Re: Euphoria Logo Contest, will you participate?
- Posted by useless Sep 14, 2009
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I don't see anything *wrong* with kinz's design (other than "where's the 'u' ?"), i am at the other end of the pendulum swing from flowery-artistic and the RDS logo. I'd prefer something technical, to set it in a camp far from the various connotations the Eu logo has now, and separate from the European Union. Not that i want the 1970's sans serif all caps blocks of letters designs for programming languages either.
Regardless of the various ways one could manipulate an image to be cyrilic characters, or cute origami, i think the 'E' and 'u' should be distinct and readable. If someone goes to google the letters in the logo, you want them to find EUphoria, no?
Since Euphoria has been "open" only a year, i do not believe "open" should be in the Eu logo any more than it is in any *nix, PHP, Apache, Perl, Python, etc etc logo. Any logo change will be enough to distance it from RDS's rainbow swooshing thing, it doesn't need to spell out "open". Look at it from a 10 yr perspective.
I vote too, the use of "Eu" or "Euph" alone, as part of redefining the language description: "Euphoric Union of Programming .... " and then i lose it. While i agree Euphoria can be rapid deployment of shorter jobs, it can also be longer development of more complex work now. Euphoria's release of v4, it's being "open", and the soon-to-be dropping of all things dos, means it's evolving to include what we pestered RDS about for many years, so a new backronym reflecting the new v4+ Eu would be appropriate. Suitable kudos to RDS should still remain on the Eu webpages somewhere, however.
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