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I think you would end up with a better logo if you just did a call to your mailing list for designer recommendations, and paid a real designer $500 for a few hours of their work to come up with their best effort. By opening a contest, you're not only going to get a much lower quality of submissions, but in the end, the final decision is going to be made by you, someone "useless at anything artistic". Paying a designe…
http://www.one-tab.com/web/images/tarsnap.png A castle and medieval font to convey security and resilience Use of a font with a distinctive R to help it appear as TAR-SNAP and not TARS-NAP A monospaced font with underscores to convey that this for the UNIX command line Subtle gold/silver colors that convey a history of widely acknowledged value and future longevity Font: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/metamorphous…
I think it's a bad idea to use a novelty display typeface for the name. Also, that typeface looks like something from a 1990s Front Line Assembly album.
Also, any typeface you pick better mesh well with Times New Roman, because Colin can be trusted to set type in that.
The castle will be hard to reproduce at different sizes, won't work at all in black and white, and is effectively clip art.
http://www.one-tab.com/web/images/tarsnap.png A castle and medieval font to convey security and resilience Use of a font with a distinctive R to help it appear as TAR-SNAP and not TARS-NAP A monospaced font with underscores to convey that this for the UNIX command line Subtle gold/silver colors that convey a history of widely acknowledged value and future longevity Font: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/metamorphous…
Every time I hear the name "Tarsnap" I think of the long skinny dragons on heraldic crests, so I'm with you thematically. I think it's a bad idea to use a novelty display typeface for the name. Also, that typeface looks like something from a 1990s Front Line Assembly album. Also, any typeface you pick better mesh well with Times New Roman, because Colin can be trusted to set type in that. The castle will be hard to r…
That's what springs to mind when you hear the name of your company, so that's what you need for a logo.
Here are a few options:
I think I get the name (unix `tar` plus a snapshot or securely locked in). It's not lack of familiarity - I've known about it for years, and even have an account.
I doubt you're keen on a name change, but "tarlock" would avoid this.
Or... a parsnip as a logo.
EDIT how bizarre! The instant I commented this, jasonkester made the same suggestion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6462378
I think you would end up with a better logo if you just did a call to your mailing list for designer recommendations, and paid a real designer $500 for a few hours of their work to come up with their best effort. By opening a contest, you're not only going to get a much lower quality of submissions, but in the end, the final decision is going to be made by you, someone "useless at anything artistic". Paying a designe…
Then you call in a real designer to look over the submissions and pick the one that inspires them, and do an improved version of that.
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my thoughts exactly. In my very non-artistic, unimportant opinion, the last thing tarsnap needs is yet another logo with a padlock / key / chain / castle / fortress / shield / guard / dog. These security-related icons are so frequently (ab)used that I'm getting a strong urge not to use any product that relies on them to symboloze its security.
the last thing tarsnap needs is yet another logo with a padlock / key / chain / castle / fortress / shield / guard / dog. I'm inclined to agree... I'm not saying it's impossible to produce a good logo with one of these, but I'd need to see something really inspiring to put up with a cliche.
We did CBC mode in "tattoo flash" style.
(I'm seriously considering another take on block mode diagrams for a tattoo).
I've said it before and I'm saying it again: It needs to be a parsnip. That's what springs to mind when you hear the name of your company, so that's what you need for a logo. Here are a few options: https://www.google.com/search?q=parsnip
Before you discount it, remember that Sourcefire has a goofy looking cartoon pig.
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Every time I hear the name "Tarsnap" I think of the long skinny dragons on heraldic crests, so I'm with you thematically. I think it's a bad idea to use a novelty display typeface for the name. Also, that typeface looks like something from a 1990s Front Line Assembly album. Also, any typeface you pick better mesh well with Times New Roman, because Colin can be trusted to set type in that. The castle will be hard to r…
Btw the castle source is a 3D model, so this logo can be scaled infinitely.
I've wrote about this a few times on HN before. You guys like to downvote me every time I do but here we go again ... Good designers, the ones you want if this is important to you, don't do contests. We have families to feed and bills to pay. "Winning" a popularity contest, not based on substance but instead on style, doesn't allow us to support ourself and our families doing our work. So, who are the designers doing…