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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:24:18 +0300
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Subject: Re: Proposed logo revision proposal
From: Constantin Angheloiu <constantin.angheloiu@thewizards.ro>
To: marketing@couchdb.apache.org
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hi there,

i am happy to hear that you liked the logo i've made.

@ermouth,

have a loog at this:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwCSb3J9EzV3dTlpSGpzTHNBM1U/view?usp=3Dsha=
ring

1. those are cusp, becauze there should be no curves
2. those curves follows the font ones

thank you,
constantin


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:38 AM, ermouth <ermouth@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I consider the sofa arms and the font and colour changes to be
> significant.
>
> More important they produced result that is much weaker than original.
>
> And another low hanging fruits to correct in original:
>  * joints of straight lines and curves are cusp (!) =E2=80=93 and they de=
finitely
> must be smooth;
>  * there are too many unnecessery points on curves.
>
>
> ermouth
>
> 2015-04-23 11:00 GMT+03:00 Nick North <north.n@gmail.com>:
>
> > One person's slight correction is another's significant change. I
> consider
> > the sofa arms and the font and colour changes to be significant.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 08:49 ermouth <ermouth@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > if someone wanted a variant on that, it would have been better to
> > > have proposed it at the voting stage and not afterwards
> > >
> > > Something terrible gonna happen if someone tries to correct quite
> untidy
> > > logo? If someone made slight corrections 21 of April, not 19 of April=
 =E2=80=93
> > > what happens?
> > >
> > > You need good, reproducable logo, right? Now proposed version is at
> least
> > > technically weak and definitely need minor corrections. There is no
> > > breaking any rules in cleaning what is untidy. You need result, don=
=E2=80=98t
> be
> > so
> > > stubborn with rules.
> > >
> > > And, by the way, tweaked version proposed by Mr. Young is weaker than
> > > original =E2=80=93 so it was good idea to hire professional graphic d=
esigner to
> > > ...mmm... brush sofa a little.
> > >
> > > Low hanging fruits:
> > >  * randomness of gaps is inconsistent, gaps widths must be unified to
> > avoid
> > > weird effects on low-res devices
> > >  * width and height of other elts better be multiples of a gap width =
=E2=80=93
> > same
> > > reason
> > >  * internal roundings better be tuned to eliminate effect of aggressi=
ve
> > > visual field =E2=80=93 now I definitely see one
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ermouth
> > >
> > > 2015-04-23 10:17 GMT+03:00 Nick North <north.n@gmail.com>:
> > >
> > > > +1 to Jason and Andy's emails. Designing this sort of thing by
> everyone
> > > > making tweaks seldom leads to a good outcome. And we voted for
> > > Constantin's
> > > > design; if someone wanted a variant on that, it would have been
> better
> > to
> > > > have proposed it at the voting stage and not afterwards.
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 07:50 Andy Wenk <andywenk@apache.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > +1 what Json said.
> > > > >
> > > > > I like the logo as it was created by Constantin. The font type is
> > fresh
> > > > and
> > > > > imho there is no need to combine the old with the new one. The
> color
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > > word relax is changeable from situation to situation. So it can b=
e
> > grey
> > > > or
> > > > > red.
> > > > >
> > > > > The email address of Constantin is
> > constantin.angheloiu@thewizards.ro
> > > > >
> > > > > Cheers
> > > > >
> > > > > Andy
> > > > >
> > > > > On 23 April 2015 at 05:31, Jason Smith <jason.h.smith@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I certainly will not veto or hold up any decision. But my
> > preference
> > > > (and
> > > > > > advice) is: use it as-is. Keep the singular vision from a singl=
e
> > > > > designer.
> > > > > > (I thought that was one objective of this process.) We committe=
e
> > > > members
> > > > > > each have tweaks we might make, so that checks all of the boxes
> > for a
> > > > > > bike-shed.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let's just go with it. It's great.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Joan Touzet <wohali@apache.or=
g
> >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > While we're doing our $0.02, I like the armrests on
> Constantin's
> > > > > > > more than your rework.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The text is fine, but I'd love to see someone whose job is
> > graphic
> > > > > > > design take a stab at it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > > From: "Alexander Shorin" <kxepal@gmail.com>
> > > > > > > > To: marketing@couchdb.apache.org
> > > > > > > > Cc: constantin@thewizards.ro
> > > > > > > > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 7:04:46 PM
> > > > > > > > Subject: Re: Proposed logo revision proposal
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Benjamin Young
> > > > > > > > <byoung@bigbluehat.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > Here's the comparison of the three logos (old,
> Constantin's,
> > > and
> > > > my
> > > > > > > > > tweaked variation) plus some minimal explanation:
> > > > > > > > >
> > https://www.dropbox.com/s/poe12ktf8c05h5m/comparison.svg?dl=3D0
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > You changes looks good for me. But you need to centrify
> Apache
> > > work
> > > > > > > > between C and H, and make relax not get far away from DB
> > > > boundaries.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > --
> > > > > > > > ,,,^..^,,,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Andy Wenk
> > > > > > Hamburg - Germany
> > > > > > RockIt!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3
> 9588
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>


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