CtrlAltDel wrote: ⤴Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:11 pm
It looks
GREAT, maa, and I'm sure everyone is pleased that Mint has people that care enough to take time to create a new logo for Mint. But, in a thread just under this one, gugalcrom also created another logo and promoted it and got rave reviews from posters in the thread and was then told, in no uncertain terms, that his contribution just wasn't needed at this time. Gugalcrom's logo was very nice also, just as yours is.
See here:
https://github.com/linuxmint/brand-logo/pull/3
CleMint says:
Please don't change the logo. This project isn't about exploring new alternatives
The thing is, is a change being asked for at this time? Frankly, and not to be rude, but a thousand different iterations of the Mint logo could likely be created that look very pleasing and there could be a rotation of logos every day or every month or every time another one came along. That wouldn't bode too well in the area of continuity though.
When CleMint stated that "this project" isn't about exploring new alternatives, I have to be honest and state that I'm not really sure if he was being narrowly specific about that particular GitHub project or just overall he wasn't interested in a new logo.
Either way, I'm not aware of a hard push being applied to creating a new and official logo right now. At some point, you just have to go with what you have. Microsoft's logo or Ubuntu's logo or Fedora's logo, etc... could all be theoretically improved but, what is the point?
This:
looks good to me. What's wrong with a circle? Besides, the logo was just changed to what it is now. It's a new logo that was created to eliminate many of the issues that the asymmetrical leaf design presented when sizing it down. Having said all that, I'm going to take your logo and plug it into my system here and there because I really like it.
Thank you for your kind words.
Thanks for bringing that link to my attention, I really hope that CleMint was talking about the github project.
I wanted to say that the current logo is a big improvement in my opinion but it has some issues.
To demonstrate them, I made this picture.
What's wrong with the circle?
Circles are usually used when the logo needs to have a boundary in a specific use case, like when making an app icon, in print, illustrations, etc.
It makes the logo smaller, where it shouldn't be small, for example in the favicon or the menu button in cinnamon .
It's better not to make it a part of the logo, it should be a variation if it's needed, not the main logo variant.
Just imagine if the apple logo had a circle around it!
About the leaf, I think it's a really good element and it's such a shame that it's a separate one.
Being a separate variant limits where and when it can be used.
If it's integrated into the logo, it would be used everywhere the logo is used and it would make the logo much more consistent in different places.
These two issues (the ring and the leaf) are why linux mint has so many variations.
Just look at this screenshot of the new website.
It's confusing when you have so many variations.
Do microsoft, fedora or ubuntu have so many variations? No.
It makes the branding very inconsistent.
If someone wants to promote mint, which one should they use?
This redesign changes the number of variations from 11 to 2! Because there is no need for a ring, a high badge, or a separate leaf logo, and adds just one variant to the monochrome one, the colored logo.
Just because it was changed recently, it doesn't mean it cannot be changed and you are stuck with it.
If there is a good enough reason for change, which in this case I think there is, you should do it.
In fact, it's better too change it sooner, the sooner you change it, the sooner people will adapt to it.
Look at this image. Even google had multiple logos that were used just for a few years.
