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Re: Open-Sourced Logos

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post #69

I wonder how easy it would be to generate more logos like these, via neural network or other means.

Neural networks might be tricky. Logos tend to be precise, neural networks work better when the result is fuzzier. On the other hand, identifying a good logo is the sort of fuzzy problem that you might be able to train a network for. Use it as a fitness function over some other algorithm. You could have a generator that combined a variety of operations into a 'logo expression' that generates an image. Have values and…

Genetic programming using a design grammar (i.e. a hierarchical rule system, like a language grammar) is probably a much more natural fit than neural networks for generating the logos. It's been done before with other domains, including architecture. Using a neural network to learn the evaluation function (i.e. put a number on how 'good' a candidate logo is) in a GP is very possible though.

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

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I like this, but I'm trying to understand the consequences of more than one person using the same one. I think the answer is, nothing until two or more users start to clash. At which point it will come down to who trademarked it first. That sounds reasonable, since you are probably dealing with small use cases wouldn't bother trademarking such a thing. They would get their own unique one first.

One the other hand, I suppose a new type of "trademark troll" could hypothetically arise from paying to trademark these, and then suing you for using them. Although I would like to think that a reasonable defense in court would be, "look I just got it for free from this site, and I willing to stop using it". ... and on the third hand, we see actual out of court settlements for patents that have less to stand on than that.

So I guess it's more of a "who gives a damn", and "quit worrying so much" thing.

Re: Open-Sourced Logos

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm bootstrapping a product startup as well and I have to agree. My logo is the cent symbol, in Arial font. Lots of other things to be working on!

Good luck! I work at a company where the logo is the founder's last name, in Arial Black, the aspect ratio slightly squished because the original designer was an ME with no software experience to know how to preserve aspect ratio. Now that logo is on 20 years and tens of millions of dollars worth of machines, so it would be hard to change, but it's fine.

https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/dell-logo/5... ?
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