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Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by dreamfactory2 »

egeozcan wrote: post #100
ryanSrich wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Besides, if a company looked for and used a "free logo generator", would that company really be the type of client you wanted to pick up? Of course not. That still doesn't mean that the sentiment isn't degrading to designers. (it is)

There are are a lot of code generators (written by programmers) and they never seem to offend the programmers. I don't think everything can be automated with satisfying results or in a reasonable time but come on, why would an attempt be offending or degrading?

In fairness, I often see devs highly offended by automated output, including where it makes no difference whatsoever to performance and maintainability (and particularly so if it improves on any of those). There is plenty of frothing out there about hand-tuned SQL vs ORM and hand-crafted semantic HTML/CSS for example.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by dreamfactory2 »

prawn wrote: post #104
ryanSrich wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Two reasons: 1. It degrades design as a profession. It's essentially saying that logo design can be done by an algorithm. "There's no creativity to it". Wouldn't you be offended if someone said a basic algorithm could eliminate your job? (perhaps you wouldn't) 2. It's an overly simplistic view of what a logo/brand identity is. You can't just pick out some basic shapes and text for your logo. You need color theory, co…

I sympathise with your perspective, but surely some of those needs (colour theory, contrast, etc) can be solved algorithmically and others (public perception and brand "feel") could be automatically tested by a site/script surveying users in the target segment.

You need someone creative to generate the good ideas to be used in the first place.

Random mutation and A/B would surely take millenia, even assuming huge traffic in the first place. And even then, one of the internal criticisms of A/B at Amazon was that it helped refine local optima (e.g. a next button in a checkout cart) but is weak on a holistic view (whole page, user experience), and making larger innovative jumps (which is where you end up getting swallowed by your competition of course).

Of course, you could just think of a seasoned creative as a really powerful software/hardware combo, with AI and heuristics light years ahead, and cheap at the price.

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by soci »

lowglow wrote: post #35

I honestly thought this was going to generate a free logo and got really excited for some unknown reason? I guess I was wondering how it all worked, then I clicked through and it made way more sense. That was a wild ride!

Not an API, but I used a website to generate a free logo for an MVP I'm building. So far so good. http://www.hipsterlogogenerator.com

Re: Show HN: Free Company Logo API

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Post by captn3m0 »

mukgupta wrote: post #93
captn3m0 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This API call is just returning a PNG image with almost no EXIF data. In that case, the title is set by browsers to the filename, which is equal to the domain name itself. Are you seeing something else in the title? (I see fb.com)

Saw this in response headers. Content-Disposition:"inline; filename="Facebook.png"" I am using firefox which apparently uses this header to set the title. Chrome OTOH won't do it

Interesting. I did look at headers, but missed the Content-Disposition for some reason.
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