Rockbox Logo...

[Yotto]

I played with the logo a bit, keeping as true to the original while introducing the diagonal on the R. I "cheated" by expanding each "pixel" to a 2x2 block to make the diagonal look smoothish, while not losing all of its blockiness.



I don't actually think this should replace the default logo or anything. I was just curious how it'd look and was happy with the result. I am a fan, though, of a square logo that will shrink down well. This would shrink down to 18x18 which is pretty small.

[[Saint]]

I "cheated" by expanding each "pixel" to a 2x2 block to make the diagonal look smoothish, while not losing all of its blockiness.

That looks smooth to you?

It's in serious need of shading, as opposed to solid black/white.

EDIT: It'd need to scale to 12x12 to be used also, can it go that low?

[St.]

[Yotto]

I "cheated" by expanding each "pixel" to a 2x2 block to make the diagonal look smoothish, while not losing all of its blockiness.

That looks smooth to you?

I said ish!

It's in serious need of shading, as opposed to solid black/white.

Well, I wanted to make it as simple as possible, so it's not just black and white, its a 2-color palate.

EDIT: It'd need to scale to 12x12 to be used also, can it go that low?

[St.]

It does not, at least not smooth(ish)ly, as you need 2 pixels for each horizontal/vertical line, and 6 pixels for each large box. That's a total of 2+2+2+6+6=18 pixels.

You *could* shrink the outside lines to 1 pixel each, and make the larger boxes the size of the small upper-right box (shrinking the upper right box accordingly):


And for fun, here's it with some fuzziness. I am not an artist (in spite of my tag. I am more of a theme-writer than anything else) so am not sure if this is what you were thinking:

[bluebrother]

There's only one thing I think is a candidate for a new logo: the one currently used as icon in various places


This looks quite nice while still keeping the spirit of Rockbox.

[Llorean]

I'd definitely prefer something symbolic rather than something composed of the letters.

[[Saint]]

There's only one thing I think is a candidate for a new logo:

[St.] nods...

I'm using the Rockbox clef logo in my 24px iconset for RaaA, and it looks quite nice.
The original version I used for the 24px iconset (I think it's still on the tracker...) used the square "Rb" logo that I really like:

It scales really well too.

I *prefer* the "Rb" logo personally as I think it fits in better with the boot splash, forum/theme site/wiki logo(s) etc.

But I believe the "Rockbox Clef" is the more /traditional/ choice.


[St.]

[JdGordon]

You mean like this?



it's actualy not a bad idea- very simple and easy to recognize.

what on earth? I'm going to go ahead and agree with bluebrother and [St.] on this one... we have a logo and it would need to be something amazing for us to think it is time to replace it!

[AlexP]

To be honest, I think:



looks pretty terrible whatever you do to it.  I'm not a fan of the MS Paint look

[Llorean]

I believe that logo was only being discussed in the context of targets like the Clip, low resolution and Mono. It's just scaled up for better visibility. Everythings going to have the "MS Paint" look under those circumstances.

[bluebrother]

I'm using the Rockbox clef logo in my 24px iconset for RaaA, and it looks quite nice.
The original version I used for the 24px iconset (I think it's still on the tracker...) used the square "Rb" logo that I really like:

It scales really well too.

Unfortunately it doesn't scale down very well -- if used as window icon (with the usual size of 16x16px) it's not really recognizable anymore. Which is (at least according to my understanding) the initial reason for the clef logo variant. The "Rb" variant is used as larger icon for Rockbox Utility on systems that allow specifying different icons for different sizes (Windows, OS X) but I wouldn't mind switching to the clef logo for all sizes instead. Same goes for other places were a rectangular icon does make sense. The clef logo just looks "cleaner" in the icon case.

We could even add the clef as icon to the executables for other Rockbox tools (like ipodpatcher, sansapatcher etc) on Windows so it shows it after downloading the binaries. Not that it's useful ...

[AlexP]

I believe that logo was only being discussed in the context of targets like the Clip, low resolution and Mono. It's just scaled up for better visibility. Everythings going to have the "MS Paint" look under those circumstances.

OK, yes.  I'd have to see it on an actual display to tell in that case.

[froggyman]

I'd like to propose that we spell out the new logo with llamas, because they truly make everything better.

[ZincAlloy]

 

[evilnick]

If only http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Minter had founded Rockbox in the first place.