Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 May 1996 22:55:05 +0200 | From | Henrik Storner <> | Subject | Re: Linux logo |
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Johan Myreen writes:
[doesn't want a logo that attacks *bsd nor microsoft - I agree 100%]
>My vote goes for a simple, professionally done and easily recognizable >symbol. (I know, it isn't easy.) Isn't that what a logo is all about, a >simple symbol done with style, which immediately makes the viewer think of >the product it symbolizes?
Absolutely. If you look at many of the logos that have been suggested for the 2.0 logo competition (see the suggestions at http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~jeremiah/linux-pix/linux-logo.html), most of these aren't logos - they are *pictures* that look nice on a computer screen, but are hopeless as a logo. If something is to be a useful logo, a minimum requirement must be that it looks good *on paper*, not only on a monitor.
My personal favorite among the suggestions is the Philipp Reissner's "mylogo.jpg" - a simple "Linux" with "Revision 2.0" above it, written in a nicely colored but not overdone way. I will be using it for the LPP press release for Linux 2.0 here in Denmark.
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