[OpenID] Proposed logo redesign ...

[David Fuelling]

+.75

They need a little polish, of course, but I like where these are headed.

Curious to know if there would be objection to 16x16 & 32x32 logos with
orange bground, and larger logos with the same, but inverted, colors.

david

> -----Original Message-----
> From: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 9:51 AM
> To: general at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID] Proposed logo redesign ...
> 
> ydnar wrote:
> > * Potentially knock out the shape: How does it look on a orange
> > square, with the shape in negative (white) space? This would resemble
> > the standard RSS/feed icon that Mozilla & Microsoft have adopted. Not
> > a bad thing to latch the OpenID cart to, potentially.
> >
> 
> I finally managed to dig up the proposal for a different little icon for
> OpenID posted on LiveJournal:
>      <http://brad.livejournal.com/2128127.html?thread=10515455#t10515455>
> 
> This design does the inversion of the orange and the white like you
> suggest here, but does it in a circle instead. I'm not sure the circle
> works too well given that there's already a curved shape inside, but I
> think the main logo inside it remains reasonably distinct.
> 
> I played around with combinations of the orange background from the RSS
> logo and renderings of the logo on orange.
> 
> Several variations are attached. The first two were pixel-painted from
> jc's on-orange logo, but the rest of them are from ydnar's vector art.
> Since I was just tinkering there's not really any systematic variation
> here, but I just thought I'd throw these variations out there to see if
> people think any of them are workable. Hopefully then a real graphic
> designer will do it properly. :)
>