[Clipart] logo contest

[Jon Phillips]

Man, you guys should post on the WIKI about the logo contest and
suggestions and put link on the news blurb on this...would help.

Jon


On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 20:59, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> Nicu Buculei <nicu at apsro.com> writes:
> 
> > that i want to see is some style guidelines for the logo:
> 
> > - the title should be openclipart.org, openclipart, Open Clip Art
> >   Project, Open ClipArt Library etc.
> 
> IMO, those are all *way* too long to go in a logo.  A logo needs to be
> clearly recognizeable at a glance, at a distance.  It needs to be
> recognizeable scaled down to icon sizes (32x32 or 48x48 pixels for
> desktops; ideally it should even be recognizeable at bookmark icon
> size, 16x16 pixels, though that's asking a lot).
> 
> Though if we get larger submissions, we might still be able to use
> them in the website e.g. as banners, to spruce things up a bit.
> 
> > - content: abstract vs. descriptive (mascot?)
> 
> I'm ambivalent about whether it's abstract or representative.
> 
> > - colors: keep the number of colors low (for printing, t-shirts
> > etc.) or no ...and more
> 
> Yeah.  Ideally it should be clearly recognizeable desaturated (i.e.,
> greyscale), so adjascent colors need to have good gamma contrast.  And
> yes, keeping the number of colors down is good, though I would
> hesitate to set a hard limit.
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