Brand Logo talk page

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A while ago the Foswiki Association Board has asked me to (continue to) work on the logo. I would like to present you now the latest iterations. With your votes I will finish the winning version (and use your feedback to make refinements). Hopefully we can finish this process soon (and before my holidays).

So I would like to set the deadline on Saturday 23 June, 2012.

Brand

Foswiki is an open source project, a community effort, a product used in professional environments, a tool with great flexibility and potential, used by various kinds of users. People rely on it to manage their knowledge assets for a long time, to coordinate and exchange information etc, listing the activities users do on a wiki site.

Keywords: activity, collaboration, getting active, grouping up, projects, knowledge, sharing information.

For the logo design I have focussed on:

• open (in the sense of open to people, inviting)
• group/community (working together, or individual within a larger entity; enclosing but not closed)
• extending outwards (as a community, or information)

Logo versions

These versions are still without logo type. You'll have to imagine the Foswiki name next to it.

Comments

to see them as (poorly converted and not tweaked) favicons, click on the html files

or see them all in one page in small

-- SvenDowideit - 03 Jun 2012

Votes

-- ArthurClemens - 02 Jun 2012

• kip-foswiki-logo.png:
  

• kip2-foswiki-logo.png:
  

-- KipLubliner - 05 Jun 2012

For what it's worth, as much as I'd be happy with the A series, Ohloh's logo is quite similar. Try http://www.fauxwiki.net/favicons/xico/a2.html vs http://www.ohloh.net/p/Foswiki

-- PaulHarvey - 13 Jun 2012

Summary of first choices:

Group A	7
A2	4
A1	3
A3	3
none	3
C3	2
E1	2
D1	1
B2	1

Summary of second choices:

C3	5
A1	3
A2	3
E2	2
A3	1
B group	1
B2	1
C1	1
C2	1
D3	1
E1	1

Summary of first choices, accumulated by group:

Group A	17
Group C	2
Group E	2
Group B	1
Group D	1

Summary of second choices, accumulated by group:

Group A	7
Group C	7
Group E	3
Group B	2
Group D	1

It is clear that Group A has the majority vote, and I will take that as a clear unambigious sign to develop the logo further into that direction.

A couple of remarks to take into account:

• it must not be too similar to the Wikiring logo (check the colors, while staying away from tmwiki colors)
• it must not be too similar to the Ohloh logo (the new owner Black Duck Software has chosen to bring the Ohloh logo close to their own logo: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/)

-- ArthurClemens - 23 Jun 2012

• For some added brainstorming idea - circle and wiki works together:
  

• variant 2:
  

OFC, need more play with colors and circle-widths...

-- JozefMojzis - 16 Jul 2012

This is the end result:

The logo on a web page:

And the favicon:

-- ArthurClemens - 25 Sep 2012