Design a Logo for XaRT

[mindseye]

I like the symmetrical'ness of the cog and the X.

I'm attaching the gear logo.. It's a bit cleaner and laid out better than what I posted..

x-gear-source1-mindseye.xar


mindseye.

[Gare]

I like the symmetrical'ness of the cog and the X.

I'm attaching the gear logo.. It's a bit cleaner and laid out better than what I posted..

x-gear-source1-mindseye.xar


mindseye.

I love the design AND your approach, mindseye. You're doing something cool with the drop-shadows, very subtle, more like an emboss effect.

@Everyone—If you don't own Fustian, what mindseye did for the subtext, I believe this is a "tribute font" to Frutiger Condensed, they're very similar.

My Best,

Gary

[Gare]

@ Frances—

I love the idea of an on/off toggle switch.

And I can tell you right now it's such a strong icon, that it will fight, not complement the gear.

You got something very strong here. Develop it without the gear. Perhaps use it inside the hole in the lowercase "a"?

-g

[mindseye]

Thanks for the input all..!

@ angelize -

Thank you for addressing the Trademark issue. I should have asked that from the get go.

I don't see a problem with a similar font style, do you?




mindseye / Vic.



EDIT:

Thanks for the font reference -

Take a look at OpenSans as well.

[Rik]

Gary: Thanks for the feedback.
I was thinking of the 'X' inside the gear and thought that it might have a gold look. Black gear and gold X.
I just haven't tried it yet - to see what it might look like.
I shall do that as soon as I get a chance.

I deliberately didn't make the 'X' thicker.
But, it's only when you get feedback, do you know that others might actually like it better with a thicker X.

[Gare]

@all—

I don't see a problem with incorporating the distinctive "x" that The Xara Group used to use on the splash screen.

XaRT is not spelled the same way as "Xara" so naturally there are unavoidable differences, thus you are not copying a logo, thus not infringing on it.

Generally it's good to err on the side of caution, but here we have an open source project designed to work with Xara. Okay, niether Frances nor I are copyright lawyers, so I can't advise anyone.

Would a programmer from The Xara Group like to step in and advise?

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The flip side of this is I think a good designer with a good concept can do an original logo that reminds you of Xara and doesn't copy the text in any way. When I want to get close but not too close, I usually use Antique Olive. I have no idea what Xara actually uses.

-g

[angelize]

Here is another go with the toggle switch idea. The font I used in this one is Gill Sans extra bold condensed. I converted it to shapes and modified the letters a bit so it's not true to the font.