PR preparations for the upcoming UAVCAN v1.0 release: new website, new logo

Note taken. Tossing aside v0 is very important, but we can be less drastic here. I have amended the new website with a header link to the old website:

While v1 is still a WIP, it is important to communicate that until it is released, UAVCAN itself is in the state of WIP, too; one should not expect stability from v0.

Do you think this is adequate?

As I commented on during the dev-call this week: I disagree with this requirement. There arenā€™t enough pixels/ink dedicated to logos to convey meaningful technical information. We should choose a ā€œpretty pictureā€ and imbue this icon with meaning through association.

Besides, with your ā€œUā€ logo I just see a ā€œUā€ with a pusher propeller :wink:

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As discussed on the dev-call: Iā€™d like to keep v0 front-and-center until:

  1. The v1 specification has been released and weā€™ve had some time to get feedback.
  2. We have at least 1 full reference implementation available.

Once these two milestones have been reached we can discuss flipping the website messaging to be ā€œv1ā€ first with ā€œv0ā€ as a link.

When we do this flip we need to provide careful guidance for v0 support and a porting plan. I really want to let people know that v0 is still supported and weā€™ll accept patches to the reference implementations but that that specification is fixed and will not change.

Letā€™s settle this like men through voting.

  • Pretty picture
  • Communicate idea

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Seeing as nobody submitted any alternative proposals, we are basically choosing between my logo and your logo:

Indeed, we have this tracked here: https://github.com/UAVCAN/specification/issues/20

Okay. Bring on your pretty pictures.

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:grimacing: sorry Pavel.

Well, Iā€™m not a graphic designer so other proposals are welcome but of the ones I submitted what do people like best? (I got rid of the square one because it didnā€™t meet requirement 4 becoming just a blue box at 16x16)

  • Logo 1
  • Logo 2
  • Logo 3

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I donā€™t like any of them. Do you have other alternatives?

a message bus drives into this thread

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the message bus is unstoppable

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nobody expected a pulse train inside a bus

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:smiley: (no one expects to bike-shed over a logo!)

What if I used Russo One?

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Logo is important.

I do not have strong feelings towards any particular font face.

The option 2 could be okay if we spelled the word ā€œUAVCANā€ in its entirety (otherwise weā€™re kind of promoting the old acronym). And possibly added a second line on top, representing the roof of a bike shed.

Not impressed by a pulse bus? Try data bus!

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Scales quite well, too: data-bus

Do you want to vote over what accent color will be used first?
Recommendations: https://material.io/design/color/the-color-system.html#color-usage-palettes

ā€¦ and then we can come up with something that semantically represents the purpose of this library. I may sketch something up in photoshop later

Do you want to vote over what accent color will be used first?

It should be a superintelligent shade of blue.

This concept represents a regular bike shed:

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This font very decidedly evokes the United States Navy. It looks like the name on the side of an aircraft carrier.

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(sorry, Iā€™m a bad person)

You have to be very careful with block fonts. Most evoke either collegiate sports or the military.

Hereā€™s my input for colours

https://color.adobe.com/UAVCAN-color-theme-12106273/

a logo using the primary blue colour from that theme:

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I grow weary of this thread. Save us @Zarkopafilis!

Canā€™t win, can we? I suggest we just go with Comic Sans.

I swear I will hire a professional designer unless we agree on something very soon. Yes, this is a threat.

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