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Here's my conceptual idea...

somebody tell me what you think...

my opinion is:
-we need to move away from the ubuntu brand and create an individual mint brand
-an image of a leaf should be present in any way shape or form
-I came up with an idea that it might be a good base to have letter L and M (standing for Linux Mint) in the logo, with L flipped, so they are merged - got the idea from the Fedora's "f" forming the infinity sign...


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tell me what you all think
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possibly reverse the LM as it is difficult to recognise it as an L that way round, but is would still be possible to recognise the M if it was reversed.
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Hi,

I want to encourage new ideas and so I hesitated to post here, but the truth is I really don't like it. It's all very subjective I know.. don't really know what to say..

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:lol: that's okay clem...

I'm just throwing ideas out here... not putting on ANY polish, just trying to find some kind of an outline of what might be good...
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can anybody tell me what's that font that carlos used in his new logo badges?
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That my friend, is custom. I forgot what font I based it off of, but some of the letters are customized, its all part of the logo.
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okay, thanks...

I've went through all the fonts and all I could find was one that was REALLY similar, but not identical... hehe :D
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Yeah Just work off of what you found its probably a good base.
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How about a stylised leaf? I worked on carlos' base, making it more roundish, a lot simpler and loosing the letters...

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I was thinking about adding a single water droplet to symbolise freshness, but I just didn't find a way to do it...
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As much as I like your concept, it looks really great. I have to totally disagree with it.

Take a look. http://haveamint.com/

This is by a very well know designer/developer and it is extremely similar to his leaf logo, which is well known throughout the industry. Very strong brand recognition. Like I've said before leaf logos are super tricky cause there are so many and its very easy to duplicate others by accident.

The left concept is a good start and its actually where I'm heading with my revision. Great minds think alike. :wink:
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whoah... bloody hell it's almost the same :lol: :lol: :lol:
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There how about this one? :lol:



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I hope everybody realised that one was just a joke :D


how about a three-leaf version? It could symbolise both the roots fo the distro as the arrangement is similar to those dots on a circle ubuntu uses as well as importance of community as there is more than one leaf...


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It requires work I know... something just doesn't seem right with it, but I was wondering what do you guys think overal about such an approach?
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That one is really cool:

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For me, the Carlos font set IS a logo.
I think it is not good to keep a logo locked up.
I could imagine following:

This leaf (that you like, Clem) simply placed on the left side of Linux Mint in Carlos font set. Without any frame.
This is by a very well know designer/developer and it is extremely similar to his leaf logo, which is well known throughout the industry. Very strong brand recognition. Like I've said before leaf logos are super tricky cause there are so many and its very easy to duplicate others by accident
This argument has to be considered too, I think
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I like the one with 6 leaves best myself, it has a very distinctive (if a little Klingonesque) outline.
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I like th 6 leaf version also. Such a minty treat!
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of course... and I was thinking of changing the inside lines to white... I'll have to play with it more tonight... and I'll post everything...
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Here it is... did some more work on it... and rotated so it's as different as possible from that tracking company's logo.. :? and it looks more optimistic pointing upward :)


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and here's my working inscape file.. it's a mess, but that's how I work :) if anyone wants to polish it up...
http://www.medri.hr/hid/niksavel/temp/working.svg
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I like it as well, it's cartoonish :)
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