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04-30-2009, 12:35 PM | #34 |
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Well I really like the art work!
My opinion is we should refrain from using any words like "ePUB". For several reasons 1) This is an international logo 2) Logos get re sized and if this logo gets reduced to 16x16 or 8x8 the text will be illegible and the logo will not be recognized. |
04-30-2009, 01:04 PM | #35 |
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Okay here is what I was thinking of (Warning These are really ugly but the concpet is there, I hope people can see past my artistic skill)
The logo are 100x100 and 50x50 The idea behind one logo are as follow Book+liberty torch: Liberated ePUB (without DRM) Book+globe (Format to dominate the world): One eBook format to be accepted and used across the contents Book + unity logo: It's the Mayan Unity sign Essentially one eBook format that unites: publishers + eReading devices + countries around the world. Last edited by =X=; 04-30-2009 at 01:07 PM. |
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Well, I have the "final" versions of these logos. Note I'm not suggesting they are the best possible, they're just a suggested modification of the logos already available at http://threepress.org/epub/logos. I did versions with and without shadow. For the moment they are in http://djelibeibi.unex.es/files/freepub.htm, but I don't know how long I'll keep them there, is there enough interest to upload them to the wiki or something?
Personally, I'm not sure the DRM tag is a good idea, it seems to say the opposite from what we want to say. PS. The SVG versions have a wrong page size (I couldn't get it right with Inkscape) and need the Steelfish font. |
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I really like the 2nd Icon the "e" in the globe silhouette.
I wonder if you could remove the "PUB" and "Liberated" and put the e globe around a book silhouette. Like this. With your artistic skills I think you can make it look really nice. =X= |
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Yes, reload the page. At the bottom there are 100px and 50px versions. At 50px they look terrible, but the idea (or my idea ) was not to use them as small icons for files, but as a logo to put in web pages, covers, books, etc. At 100px I think they are fine.
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04-30-2009, 06:51 PM | #42 |
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I like the idea of wanting a universal logo but you are making it much too complex; it is a simple message that you want to get across. The logo should be (1) universally recognizable even by someone who cannot read an alphabetic language and (2) can be made small enough to be placed next to a book in a list such as the book list you get at Fictionwise.
Try something simple, like a stylized e with a minus sign to indicate DRM-free and the same stylized e with a plus sign to indicate DRM. As much as I would like all books to be available in DRM-free ePub, that is not realistic over the short-term, so what we should want is simply an icon that tells us whether the particular book is DRM-free or DRM-laden. I also think certain things are unnecessary. For example, it seems to me to be unnecessary to spell out that the format is ePub. It is also unnecessary to use words to indicate DRM-free. |
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Maybe the stylized e-with-red-crescent logo with wings for no DRM, or attached to a lock (or an anchor) for ePub with DRM.
I don't like "plus" for "with DRM" and "minus" for "without DRM;" it implies that DRM-free books are lacking something, rather than that they are more accessible. The symbol needs to be:
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04-30-2009, 10:57 PM | #44 |
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just a quick attempt...
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04-30-2009, 11:05 PM | #45 |
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Dangerously similar to the Internet Explorer icon.
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