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Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

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Post by sys_64738 » Wed, May 15, 2024, 1:09 AM UTC

"We make the network"

Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

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Post by matrix12 » Wed, May 15, 2024, 4:16 AM UTC

It's also the back side of the Facebook Thumbs up sign.

Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

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Post by frizlab » Wed, May 15, 2024, 7:38 AM UTC

passwordoops wrote: post #9

apercu wrote: post #7

I think it's an objectively "clever" logo but not necessarily objectively "beautiful" one. Does that make sense?

I think you just introduced subjectivity to the conversation

Beauty is always subjective isn’t it?

Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

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Post by npteljes » Wed, May 15, 2024, 7:45 AM UTC

wesamco wrote: post #49

I just realized that the PNG file for the logo hosted on wikimedia, is 232KB! That is a lot, that's unnecessarily large for such a simple logo, so I used vtracer, a raster image to SVG vectorizer, written in Rust, and SVGO, a SVG optimizer, to create the SVG file version of the logo, it is 16KB. a 93.1% improvement in size! (and they look the same) The 2 commands used: > wget 'https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

I think it's up to the users themselves, who sometimes also write bots like this. I have encountered a lot of such effort when clicking on an image, especially on the more popular ones. As an example, check this out: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tux.svg

Re: Sun Microsystems logo: the most beautiful logo design (objectively)

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Post by masfoobar » Thu, May 16, 2024, 9:33 AM UTC

crmd wrote: post #19

Silicon Graphics is my favorite logo from this era, but Sun is solid. I have great memories of being assigned my very own Ultra 2 desktop with Creator3D graphics on the first day of my first tech job.

> Silicon Graphics is my favorite logo from this era...

Agreed. The 3D-pipe cube was beautiful. I believe they changed this logo to a simple "sgi" one by year 2000.

tbh, if the company still existed today, with the 3d-pipe logo, I would still class it my favourite logo. :-)

I really wanted one of their machines back in the day.. being a teenager. Of course, you need to money for one. How times changed when 3d cards came along, giving us SGI-powered-like machines for a fraction of the price.