Meeting minutes - 16/09/2005

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:16 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 9/15/05, Greg DeKoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Peter Jones wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, it kindof looks like a cartoon thought-balloon with that
> > > placement.
> > 
> > Yes, it does.  That was exactly the point, aiui.  :)
> 
> careful... thought balloons.. and speech balloons are actually
> distinct. I thought the point was to be indicative of voice or
> speech...not "inner monologue"
> 
> It would feel more distinctly like a speech balloon to me if there was
> a hint of the more tradition speech balloon curving tail at the lower
> left corner instead of the hard right angle.
> http://www.capstrat.com/development/fedora/fedoraLogo_09.jpg
> 
..or if it was stretched a little more horizontally.

> As I stare at that shape on its own.. i keep thinking ive seen that
> shape used in another context....in software somewhere... but i can't
> put my finger on it.

Real has a blue speech bubble logo.  We aren't treading too close to
that, are we?

I think there's also some logo with an orange speech bubble that is even
closer in shape but I can't quite put my finger one that one either....

-Toshio

P.S. This logo looks nice and could look even nicer with outlining and
other tweaks but I don't think of Fedora when I see it or hear the
slogan.

P.P.S. The look of the logo reminds me of one of those twisty puzzle
toys made of linked colored plastic elbows... Kinda like this:
http://www.veghead.com/reptiles/tanglesnake.jpg


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