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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't see what is wrong with the old logo.

Also the proposed logo now indicates that we shall write Kicad
stylised as KiCAD and not KiCad. And the border for the CAD part does
not work out right. The font is also boring and wierd, not
"professional'.

I think the placement of the arrow for the "emitter" arm is an attack
on a good transistor symbol... :/

2017-03-03 16:19 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Honestly, I need to reply again here - the more I look at this, the less
> I like it. I really don't want to be too negative about this, but there
> is a lot about this logo that just doesn't work.
>
> - Really bad typography makes it slow to read:
>   - Inconsistent tracking -   K  i    C A D
>   - Inconsistent letter baseline
>
> - The K looks crooked - upper diagonal arm shorter than lower, and the
>   lower one dips under the baseline
>
> - Capitalization is wrong, "CAD" might be the correct acronym but we've
>   pretty consistently spelled our name "KiCad" for a long time
>
> - An anonymous IRCer points out that the lower diagonal arm on the K
>   looks a bit...rude. He's not the only one who sees this.
>
>
> I quite like the original logo, to be entirely honest. Maybe it could be
> improved slightly by changing to a fully sans serif font, but I really
> don't think anything else on it needs to be changed.
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 10:01:05AM -0500, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>> I mostly like this. I'm really not keen on the white outline around the
>> letters though, and it really needs to be adjusted so that the "Ki" and
>> the "CAD" share a baseline - it feels rough to read otherwise.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 04, 2017 at 01:48:44AM +1100, Oliver Walters wrote:
>> > Here is a revised version:
>> >
>> > http://imgur.com/a/DysJm
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Ingo Kletti <ikletti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I like the use of the schematic/pcb elements.
>> > >
>> > > It also looks much better at small scales
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > I tried the scaling and made a mockup at icon resolutions from 16x16 to
>> > > 64x64 with 8 pixel steps (16, 24, 32, etc.), see attachment. Scaling works
>> > > good IMO, but cannot avoid bike-shedding:
>> > >
>> > > On the sizes 16x16 to 32x32, the white border around the 'i' looks muddy
>> > > due to the scaling. Maybe using a brighter orange tone might suffice so
>> > > that the border can be omitted completely without losing contrast.
>> > >
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >
>> > > Ingo
>> > >
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