[Autocrypt] first autocrypt logo drafts!
Mallory Knodel
mallory at mayfirst.org
Wed May 31 02:10:48 EDT 2017
Hi all,
Looks like a good discussion. And sorry to be that person who pipes up
after the fact. But venetian blinds on a window immediately connotes to
me the threat of a peeping tom[0], imagery that risks an intense,
gendered reaction.
-Mallory
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Godiva#Peeping_Tom
On 30/05/17 08:40 PM, azul wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We discussed the logos at the meeting tonight. We agreed clouds or fog
> are not good metaphors. Images also need to work at small scale so too
> much detail in most of them. Two of the 5 people involved saw the
> images on page 5 and 6 as referring to window blinds. If that's the
> intention it's not conveyed strongly enough. I attached a less subtle
> take on window blinds. It's not meant as a final proposal for a logo.
> I just like the metaphor because for me it conveys usable privacy.
>
> For the record here's an excerpt from the irc logs:
>
>> 14:31 < azul> I'm fine with talking about them now for a moment. My
>> main point
>> is to ask people to give feedback in some form until
>> the ned of
>> the week.
>> 14:31 < Valodim> tbh, I'm not particularly in love with either of them :\
>> 14:32 < azul> I don't like the cloud ones because cloud has a very
>> strong
>> association that is exactly the oposite of what we want.
>> 14:33 < azul> I'm also not sure fog is a good metaphor.
>> 14:33 < azul> ahh... i'm pretty sure it's not is probably closer to
>> waht i want
>> to say.
>> 14:34 < Valodim> one impression I had was that i'm not sure if they
>> work when
>> scaled to actual icon size? I'm trying to make them
>> smaller
>> right now but my pdf viewer won't let me :)
>> 14:34 < dkg> i agree that the cloud is the wrong metaphor
>> 14:34 < dkg> and fog :)
>> 14:35 < juga> i've looked the logos, agree with azul and Valodim
>> 14:35 < azul> I'm not sure if its' the intention but page 5 and the
>> upper ones
>> on page 6 remind me of those things you have in front
>> of windows
>> that you can close.
>> 14:35 < Valodim> curtains?
>> 14:36 < azul> not curtains - but the horizontal ones.
>> 14:36 < dkg> the @ with the pixelated right-hand-side was the most
>> convincing
>> to me, but it doesn't convey any of the ideas about ease or
>> usability.
>> 14:36 < Valodim> oh, you meant page six not seven
>> 14:36 < dkg> azul: in en_US those are "venetian blinds"
>> 14:36 < azul> i kind of like that as a metaphore.
>> 14:36 < dkg> and it took me a while to figure out that was what they
>> were
>> trying to be
>> 14:36 < dkg> it looked to me instead like a censor who had removed
>> some pieces
>> of the e-mail
>> 14:36 < juga> azul: i also didn't realized until you said
>> 14:37 < azul> I agree it could be stronger.
>> 14:37 < dkg> (i've just been re-reading Catch-22, though, so i may
>> have been
>> mis-primed)
>> 14:38 < azul> I think the left to right fade does not make it easier.
>> 14:39 < dkg> right, venetian blinds don't fade like that ;)
>> 14:40 < azul> anything else about the logos?
>> 14:40 < Valodim> almost all of the icons seem to have far too fine
>> detail to
>> work at 48x48
>> 14:40 < juga> not from me
>> 14:41 < azul> I htink hpk can read the backlog and wanted to give his
>> own
>> feedback end of the week
>> 14:41 < Valodim> (I gave up convincing my pdf viewer, made a
>> screenshot and
>> resized that - maybe it works better if scaled down
>> from the
>> vectors)
>> 14:41 < azul> Valodim: i agree.
>> 14:41 < dkg> Valodim: agreed
>> 14:42 < azul>
>> http://thumb1.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/1062986/505174333/stock-vector-vector-line-icons-with-drapes-window-covering-different-styles
>> -of-draperies-curtains-and-blinds-505174333.jpg
>> 14:43 < azul> It's possible to have window blinds at low size. ;)
>> 14:44 < azul> anyway. I think we can just give this feedback to the
>> illustrator
>> and wait for the next iteration.
>> 14:44 < azul> At least that is my understanding.
>
>
> Am 26.05.2017 um 12:32 schrieb holger krekel:
>> Gero has just sent me his first drafts of autocrypt logos ... please
>> find them attached as a 13-page PDF. Happy to hear your thoughts
>> about the ones you like and/or post further suggestions.
>>
>> The cryptpad where we collected initial suggestions for Gero is here:
>> https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/1/edit/jXBBUrU606OIWPwFQqM4vw/3SPn+dgR9jBao0XuRlA97rOe/
>>
>> I suggest to let the logos and their critiques sink a bit and try get
>> back to Gero by end of next week. And maybe we can finalize our choice then
>> during the upcoming autocrypt summer gathering 9-12th June in Freiburg, Germany:
>> https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/1/edit/TAr6vywr+wPmm2mJfev9iA/PAmQOb+BxPPfPmlizN5o0ZBi/
>>
>> cheers,
>> holger
>>
>> P.S.: i spontanously like several of the drafts, am printing the PDF and will ponder ...
>> maybe gather some "user" feedback from people around me ...
>>
>>
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