logo ideas about node HOT 878 CLOSED

Got to spend a little more time at having another crack with some ideas before leaving work. Someone can polish these up if they say any potential, it definitely needs more time.

Idea being the octagon for V8 as @substack mentioned. Then the right hand side being the node colour and looking like an arrow forward before forming an I as the colours transition. This can work in B&W as well with some work and seperation between some elements. The "ribbons" were kind of meant as a way to show I/O without throwing arrows around.

license: public domain / CC0

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greate job

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I can't wait to stick that hard drive on my laptop lid.

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Maybe something more simple?

I love @substack 's proposal but don't know if it will be easy to stamp on tshirts and that kind of stuff logos are mostly used for.
svg here

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svg file

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+1 for @zeke

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During my lunch break.

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+1 for @karlbright, nice job!

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I'm with @substack. Octagon O, binary, 10, etc. Probably needs the full "js" as a kicker, but that's for later.

svg under public domain "license".

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sticker pack:

licence: public domain or CC0 at your choice

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@substack these are really cool. nice work!

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@zeke does it also come in JavaScript yellow?

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"I" and an octagonal "O" in the z axis.

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@substack It's 2014 now can't we at least have SSD for the log? :P

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a kind of silly 4-color:

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also, some jupiter transit:

(based on
and )

I think @substack's is my favorite thus far, though :)

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The inner star is an (irregular) octagon. It looks similar to Shuriken, a weapon of (JavaScript) ninja.

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@substack beautiful.

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@karlbright's one is my favorite so far, with a small change the yellow circle made to octagon

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@kylebright nice idea, but I'd switch the arrow direction, as currently it's accidentally symbolising backwards (anti-clockwise) movement, which as a forward thinking project it is symbolising the opposite of what we desire to do.

@zeke wasn't that logo style used by google I/O conference at some point?

On @SubStacks' design? It'll become illegible at smaller resolutions and printing will likely bleed. Also if seen in grey-scale it'll loose clarity. Similar on @chrisdickinson's Jupiter design, although I do love that rusty red color.

Given all my words here, I'll work on a few concepts when I get a moment.

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As a bystander:

• Choose mascot geometry shape
  • Octagon — see Federick II
  • Hexagon — the de-facto standard Web-ish shape
  • other…
• Choose colors
  • JS-ish Yellow — unoffical but stabilized
  • Acid Green — Node style
  • Red — aggressive, attack first
  • @substack’s 80s Galore — freaking awesome
  • other…
• Choose style
  • @zeke’s minimalist
  • @substack’s cell-shaded, reduced, minimalist figurative
  • @chrisdickinson’s space-oriented, figurative, decorative
  • @karlbright’s metaphoric
  • other…

The octagon is IMHO fantastic. It has always been the symbol for rational thought, and I love it. But it’s not stackable as an hexagon is. So we’re losing some points on the ‘scalability’ concept there.

@substack colors are fantastic, but work only on figurative designs.
JS-ish yellow-ish is by far the easiest path.

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@kt3k By the way, I personally don‘t like the idea of JS-ers to be ninjas. Quick, dirty and criminal. (I love ninjas anyway). If we have to go criminal let’s go pirate :)

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And a last note, the harddrive in @substack idea is perfectly executed but lacks of comunicative energy. Is io.js just a library for async disk io operations?

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@karlbright +1 (I really like the 2nd one)

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@karlbright very much looks like "no" rather than "i/o"

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@phpnode haha perfect!

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@phpnode I agree, needs some work. perhaps the I is formed from the bottom, or not joined at all. Throw around some ideas.

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i'm doing loads of online 3D stuff these days so i did this mock-up..

here is the live demo & GLSL code

i think it could easily be simplified for e.g. a t-shirt print (something like a threshold filter : )

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threshold version looks like this (needs tidying, this is just an very crude example)

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I like @zeke's the best so far. We should try to avoid anything cartoony. Node/io.js is simple and low level but very powerful which is why I would want a simple, elegant logo. The only issue with @zeke's is that it is not unique/easily identifiable. Perhaps a variation of this with a couple tweaks to make it unique.

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@zeke's is really great but doesn't it bear too much resemblance to Node's logo style with the hexagons?

