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"IS THIS W3C'S "OFFICIAL" LOGO FOR HTML5? Not yet. W3C introduced this logo in January 2011 with the goal of building community support. W3C has not yet taken it up in any official capacity. If, as W3C hopes, the community embraces the logo, W3C will adopt it as its own official logo for HTML5 in the first quarter of 2011."
I have to say that I find the icons to be really, really ridiculous. It doesn't look like something someone hired from outside did, and the HTML5 logo looks like the header on a Tutsplus vector tutorial. Most of the different icons have very poor symbolic value, and look really unintelligible. They could do a lot worse, so that's always something.
I'm not certain I like it. Think about its purpose; it needs to work with a huge range of styles, each of which will have specific and varied audiences. The choices made (collegiate typeface / bright orange) are quite bold; I don't think it lends itself to sympathetically supporting a broad range of differing styles of design. Also, when this is used, it's likely to be quite small - the gap between the tail of the '5…
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The choices I see are: (1) Do not correct the 5 and cause people to misidentify the logo at small sizes since it looks like a 6 then (2) Correct the 5 at the cost of an almost imperceptible change in small instantiations of the logo (3) Redesign the whole thing to use a font that is distinctive at all sizes Between (1) and (2), I feel that (2) is always the winner. (3) appears to beat them both, but it means prioriti…
I agree about the three options - and I think (3) would have been the best outcome - because whenever this logo is used, it will most probably be shown as relatively small badge. For example - this blog ( http://almaer.com/blog/ ) is listed as an example of the logo in action on the launch page. I think this page is a good example of my point; at this size, the logo suffers from the '5-becoming-6' problem - it doesn'…
As a marketer, I agree.
As long as you wear a XL or smaller.
Wow, I was prepared to mock it after seeing that w3.org actually had to design something, but it's rather good.
I had the same reaction. Pre-click: Hate dialing up to DEFCON 1, Post-click: huh, not too bad -- back to the morning coffee.