[boost] Re: Logo... and page design.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-22 15:16:42

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

> David Abrahams wrote:
>
>> Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> 
>>>Seen them, studied them... The most effective ones in the long run
>>> reduce the textual component to the bare minimum. 
>> Okay.  Not sure how that applies here.  Maybe we should drop "C++."
>> :-)
>
> I think that's what both Joaquin and I are saying. Boost by itself, I
> think, is recognizable all by itself. Many people already know what it
> is, well at least many in the developer community. I don't think we
> need the C++ to be explicitly there. And trying to put it there causes
> all kinds of problems because one ends up doing other things to make
> it fit in, re: the "/".

I kind of agree.  Iconography.

Hmm.

I think it's worth pursuing the idea of 

  boost/

where the slash is actually a rocket ascending.  I tried to convey
that with an earlier attempt but it probably didn't communicate.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://www.boost-consulting.com