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I might like the same idea better with breaks

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ok one more related concept

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I like the chipped S and prefer it in, if you do too, Micah. I cleaned up the chip just a little bit, though, and whipped together a kind of sample wordmark.

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The second proposal (the first with breaks) is my fave, fwiw.
On May 30, 2014 12:36 AM, "thisisparker" [email protected] wrote:

I like the chipped S and prefer it in, if you do too, Micah. I cleaned up
the chip just a little bit, though, and whipped together a kind of sample
wordmark.
[image: onionshare-simpler]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/400348/3128080/fe4f5f5e-e7cc-11e3-82ed-a440fe7c23c4.png
[image: onionsharebanner]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/400348/3128084/0ea32f20-e7cd-11e3-95eb-85156b8b3154.png

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Just another idea. Obviously, only usable if using Tor logo is possible.

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The Tor logo shouldn't be used — that would imply that Onion Share is made/endorsed/distributed by the Tor Project, which it isn't.

I like @thisisparker's labyrinth (#2) logo best.

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Well I was wrong about the clipping on the S. Too cute. I still prefer this to the labyrinth (I think it'll scale down better) but @garrettr and @flamsmark aren't often wrong at the same time.

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Looks awesome @elcapo, but I think @flamsmark is right, it can't directly use the Tor logo. This says:

If you're making non-commercial use of Tor software, you may also use the Tor onion logo (as an illustration, not as a brand for your products). Please don't modify the design or colors of the logo. You can use items that look like the Tor onion logo to illustrate a point (e.g. an exploded onion with layers, for instance), so long as they're not used as logos in ways that would confuse people.

Nice @thisisparker. I think I like your latest one best. The early ones were good, but I think that too many lines won't really look like anything when the icon is smaller. I wonder if it would be possible to make a version of that with breaks?

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Things I like about the latest design:

1. Fewer lines — cleaner when small &c.
2. Two colors of arrows are neat.

My niggles with the latest design:

1. The arrows centers of mass are off-center with respect to the vertical center of the circle.
2. The arrows are are small relative to the weight & curvature of the circles, so their slants have materially different angles of incidence against the lines. I think that vertical centering would help this.
3. The arrows on the outside look super incomplete — both the purple one at the top and the white one at the bottom.

I have an idea, but I don't know how it'll look. What if you

• left the same number of visible rings (three purple, two white),
• placed purple arrows at the top on the inner and outer rings and at the bottom on the middle ring,
• placed white arrows at the left and right sides, one on each ring, and
• align the arrows so that their centers of mass are on the vertical and horizontal bisecting lines?

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@flamsmark I think those are all good tips. Some early drafts had left/right arrows as well that didn't look so good, but I'll give it a shot again. I've been doing this in my janky image editor program, I think it's about time that I switch to a vector editor for a more final version of this.

@micahflee is this blocking your release schedule? I probably won't be able to take a stab until tomorrow night.

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@flamsmark all good ideas. @thisisparker nope not blocking anything. I still have a lot of work to do before the GUI will be done. Take your time, and thanks! What software are you using to design this btw?

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I've been playing with making some more logo designs myself, with a similar theme but trying to make it simpler and less busy.

Here's the first I came up with:

But I still thought it could be even simpler, so I made this one:

And here's a variation on it:

And this is another version with less arrows. This one also sort of looks like the letter "O", for OnionShare:

I think the last one is my favorite so far. It definitely looks less like an onion than the previous ones @thisisparker made, but it's simpler and makes for a better icon, I think.

Also I made all of these with GIMP, so still no vector version.

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Other comments. I kind of like that just having two arrows seems to imply that it's one person sharing with one other person (which is how I envision people using onionshare most of the time). And here's a version using a purple that's closer to what the Tor logo uses:

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I think that the two-layered multi-arrow logo is really busy. The single-layer one with four arrows makes me think of recycling. The two-arrow version looks more like synchronization than sharing. If you do go with the two-arrow design, there is one thing that somewhat bugs me — the exterior of the white circle and the outside edge of the arrow's point don't quite line up.

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Good feedback @flamsmark. Do you mean like how the arrows are pointing straight up and down rather than towards the center of the thick white ring? Also, I think I like the darker purple more than the lighter Tor purple.

And also, here's a screenshot of the logo (so far) inside the GUI app:

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@micahflee No, I mean that the two arrow-circles don't seem to be aligned.

Consider the outside edge of the point of one of the arrows. Extend that line past the point of the arrow across the gap between the arrow-circles towards the flat back of the other arrow-circle. Right now, that line hits the flat back of the arrow-circle. I think that it should be perfectly tangent to the outside edge of the arrow-circle, normal to the flat back of the arrow-circle. This would happen if the top/right arrow-circle was moved a little down and to the right. #holyconvoluteddescriptionBatman

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I'm getting pretty close to 0.3 release, complete with logo-ful GUI. I think the current logo as it stands could be improved, but is pretty good, and I don't feel like spending a lot of time tweaking it before the 0.3 release. So I'm just gonna stick with what I have.

I'm completely open to modifying the logo for future releases to make it better. But for now, closing this issue.

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How would you feel about something like this, @micahflee? I made these as SVG, so they can be resized HOWEVER.

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And a broken variant, because that was everybody's favorite last time :)

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Oooh... ahhh... I'll need to make these smaller and see how they look in little icon format, but I like it big.

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There's one more version I'm going to make that will hopefully feel more
symmetrical, but something broke my dynamically linked libraries and
Inkscape won't open for the time being.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 4:52 PM, Micah Lee [email protected] wrote:

Oooh... ahhh... I'll need to make these smaller and see how they look in
little icon format, but I like it big.

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I'm still open to improving the logo btw :). But also I think the current logo isn't bad, and happy to stick with it. @thisisparker let me know if you've still got something that might better.

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The current logo has served onionshare well for the last 14 months, so I'll just keep it.

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