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Cops Logo - Proposals

Open horus68 opened this issue 10 years ago • 7 comments

It would be useful to have a logo for COPS to improve the brand and ilustrate articles. It would also be used to create a favicon (the favicon is used as a bookmark image on feeds by ebook reader apps). I'm not a master on logo design, but here are some proposals for a Cops logo:

option A

cops_a

option B

cops_b

option C

cops_c

option D

cops_d

Colors used option A and D: Tablet color - Color Hex 607b8b Light Sky Blue 4 - http://www.color-hex.com/color/607b8b Book blue: Color Hex 5fbcd3 - http://www.color-hex.com/color/5fbcd3

This is the same blue tone as: Images for feed categories Pull Request #244 · seblucas/cops - https://github.com/seblucas/cops/pull/244

option B and C Tablet color: Color Hex 36648b Steel Blue 4 http://www.color-hex.com/color/36648b

Black tones as requested by author on above issue: #D3D3D3 (light gray) #414141 (darker gray) (Actually I only applied it to option D after reading the request, the others are 70% grey)

Resources

  • Made with Inkscape and available as vector files if anyone needs to work on it.
  • Design elements are just 2 SVG icons from Flaticon, also available as SVG files http://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/books-in-a-library_46828 http://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/open-magazine_88179

Note: related issue: Visual guidelines Issue #185

horus68 avatar Jan 15 '16 14:01 horus68

Disclaimer : I'm known to have a "curious taste" for any logo or design in general so please don't be shocked by any of my remarks ;)

I like the colours Option A (the light blue reminds me of the Kobo website). I'm still thinking if the name (COPS) should be included on the left or not.

The ratio will make it more difficult to be added in a favicon.ico, it would be easier if it had a 1:1 aspect ratio.

I also like Option C. I'll show your logo around and check if some of my coworkers have any advice.

seblucas avatar Jan 15 '16 14:01 seblucas

I forgot, thanks a lot for proposing some logos, I've been avoiding that for too long.

seblucas avatar Jan 15 '16 14:01 seblucas

No problem... I'm not a designer and it was a little edit time for this.

horus68 avatar Jan 15 '16 14:01 horus68

Awesome! I kinda like option D. But maybe A's colors are better. Some details would vanish in a small version of it, like Sébastien pondered. I'll also show it to my colleagues and collect their thoughts on this. Thanks @horus68

scorphus avatar Jan 16 '16 12:01 scorphus

I like the tones of D. I use an e-ink browser and they render very nice in shades of grey.

jmgant avatar Jul 07 '16 11:07 jmgant

I agree with @jmgant : it needs to be nice with e-ink reader due to its purpose :)

polytan02 avatar Dec 12 '16 20:12 polytan02

@seblucas maybe you can revisit this?

  • The actual favicon has an issue with transparency (its black) so the option is to fix it or to make a new one from the "logo" image.
  • A logo for Cops would be useful as a brand when you publish online as in https://hub.docker.com/r/lsioarmhf/cops/
  • and maybe because a logo makes software to look more "pro" :)

horus68 avatar Oct 10 '18 13:10 horus68