Re: Logos proposal

[Fotios Kasolis]

On Jun 10, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Ben Barrowes wrote:

> 
> On Tuesday 08 June 2010 11:56:04 Søren Hauberg wrote:
>> tir, 08 06 2010 kl. 13:17 +0200, skrev Fotios Kasolis:
>>> I would like to make a "proper" (in my opinion it should also be os
>>> independent) logo. I post work up to this point to get a direction (so
>>> that then we can re-discuss).
>> 
>> I would love to have an official logo, so thanks for looking into it.
>> 
>> One thing to keep in mind is that Octave is often perceived as a copy of
>> Matlab even if it is sooooo much more (I consider Matlab an unstable
>> low-quality copy of Octave...). So, I think we need to avoid having a
>> logo that is too similar to the Matlab logo. In other words: be careful
>> not to just show a mesh of some kind.
>> 
>> Regarding your suggestions, then I think the yellow and red parts are
>> visually a bit too agressive; they seem demand all the attention. I
>> would probably stay with the blue colours.
>> 
>> The first of your suggestions ("appIcon") has some text in the top
>> (spelling "Octave" using math symbols). I like that idea of having text
>> there, though I think the actual choice of text is a bit too clever. I
>> would go for something that looks more "hand-written". Here's my reason:
>> 
>> If you go to
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/about.html
>> 
>> you will see the following text:
>> 
>>       "
>>       Just about everyone thinks that the name Octave has something to
>>       do with music, but it is actually the name of one of the
>>       author's former professors who wrote a famous textbook on
>>       chemical reaction engineering, and who was also well known for
>>       his ability to do quick "back of the envelope" calculations. We
>>       hope that this software will make it possible for many people to
>>       do more ambitious computations just as easily.
>>       "
>> 
>> I think it would be a nice reference to the origin of the name "Octave"
>> if the logo actually included something that looks a bit like "back of
>> the envelope" calculations.
>> 
>> Anyway, those where just a few thoughts...
>> 
>> Søren
> 
> I like the idea of some text to identify octave in the logo though the text 
> could perhaps be absent 
> in some forms of the logo. Also the handwritten idea is intriguing. What 
> about using some 
> (handwritten?) greek to identify octave? There are several choices, it could 
> be phonetic: alpha chi 
> tau iota beta, or more literal in spelling to start with an o: omicron kappa 
> tau alpha beta, or use 
> the Greek work for a music octave: omicron kappa tau alpha(accent) beta alpha.
> 
> bb
> 
> 
I m Greek so no problem at all ;D !!! The sequence 8\beta\alpha is another 
solution, or \infty rotated by \pi/4, or 8 rotated by \pi/4 or sth similar any 
other ideas. Unfortunately the greek word oktava is as long as the latin one 
and i believe it will not be as beautiful. It could be used for a generic logo 
for Octave but not as an application icon.