Hey Bart, > I'm still not especially excited by the open circles at the ends of the Z (what are they meant to convey?) Noted. TBH nothing, just a design idea they had. > but among the first five suggestions in this round I prefer the color scheme of #2 (the black background). I otherwise essentially agree with Phil's comments. Awesome noted. @everyone else, doing my best to respond. Got a few fires to put out this week. Regards, Justin Dorfman @jdorfman On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 11:46 AM Bart Schaefer wrote: > I'm still not especially excited by the open circles at the ends of the Z > (what are they meant to convey?) but among the first five suggestions in > this round I prefer the color scheme of #2 (the black background). I > otherwise essentially agree with Phil's comments. > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2019, 11:22 AM Philippe Troin wrote: > >> Justin, >> >> I'll throw in my 2 cents. >> First thanks for the work, it looks great. >> >> From all 10 icons in this round, my personal favorite is copy 3. >> I like the subdued Z graphic, and the name of the project being clearly >> visible. >> If I had to change a couple of things, I would try: >> * using lower case instead of small caps: this is the way I think most >> people see the string "zsh" in their daily life. >> * using italic, so that "zsh" slants the same way as the stylized Z, >> giving a sense of forward motion. >> * Maybe I'd try extending the bottom horizontal part of the stylized Z >> and have the string "zsh" or "sh" rendered over this extended bottom >> Z leg. Scuse' the ASCII graphics and wrong aspect ratio: >> o---, >> / >> / zsh >> / >> `--------------o >> >> This is what I don't like about some other logos: >> * For logos 6-10, I don't really see "zsh" initially, just "sh". It >> takes an extra step to think about or see "zsh" in the logo. Maybe >> making the stylized Z smaller would help here. >> * I think number 4 is too dark/heavy. >> * I don't like the font on number 5, just a personal taste. >> * I don't like the bottom vertical alignment on number 2, it doesn't >> feel natural. >> * In number 1, I think that "zsh" all lower-case would work better >> than the initialed "Zsh", see first bullet above for the rationale. >> >> Thank you again for the great looking logos! >> >> Phil. >> >> On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 19:45 -0700, Justin Dorfman wrote: >> > Hey Everyone, >> > >> > I gave our designer the feedback and this is what he came back with >> > https://cl.ly/aca8f4c2ecab >> > >> > I think the icons are great, but the wordmarks need work. I've been >> > playing >> > with different fonts and I'm just not happy yet >> > https://cl.ly/b92d660678b9 >> > >> > Look forward to your feedback. >> > >> > >> > Regards, >> > >> > Justin Dorfman >> > @jdorfman >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:55 AM Sebastian Gniazdowski < >> > sgniazdowski@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 at 12:13, Stephane Chazelas >> > > wrote: >> > > > 2019-06-27 16:20:31 -0700, Bart Schaefer: >> > > > [...] >> > > > > Now that you mention it, I'm curious how orange and black got >> > > > > chosen >> > > > > in the first place? Is it because zsh was invented at >> > > > > Princeton? >> > > > [...] >> > > > >> > > > Sorry for throwing a completely unrelated idea late to the >> > > > party, but when the idea of a new zsh logo was first mentioned, >> > > > one thing that came to my mind was a "ZSH" made with multicolor >> > > > lego bricks to reflect the multi-faced, modular nature of zsh >> > > > (and it can be shaped any way you want; playdough would also >> > > > work there I guess). >> > > > >> > > > Maybe not the best image for a shell as lego bricks may convey >> > > > some "building" meaning which do not as directly apply to a >> > > > shell as to other tools. >> > > >> > > I would agree that the lego bricks convey the 'building" meaning, >> > > which to me appears as a "free your mind" sense, which if shared >> > > among >> > > other people would be an useful one for Zsh as the message to >> > > convey >> > > about itself. >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Sebastian Gniazdowski >> > > News: https://twitter.com/ZdharmaI >> > > IRC: https://kiwiirc.com/client/chat.freenode.net:+6697/#zplugin >> > > Blog: http://zdharma.org >> > > >> >>