[Ffmpeg-devel] FFmpeg logo

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:34:50PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
> 
> > M?ns Rullg?rd <mans at mansr.com> writes:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Last year we never managed to decide on a logo in time for LinuxTag.
> >> I'm hoping we might be able to do better this year, so I've made a
> >> couple of variants based on one of the ideas I liked best from last
> >> year's discussions.
> >>
> >> My sketches are based on the zigzag scan used in MPEG2 video.  The
> >> first has a full 8x8 scan.  I though this looked a bit cluttered, so I
> >> took the artistic freedom of reducing it to 4x4, resulting in the
> >> second version.  The last one is for interlacing aficionados only.
> >> I'm afraid it might not go down too well with the crowd...
> >>
> >> Now I'm waiting for you all to bring out your best artistic talent,
> >> and come up with some better ideas.  Or failing that, at least show me
> >> some different ideas.  Failing that too, well, in that case, don't
> >> bother.  Write some code instead.
> >>
> >> Remember, this is a logo, not a painting, so try to keep it simple.
> >> Avoid small details and excessive use of color.
> >
> > Well, a few days have passed, and the discussion seems to have calmed
> > down.  I have collected all the suggestions/ideas that were posted
> > (not last year's) on a web page:
> >
> > http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/~mru/ffmpeg-logo/
> >
> > Please have a look, and report back with some opinions.
> 
> More samples for review at the same URL.  I have also scaled/cropped
> some of the old ones so now all are roughly the same size.

ok comments below all IMHO, also i suggest to remove some as this is becoming
quite a long list 

1. looks ok
2. looks ok
3. too thin
4/5 ugly italics and too thin id say remove we have enough similar logos
6. dunno the >> is somehow not fitting in but iam not strongly opposed
7/8 one should be removed they are fairly similar (i like neither ...)
9. i do like this somehow and somehow something is missing
10.looks ok
11 looks ok
12 ugly big FF maybe it would be ok with a different font
13 looks ok
14/15 one should be removed, id vote got removing 14
16 interrsting idea and it looks nice but i think it fails as a logo
17/18/19/20 look ok
21/23 i dunno too similar too various non ffmpeg logos IMHO
22 looks silly too much like a VCR button list
26/28 i dont like the triple >> id vote for removing them
29/30 i do prefer the zigzag logo
31 looks ok
32 significantly too thin
33 theres some glitches in the thing like in the M
34  the 2 parts somehow look seperate and not like 1 logo
35. the idea is good, the way the 2 are combined is not
36. very nice, more detailed comments in another reply ...

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