@Adrián
I didn't even think about that. Will people recognize mediawiki from
the sunflower? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pywikibot-logo-suggestion-mediawiki.svg
@ben
Thanks for the feedback about the text. I use the free and open
http://overpassfont.org/ - I like how the small letters of the font
are at an angle similar to the gears. But I am open for suggestions.
-Tobias
2016-07-14 17:46 GMT+02:00 Ben McIlwain <cydeweys@gmail.com>:
> I like it. My one suggestion is to fix the kerning on "pywikibot" -- the
> letters are spaced too far apart and make the overall logo too stretched out
> horizontally. I suspect with tighter kerning the entire image could fit
> into a square aspect ratio, which is typically what you want for logos.
> What font did you use?
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 5:37 PM Tobias Schönberg <tobias47n9e@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have been already talking on the IRC about an update to the current
>> Pywikibot logo and would like to also announce it here to gather some
>> feedback.
>>
>> The reason for the proposal is mostly to make the project a little
>> more recognizable and to also communicate that the project and the
>> community around it is fun and also accessible to people that have a
>> high technological barrier.
>>
>> The current logo is here:
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pwb_icon.svg [1]
>>
>> It uses yellow and blue that are used by the original Python logo:
>>
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Official_Python_icons_and_direct_derivatives
>>
>> I also looked at this logo and thought it looked quite nice, but I
>> think that removing the gear is loosing a lot of the uniqueness of
>> [1].
>>
>> After some talks on the IRC I made this version, which I think would
>> work really well on stickers and t-shirts as well, which could be
>> distributed at workshops:
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pywikibot_logo_suggestion_3.svg
>>
>> The logo uses the WMF colors and some variants that also use the green are
>> here:
>>
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pywikibot_logo_proposal_2.svg
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pywikibot_logo_proposal.svg
>>
>> I also think it is good to leave the colors more or less open to adapt
>> them according to taste or event theme. So I would mostly like to
>> propose that we change the shape of the logo slightly and include the
>> text to maximize the recognizability.
>>
>> Would be very nice to get more feedback or a simple disagree/agree reply.
>>
>> -Tobias
>>
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