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

Let’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, I’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 didn’t meet requirement 4 becoming just a blue box at 16x16)

  • Logo 1
  • Logo 2
  • Logo 3

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I don’t like any of them. Do you have other alternatives?

a message bus drives into this thread

message-bus-b

the message bus is unstoppable

message-bus

nobody expected a pulse train inside a bus

message-bus-pulse

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

What if I used Russo One?

image

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 “UAVCAN” in its entirety (otherwise we’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!

data-bus

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

… 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, I’m a bad person)

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

Here’s my input for colours

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

a logo using the primary blue colour from that theme:

image

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

Can’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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image

?

bus-simplified

bus-simplified-1700b3

Further reduction:

bus-block-font

final-proposal

  • yes
  • no

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