nioche wrote:
It was someone I found online more than 10 years ago. Here are the original
files he delivered

https://dw3i9sxi97owk.cloudfront.net/uploads/stream/2015/11/452959/25183545/Logo.ai
https://dw3i9sxi97owk.cloudfront.net/uploads/stream/2015/11/452959/25183555/Logo.png

and the individual parts

https://dw3i9sxi97owk.cloudfront.net/uploads/stream/2015/11/452959/25183909/Spider.png
https://dw3i9sxi97owk.cloudfront.net/uploads/stream/2015/11/452959/25183917/StormCrawler.png


On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 at 09:01, Sebastian Nagel
<wastl.na...@googlemail.com.invalid> wrote:

Hi,

[2] is a formally PDF (created with Adobe Illustrator): converting it
using
pdf2svg [4] results in a small (40 kiB) SVG.

  >  The current tooling doesn’t handle the .ai file well

Looks like it's because of the canvas.


  > Possibly add “Apache” to our logo

We need the font as well. Looks like, [4] was used.

Or is there an "official" ASF font to switch to?
Need to look into [5,6] or ask about it.


But maybe the main question:
@Julien, do you still have contacts to the creator of the logo?
We should first ask them before anybody "amateurishly" modifies the logo.


~Sebastian


[3] https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/focal/man1/pdf2svg.1.html
[4] https://fontm.com/adam-font/
[5] https://www.apache.org/foundation/press/kit/
[6]
https://apache.org/foundation/press/kit/ApacheFoundation_StyleGuide.pdf

On 7/16/25 13:44, Richard Zowalla wrote:
Hi,
We uploaded our StormCrawler logo for automatic logo generation [1]. The
source file is available here [2] or in our StormCrawler website repository.
Does anyone have decent Photoshop skills? I think we should consider the
following: *
Update our logo by creating an SVG version that scales properly for
graphics. The current tooling doesn’t handle the .ai file well, which makes
the generated “powered by” logo look terrible [1]. *
Possibly add “Apache” to our logo similar to how it’s done with the
Storm logo here [3]; I believe it would improve the overall look. This
might also be important, if we plan for the Trademark route.
What do you think?

Gruß

Richard______________________________________________________________________________
References:
[1] https://www.apache.org/logos/poweredby/stormcrawler.png
[2]
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/comdev/project-logos/originals/stormcrawler.ai
[3] https://www.apache.org/logos/poweredby/storm.png