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Re: Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

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No. That’s the opposite. That’s a small company taking on a big one and winning. The OP that I was replying to was talking about big companies going after minnows.

Apple initially went after the small shop in this story.

I see (sorry I skimmed it before). From the looks of it it seems she got a lot of support though because of that.

It’s a little different too since she was actually selling products with her logo on them vs. developing free software, but good point.

Re: Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

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Mr Jumbo/PHP doesn't use an elephant logo. Is it the color you're concerned with? Mr Jumbo reminds me more of Bing Bong from Inside Out. Foxy/Gitlab logo is _very_ close. Moby/Docker is a stretch but I can see it a bit. Steps/Webpack isn't that close. It looks closer to the old Windows Registry icon to me. Fall/Endomondo seems like an obvious ripoff. Apple I see no problem with (conceptually, at least. I wouldn't per…

PHP has definitely used an elephant logo. https://seeklogo.com/images/P/php-logo-ADE513E748-seeklogo.c...

The official PHP logo has no elephant:

https://secure.php.net/download-logos.php

Re: Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

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I think I see where you are going with this and am interested in how your pricing is working out. You seem to have a flat monthly fee structure - and at a fairly "high" price point. If I was "just" looking for a logo I could pay your monthly fee just once at somewhere like 99designs, so I might not take retainer. But if I had greater needs for design 250 a month would be a bargain and you are too low and you will be…

To get a decent logo/branding done, one would have to spend around $200-$400 where we can provide 1 month retainer for almost similar price point, which is the real bargain! One could get their Logo, Stationery or anything else designed with the same price point. It has been working out really great, We have launched around more than month back and we are at $3,325 in MRR. We are writing our journey here : Zero to $3…

I love the rent-an-in-house-designer concept - it solves a big mental block I have had with the 99designs style approach.

However I get the feeling your price point may be too low - there is a lot of value a designer can add, not just in "logos and stationary", and that can mean a lot of work - I guess you just have to suck it and see.

Which takes me to tiers - it's a lot easier to have the "you are now in the platinum tier" conversation than the "stop asking me to do a full time gig on 200 bucks"

As it is so hard to guess how much work, and you want to get away from looking like it's piece work, can I suggest offering streams of work. Bear with me

Logos and stationary are one basic stream of work. But the long term gigs will probably come from two classes of company - mid sized firms wanting to get in-house designers to revamp the existing art work to be more consistent, and I strongly suspect internal enterprise teams wanting to build distinctive internal brands

That to my mind gives three streams - the try-me-out level of logos and stationary, the internal branding and the wider revamp. Each feels like increasing amounts of complex work. but each feels like a distinct market, and with levels inside

Edit I guess the internal brand one is most exciting to me - give developers a pattern library for their app, and keep adding to it as they add features or work. A bootstrap/react pattern library that you can retheme would probably go long way?

Re: Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

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The head of the fox in the foxy logo looks very close to the gitlab logo

Because it's a fox..

Regardless - it would be a bit counterproductive to select a logo that so resembles that of a popular company

Re: Show HN: Open Logos – Free logos for open source projects

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Great idea. Honestly I was not expecting a big support like this. I hope the current state of the project can help some projects now and hopefully in the long term we can include new designers and help as much as project we can.

Cool concept. How about using a repository on GitHub and using pull requests/voting to manage submissions?

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