On Friday, 4 July 2014 at 01:17:39 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote:
> Just the D and moons:
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx3n3LnLsNBzN1didmlWZmtQQTQ/edit?usp=sharing
>
> They show up as pixilated in the Google Drive preview because
> they are being rendered at the specified page size of 125x125px
> but they are SVGs so they actually look fine when viewed natively
> (or rasterized into arbitrary sized bitmaps).

I think we should stick with that, even remove some.

We need various logos, as they'll be more or less readable at various scales. The flat-minimal is especially important as this is the only one that is going to scale down without become unrecognizable.

On 04/07/14 03:17, Brad Anderson wrote:

> Actually, mine is less accurate than I thought (I made it by
> tracing before I knew an SVG was available).
>
> Here's some variations made from the original SVG by just
> deleting paths but leaving them all unaltered:
>
> https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx3n3LnLsNBzNngyZ055eDhTbGs&usp=sharing

I like "d-flat-minimal.svg" and "d-flat.svg".

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 05/07/14 05:00, deadalnix wrote:

> We need various logos, as they'll be more or less readable at various
> scales. The flat-minimal is especially important as this is the only one
> that is going to scale down without become unrecognizable.

I agree. We need something that can be used for icons. Something that can be used on a D source code file.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 07/07/2014 8:29 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 05/07/14 05:00, deadalnix wrote:
>
>> We need various logos, as they'll be more or less readable at various
>> scales. The flat-minimal is especially important as this is the only one
>> that is going to scale down without become unrecognizable.
>
> I agree. We need something that can be used for icons. Something that
> can be used on a D source code file.
>

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryM0VJQlU5ZDJNcFk/edit

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryRW9PODBMUUZyMlE/edit

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On 07/07/14 10:05, Alix Pexton wrote:

> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryM0VJQlU5ZDJNcFk/edit
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryRW9PODBMUUZyMlE/edit

I don't think that looks so nice.

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 07/07/2014 9:17 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 07/07/14 10:05, Alix Pexton wrote:
>
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryM0VJQlU5ZDJNcFk/edit
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3i8FWPuOpryRW9PODBMUUZyMlE/edit
>
> I don't think that looks so nice.
>

Which one, Package or Sourcefile or both?

These are what I'm currently using myself, but I'm not 100% happy with how they appear when small. I'm trying to work with in the constraints that that seem to have emerged over what elements of the logo must be retained in order to preserve the D Brand.

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On 03/07/2014 8:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 7/3/2014 4:40 AM, Alix Pexton wrote:
>> I agree!
>>
>> I started working on this little document last night while angry and
>> tired,
>> maybe it should find its way to the wiki.
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sb4xnZUbzVRIicsfnxBFhTvRH4EOYq88wZexAuGcnaE/edit
>>
>>
>>
>> Its the last time I'm going to post any work related to D branding or
>> logo
>> design unless someone specifically asks me to.
>
> It's a well written document. Thank you for doing this!
>

I've created a pull request on dlang.org to add a brief page on branding. I wasn't sure if I should put a link in to this report or not.

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On 07/07/14 12:20, Alix Pexton wrote:

> Which one, Package or Sourcefile or both?

Both, actually.

> These are what I'm currently using myself, but I'm not 100% happy with
> how they appear when small. I'm trying to work with in the constraints
> that that seem to have emerged over what elements of the logo must be
> retained in order to preserve the D Brand.

Yeah, that's the problem. Actually, looking at the document icons on OS X, for a file containing C code it's just a document with some code and a large "C" on the document. Nothing that has anything to do with a logo. I just thought that I would be nice if we had a logo that could work as a document icon as well. But perhaps it's just better to follow the system or text editor conventions.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 07/07/2014 12:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 07/07/14 12:20, Alix Pexton wrote:
>
>> Which one, Package or Sourcefile or both?
>
> Both, actually.

Shame, I kinda liked the cardboard box, I surprised myself with how quickly it came together.

>> These are what I'm currently using myself, but I'm not 100% happy with
>> how they appear when small. I'm trying to work with in the constraints
>> that that seem to have emerged over what elements of the logo must be
>> retained in order to preserve the D Brand.
>
> Yeah, that's the problem. Actually, looking at the document icons on OS
> X, for a file containing C code it's just a document with some code and
> a large "C" on the document. Nothing that has anything to do with a
> logo. I just thought that I would be nice if we had a logo that could
> work as a document icon as well. But perhaps it's just better to follow
> the system or text editor conventions.
>

I was surprised when I found my mother's Ubuntu net book had an icon for D files that matched the default theme, while my vertualised Debian install doesn't even have them for C.

There doesn't seem to be a standard file icon on Windows any more either, C files on my machine get their icon from visual studio (simple page with a big letter C) the page element is common to all the filetypes registered by VS, but different to ones registered by IE and bundled ones like text files. It is something that everyone seems to have to reinvent!

There is a generic page icon, but that doesn't seem to have been updated to the windows 7 theme.

I'll try and find generic page icons for for as many systems as I can and see if I can make one overlay that works well with them all.

I was wondering if it was worth making separate icons for .di .dd and .ddoc files too, and I wanted to have a special icon for package.d but there doesn't seem to be a way to specify an icon based on anything other than the last element of the extension.

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On 07/07/2014 1:09 PM, Alix Pexton wrote:
> On 07/07/2014 12:26 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 07/07/14 12:20, Alix Pexton wrote:

> There is a generic page icon, but that doesn't seem to have been updated
> to the windows 7 theme.

Oh wait, yes it is, my bad ><

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