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

From: Rich Johnson (rjohnson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-22 18:21:13

On Monday, November 22, 2004, at 04:44 PM, David Abrahams wrote:

> "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>> Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I'm not a logo expert by any stretch of the imagination... but it
>> seems to me that if you have a rocket, you don't need the text
>> "boost". The rocket is the logo. It needs to have some unique visual
>> features that establish its identity as the "boost/C++" rocket, of
>> course.
>
> Interesting.  But every logo I've seen includes the name of the entity
> it stands for somehow.  Even if the rocket isn't part of some "Boost"
> text, you need to choose a font for "Boost" and decide how it sits
> next to or below the rocket.
>
>
Or _on_  it.  Anternately the  '++' / 'C++' could  be on the rocket.