Rockbox Logo...

[iPodFoo]

Nice.

Ive made two subtley different variations with the colours for completists sake.  

ps. Anyone know what font was used for it?

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[mightybrick]

Hey alfred.

I like it too. But the logo is upside down!!! Unless there was some reason for that Im not aware of. Its meant to be visible as an R.

Attached is the right way up version.

I think the appearance of an R was just coincidence.  I think the artist was trying to emphasize the musical aspect of Rockbox by placing a quarter note in a box, and the upside-down R was coincidental.

[lowlight]

I don't know...looks too similar in style to the Zune logo.

[Genre9mp3]

as i mentioned above, i took it from needleboy's logo

Just for the record, the logo is made by jeanreno and it was then used by needleboy (and later paulheu) on their experimental builds. Here are some more aspects of it:

http://www.misticriver.net/showpost.php?p=403283&postcount=30

And yes, it's nice. Sleek and elegant... I still prefer the old one, though.

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I'll use this as my signature just to oppose to this "change the current logo" madness! :p

[iPodFoo]

mightybrick

quarter note in a boxemphasize the musical aspect of Rockbox by placing a quarter note in a box

Oh yeah. I see it now. But I still think its far more logical to have it as an R. Makes alot more sense that way. I think its too obscure with the quarter note.

[PaulPosition]

Oh, it's still a quarter note even upside down anyway, just look at any Mozart, Chopin or whatever sheet music.

[Cassandra]

Despite not liking the current logo, I've still not seen anything that's leapt out at me and said "yes, that's worth the effort of getting our stationary changed"*.

The Bagder logo did make me lose sanity points though.

* No, we don't have stationary.  But you take the point.

[Llorean]

Yeah, the current logo to an extent extends to the themeing of the entire site. A change of logo with a dramatic change of feel (as many of these do) would suggest that a lot of other things needed to fall into line.

[alfred]

@genre9mp3
ah! it's interesting to see that jeanreno used to different colors for 'rock' and 'box': needleboy dropped that and (without knowing) it i restored jeanreno's original idea by copying from senab. funny...

i prefer senab's font, though. i like the 'c' in 'rock' better.


@all
i don't think the logo has to change as long as rockbox sounds as it does. it's just fun to play with the logo and explore people's tastes.

[Skyly]

I agree with haibane that yellow isn't doing wonders for the logo. The Yellow Pages logo is certainly recognisable, but I see it as immediately ugly too. What decade did that come from anyway?

The current logo says "Under Construction". That's what it is saying, just spelt differently. Industrial and not full price yet because its still dodgy. The yellow and the big black letters with bits of black sticking out everywhere, corners not quite cut off precisely, its all very construction friendly and consumer unfriendly.

Imagine the current logo with the silver taken out of it. Not very enticing. That, and the G-clef with its shadow, are all that stand out in my opinion.

I think the logo is perfect for the website, because continued development is what this place is all about. Just not for the players; that's where the end result is being used. When someone fires up their jukebox for personal enjoyment, they don't want it to remind them that its still a work in progress. They (might) want something that looks sleek, deep, and extremely confident of just how much better it is than the original firmware.

So I'd rather see the logo that is used on the actual players being all about that kind of presentation. Then it would be alot easier to design a very polished/cool bootup screen around it.

[dan_a]

I really like Alfred's all grey logo.  It's clean, and I imagine it would look good both on a small LCD screen and on a T-shirt.

[alfred]

let me set that straight: it's jeanreno's logo with a touch of senab! i'm not the artist, rather a critic.

[hotwire]

Nobody has stated what I'm seeing, but in this logo where everyone is seeing the R, I'm actually seeing a lowercase 'r'.  It's not that abstract.

I think it works.  No practical application as a desktop icon, but it would work as one.

On 2nd thought.  I wonder if given the fact that CDs and DVDs have their own icons that show up in windows explorer that a rockbox device acting as a USB mass storage device could have that icon in windows explorer (or other file manager depending on the OS)

[Febs]

I just want to point out that before Rockbox could ever use this as a logo, we would need to get jeanreno's permission.

[Chill]

Hi

I'm quite a fan of the original logo, and have no particular desire to see it changed.  However, whilst reading this thread, it struck me that the two O's in rockbox might work quite well as the speakers on a portable radio, so I mocked this up to see how it might look.  I kept the current colour scheme, but other colours might work better.

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