discuss and select from logo designs

[terrell]

There has been some discussion on tahoe-dev and within IRC regarding new logo designs.

This ticket will serve to hold the summary of discussion and candidates.

We'll close this ticket with a selection of logo moving forward.

attachment:zooko-orig.png​ - Zooko - 2008?	original allmydata.org logo
attachment:kpreid1.png​ - Kevin Reid - Jul 2009	initial attempt, red 'o' with 3 black network nodes 'up'
attachment:kpreid2.png​ - Kevin Reid - May 2010	second effort, currently in use by tahoe-lafs.org
attachment:kelly1.png​ - Kelly Marks - Aug 2010	five fresh attempts, #4 getting most praise, 'snowflake' in block of color (red) as 'o', 'LAFS' smaller and on second line
attachment:sam1.png​ - Sam Mason - Aug 2010	four iterations on kelly's #3, making text and snowflake bolder
attachment:rycee1.png​ - Robert Helges - Aug 2010	two line iteration of kevin's #2, 'pointing' down
attachment:sirvaliance-logo-proposal-1.jpg​ - Sir Valience - Sep 2011	full page

[terrell]

Robert Helges 2010-08-24

[terrell]

Sam Mason 2010-08-24

[terrell]

Kelly Marks 2010-08-23

[terrell]

Zooko's original .org logo

[terrell]

Kevin Reid 2009-07-19

[terrell]

Kevin Reid 2010-05

[zooko]

I showed these to Sebastian Kuzminsky and Dan Wontoner (not his real name) and they both preferred attachment:kpreid1.png​ . I'm partial to it myself. attachment:kpreid1.png​ and attachment:rycee1.png​ are my current favorites.

[terrell]

My current favorite is Sam's first attempt, upper left in attachment:sam1.png​.

I think it's solid, strong, easily readable, distinctive at different scales and in black/white, and follows the red/white color scheme explained by Zooko as having importance with regards to the security and confidentiality properties of Tahoe-LAFS.

[davidsarah]

My favourites are also Sam's first two attempts. The black dots in the snowflake are slightly too heavy in the right-hand one and slightly too light in the left-hand one; maybe something in-between. I agree with the meaningfulness of the red/black snowflake design.

[zooko]

Hm, so the one that is currently on ​http://tahoe-lafs.org is attachment:kpreid2.png​ . Does anybody want to agitate to change to a different one? Or shall we close this ticket and declare attachment:kpreid2.png​ to be the official logo?

Also kpreid, could we please have an svg of that?

[zooko]

kpreid (and everyone): could you please give us a liberal license like some Creative Commons licence to use your image. (In particular, I'm uploading it to commons.wikimedia.org, and they want to know if I have appropriate rights to do so...)

[kpreid]

I hereby license the images named here kpreid1 and kpreid2 under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

The source SVG documents, theoretically available at ​http://switchb.org/kpreid/2009/tahoe/ , will be updated with this licensing information, uh, as soon as my web server is back up. (Nice timing, Linode!)

[terrell]

I'd like to agitate.

I still agree with myself in comment:3 - I prefer Sam's first attempt. I also think that davidsarah's comment:4 makes sense, and would be happy to see an in-between version.

I think selecting a logo by 'default' is lazy.

Kelly grants Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike? 3.0 (CC BY-SA) to her efforts (attachment:kelly1.png​).

[edited to fix comment references]

[davidsarah]

sirvaliance-logo-proposal-1.jpg​ is showing up as an invalid JPEG for me in three different programs.

[zooko]

sirvaliance logo proposal 1, from #1475