Logo

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Cyrille Berger Skott
<cberger at cberger.net> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> We are working with Nuno (of oxygen fame) on the Calligra logo, well Nuno is
> going to work, but he has been asking us to brainstorm and to provide idea.
>
> One of the first idea was to use a feather, like one use to draw caligraphic,
> but it was judged to be too "deja vu".
>
> So Casper suggested to use some kind of calligraphic/chinese-like/curvely
> font. Accidently, I have found a font that he thinks could be used as
> inspiration, so I have put the font, a play svg, and a few variations on the
> idea here: http://cyrille.diwi.org/tmp/calligra/logo/
>
> So what do you think about it ? Have any other ideas ?

I'm sorry, but this gets a "thumbs down" from me. While I appreciate
the effort, two cardinal mistakes have been made:

1) You can never, ever, use text in a logo. How would this work in the
Chinese market, or perhaps in Arabia?

2) The font is hard to read. That's the last thing you want.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer, Software Engineer at KO GmbH
Fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe
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