John wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 04:20:21 am AK wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
Logo & graphical profile
Any company needs a logo and preferably a graphical profile to make
themselves known to their customers.
Think of the big companies, think of IBM: stripy and blue, McDonalds:
M and yellow. They are graphical profiles that helps give them an
image that sticks in customers minds. Not only do they help the
business stand out, but it also creates a reputation. IBM's logo gives
a very traditional feel, serene and solid. It represents something you
can rely on in the marketplace. While the McDonalds logo is dynamic
and fun, inviting you to a feel-good experience.
A graphical profile spans logo, colours, business cards, stationeries,
and a range of supplies for commercial purposes.
People will
remember the Platypus, though, but we already have that.
I've used LyX from the beginning - and love it!
But in all the time that the logo has been there it never occurred to me that
it was a platypus, despite being familiar with the O'Reilly like platypus
associated with the original example document.
While I would much prefer that the developers worry about improving and
debugging an already superb product rather than fuss over the logo, if you
must tinker with the logo, please make it resemble a platypus!
Probably just changing the beak shape, and toning down those awful cartoon
colours would be enough.
John O'Gorman
I agree that it doesn't look much like platypus - I did not think it was
one before being told, I just meant
that whatever it is, people will remember it as being connected to LyX.
I will see if I can make it more
platypus-like without upsetting people who are used to it as it is. But
it's hard to make it look like
platypus because it's never pictured sitting like that - it probably
never sits, either. Even if you propped
up a real platypus to sit up like that and made a picture, it'd likely
be hard to tell for an average person
that it's indeed a platypus. But, anyway, we'll see what we can do. -ak
So, to sum up,
we should have a color scheme that will be shared between site template
and splash screen, and probably use a standard font face like Verdana or
something similar for now, and have the Platypus as the main
recognizable identifier of all things LyX. -andrei
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-ak
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