[Update, 18th March 2007: Timo sent us an updated version: "A small update, added some soft outlines to make the logo more visible on bright backgrounds."]
[Update, 19th March 2007: Timo just keeps polishing this one! "Added a bunch of blur filters, tweaked the gradients a bit."]
7 comments:
This is much better than your original. It's really a clever combination of the X and 2 that seems so obvious yet I never would have thought it up. It's prominent and memorable, the only suggestion I have is to make better use of the empty space on the larger rendering.
I agree with puzzles, but what bothers me is that it's not exactly an X and.. what is it? :) The fact that she shape does not recall something clear weakens the otherwise interesting concept. The extremities are also a bit too light in my opinion.
Very nice abstract combination..
The outline should help a bit with the light extremities; I'd rather not darken them, it'd make the gradients too flat. The shape might be a bit far away from an X, but then again a plain X would be boring :)
Puzzles: any ideas on how to fill the empty space?
I like that it is a symbol that easily can be drawn by hand on a paper.
The really nice thing with a shape as logo is that colors and things can be changed when fashion changes, but keeping the shape.
Timo,
I'm not very creative so forgive me if these ideas are a bit lame. But I thought up a couple ideas for more efficient use of space. One is to just put some simple words or a tagline in the empty spaces. Maybe just "XMMS2 Music Player" split around the top and sides. Another idea, and I think I like this one a little better, is to echo the shape of the brass in little waves coming off of the sides.
Here is some lame ASCII:
v
>>X<<
^
Of course you could make it a lot softer or thinner as they radiate outwards. ASCII isn't too good for that. ;)
The problem with waves on the sides is that the logo is already rather wide. But I'll play around and see how it works.
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