[TriZPUG] Triangle Built?

[Calvin Spealman]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Chris Calloway <cbc at unc.edu> wrote:
> On 8/7/2012 7:24 AM, Gary Poster wrote:
>>
>> If this is intended to be a marketing tool, I'd expect a more polished and
>> snappy logo.
>
>
> Man, you can't have a logo without a committee. That's bike shedding 101.
>
> Here's what I've learned of late about logos: the simpler the better.
> Basically, you want to picture your logo shrunken down to the size of one of
> those social networking icons at the bottom of bloggy blog posts like those
> facebook "like" links or retweet badges or rss icons. Those icons are
> usually about 10px by 10px. Your logo has to be pretty simple to scale that
> small. Like the simple idea of an anvil silhouette.
>
> Remember how much people hated the redesigned Python logo when it came out?
> I didn't think there would be any end to the wailing, especially from the
> outrage-why-wasn't-I-consulted-outrage contingent. Yeah, and that turned out
> to be a really good logo because it scales well and has excellent color
> contrast when scaled small. I'll take scalable over polished and snappy
> these days.
>
> So I'd rather see Calvin's idea simply have a more scalable color scheme.
> Black on dark red or dark red on black won't dither well.

I have a few other color schemes suggested by Julia I'd like to try
out. The black and red isn't received well.

> Also, when I saw Calvin propose this idea, I didn't hear him to say it was
> Python-specific. Just that there are a lot of web developers around here,
> like the Boston Built idea.

Absolutely right. I'd love this passed around to other groups and see
what the interest is outside our smaller community.

I don't know how to actually go about coordinating that, tho... every
group talks through different mediums.

> Anyway, there are about fifty million marketing, design, and civic
> boosterism groups around the Triangle, some with several hundreds of
> members. I bet those one of those groups would be a good home for this
> excellent idea.
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
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