[Tango-artists] Logo for GNOME Accessibility

Andreas Nilsson nisses.mail at home.se
Fri Feb 8 06:31:25 PST 2008


Calum Benson wrote:
>
> On 31 Jan 2008, at 14:45, Willie Walker wrote:
>
>> Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Willie!
>>> Sorry that it took a while before you got any response.
>>> Did this for the ATK section on the new gtk.org website:
>>> http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/a11y.png
>>> http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/a11y.svg
>>>
>>> cc:ing tango-artists in the hope of more ideas.
>>
>> Neat!  I'm going to be seeing some a11y folks today and will pass this
>> by them.  It matches various other icons in the space and is very 
>> simple.
>
> Don't wish to sound too critical here, but to me, this doesn't so much 
> say "GNOME accessibility logo", as "identical to Apple's accessibility 
> logo, but without the circle round it":
>
> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
>
> No, I have no idea what a more GNOME-ified accessibility logo would 
> look like, but it sure would be nice to have one :)
>
Hi Calum.
Yeah, you´re right, it looks too much like their logo. I guess they took 
the idea from our old friend Leonardo as well :). [1]
Perhaps it would be interesting to do something on the theme of the 
Vitruvian Man, but in another style?
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man
- Andreas


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