Firs let me say, especially with this 2nd version, good work on this! I've personally worked on revising this logo about 3 times, trashing my work after a bit because it's such a difficult logo to get right. I would like to see a few of the other artists in our community also take a stab at revising it. The typical process is to collect a few different versions and take a vote, we should probably just follow suit with that.
As for the colors - I think there's no reason for MediaWiki's logo to conform to the WMF color scheme. MediaWiki, like Wikipedia has it's own community of which some WMF staff are a part of - it's totally reasonable for them to have their own identity.
That said, Yellow is a difficult color to work with and get right, so I will be interested to see if much can be done to improve this at all, or if we've essentially peaked already.
Perhaps we can start a page somewhere around http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:MediaWiki_logos to perform this process?
- Trevor
On 11/12/10 10:45 AM, Leo wrote:
Markus Krötzsch<markus<at> semantic-mediawiki.org> writes:
On 11/11/2010 21:37, Marco Schuster wrote:
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 9:07 PM, David Gerard<dgerard<at> gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 November 2010 19:55, MZMcBride<z<at> mzmcbride.com> wrote:
The muted colors are a nice start, but I think the yellow still really sticks out when the logos are presented as a family. Maybe the petal color could be changed?
I think this not being a photo does not make it better than the photo version. It's entirely unclear there's enough of a problem to be solved here.
I think it does look better than the older version, nice work.
+1
I think this is already an improvement, though more could be done (e.g. get rid of the shadow completely, maybe use a slightly warmer yellow or more of a colour fade). For comparison: I recently re-designed the SMW logo completely, picking up the MW flower theme. The result is at:
http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Logo
No shadows there, but more heavy bordering lines. Essentially two colours. Some prominent colour transitions and blur to add some life.
Markus
Based on the input, here's another draft: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2.svg
The shadows are gone (as well as the black outline of the petals) and the whole thing more simplified to better fit the "basic shapes look" of the other logos.
I tried a version with red petals (as red is the only realistic color out of red, blue& green) but I'm not a huge fan of it. It would as well mean giving up the tournesol aspect (as there are no red tournesols) The red version is here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mediawiki_logo_reworked_2-red.svg
Leo
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