[TriZPUG] Triangle Built?

[Calvin Spealman]

I love the badges, Omar! I think this shows the versatility of the
anvil icon being recognizable in different formats and scales, and we
don't even need to stick to a single color. We could offer a range of
colors to match the site being deployed on.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:27 PM, Omar Estrella <gzusfr3ak at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought Id give this a try. I decided to make small "badges." I
> didnt have any fonts that would fit well in there, so I just used
> Arial. It should be changed, as it doesnt really look well. They could
> be made larger, colors changed, etc.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/wsac0r6sibq3ayi/tforged.png
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/ioih56qlpyz2rcs/tforged.psd (dropbox
> displays this as corrupted image)
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Calvin Spealman <ironfroggy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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,
>>>
>>> Chris Calloway http://nccoos.org/Members/cbc
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