[Bf-committers] New Blender Logo

Jonathan Smith j.jaydez at gmail.com
Sun Jan 9 16:58:06 CET 2011


The old Blender logo has been hanging around for (as for as I know) just as
long as the UI/Theme has been. And now the UI/Theme has changed drastically,
and I wonder whether it might be time for a change to the Blender logo.
Although I don't believe we would have to change it all that drastically, I
think a subtle change would go over well.

The first change (and a more general one) that I would propose for any new
logo, would be to get rid of the blue colour, which that circle in the
middle currently is. Although originally that same blue (or something near
the same) was the default world background as well as being the colour of
many buttons, now there is hardly any blue in the default theme of Blender.
Therefore to go in line with new theme of Blender, at least a new colour
scheme for the logo might be nice, using colours like grey and orange.

The second change (and this one would be more specific) is to get rid of the
rounded edges on the logo, and on any new shape that people might come up
with. The rounded shapes seem to give the logo a bit more
childish/not-so-serious look which doesn't seem to meld with Blender's new
look. It would be nice to have some sharper edges (I tried to do this a
little on the mockup I linked to).

All of this is just my own opinion and I would welcome anyone else's
thoughts on the matter, to the point of whether or not we even need a new
logo for Blender. I understand that changing it would require a lot of work,
including reworking at least two of the Blender icons, not to mention the
actual designing of a new logo. Another effect of this would be
some disassociation of the old Blender icon with the new Blender, instead it
would probably strengthen the ties to the older version (2.4x, etc.). This
might not be a bad thing though, it would let people know the difference,
between Blender 2.5 and Blender 2.4, they could look at the icon and
immediately tell the difference.

I did some very quick mockups of what a new Blender logo might look like:
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/7940
http://www.pasteall.org/pic/7941
*note this is just a mockup, if there was to be a new one, it could use a
completely different shape, etc. However I did like the way the colours in
this one were complimentary.

Just something for consideration.

Cheers,
Jonathan


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