👍 @karlbright, shadows on the second one are great - the style in general works well as it can easily be flattened and look good as a silhouette.

Let's not forget the importance of how the logo will look when it's desaturated/flat/turned into a decal.

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@chrisdickinson +1

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@karlbright +1
love the 2nd one~

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@karlbright 's first one 👍

Only the bright yellow area doesn't set itself enough apart from the white background.

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oh, actually! @karlbright they are looking awesome.

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Flipping the slash there and making it layer in a clockwise motion, and I think it’d look great!

— Micheil

On 3 Dec 2014, at 9:16 am, Karl Brightman [email protected] wrote:

Got to spend a little more time at having another crack with some ideas before leaving work. Someone can polish these up if they say any potential, it definitely needs more time.

Idea being the octagon for V8 as @substack mentioned. Then the right hand side being the node colour and looking like an arrow forward before forming an I as the colours transition. This can work in B&W as well with some work and seperation between some elements.

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Why don’t we go crazy with octagons on something nerdy like this:

It’s an hyperbolic plane, with a regular octagonal tessellation. See http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/68271

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Scribbles.

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The bottom one looks inline with what I was thinking; I suspect the / may still look
better overlayed on top of the I though.

On 3 Dec 2014, at 12:21 pm, Karl Brightman [email protected] wrote:

Scribbles.

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@karlbright your sketches look great!

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Wow. Just wow. I love everyone's designs so much.

Can we have like a bunch of logos? :D

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ya like @substack's sticker pack! rotating logo spectrum

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I wish you could upvote comments.

I really like @chrisdickinson's triangle one, but it's pretty subtle.

Also like: @jbergstroem's IO, @substack's sticker pack, @karlbright's IO.

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@Fishrock123, hey good point. i also really like this node forward one from the website

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@reqshark I'd rather we come up with something ourselves haha, I think we should leave that for node-forward. :)

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At first I was worried about using hexagons because when Node Forward had a hexagon based logo it was something Joyent was upset about and so I changed it hoping they would calm down (they didn't). Now that I've had some time to think about it though I don't think it matters, you can't trademark hexagons, and we aren't calling it node-* so whatever.

@karlbright I love where your's is going, especially the color fade from JS yellow to Node green. My only concern is how this might work on stickers. Perhaps if the "I" was inside the hexagon, that would also solve the "No" issue.

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@karlbright playing on one of your earlier designs

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@mikeal let them sue all of them: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=hexagon+logo&hl=en&gbv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TyJ_VNGqMoaoyAT0vICABw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&q=hexagon+logo

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@greelgorke in everywhere but Brazil, trademarks are specific to an area, so they have "node.js" in software with a reference to their hexagon design. The test for infringement is "can one be confused for the other" and so being a fork is part of the context. That said, our name is sufficiently different that a reasonable person can tell them apart so I don't think it's a problem.

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@mikeal +1 But what about a rounded octagon?

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(built with inkscape, polygon w/ 8 sides and 0.154 of rounding)

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Hey everyone, rather than everyone just giving plus ones, why don't we come up with a few designs, then open a new ticket with the options and vote on it there?

That way here we can really hone in on ideas.

On 3 Dec 2014, at 14:17, Bent Cardan [email protected] wrote:

@Fishrock123, hey good point. i also really like this node forward one from the website

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@miksago I don't think we're at the final vote phase yet, let's keep throwing up ideas and collaborating for a while :)

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We could also put the finalists up on the new iojs.org and have a real form to vote with instead of just +1 anarchy.

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A good exercise might be to include a sticker cut with each logo.

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I like what @cjihrig is thinking.

@mikeal agreed.

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Really love @karlbright's approach, feels very original / fresh... not sure the branding should orbit around the almighty sticker... Maybe have him come up with some ideas on how it could work in a sticker format? Maybe a few alternate configurations focused on different contexts?

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Here's a 10 minute idea 👍

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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just a thought...

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or with blending...

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+1 on @christianallen's second one (i.e. the blended)

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ohhhh @christianallen 👏 👏 👏 (blended version)

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Love @yuchi 's octagonal rounded yellow

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+1 for color parity with the js and js next logos (yellow/black)

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Ok, two more:

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+1 @karlbright (especially the second one above with the paper shadows), @zeke the simple black one, maybe in yellow, and @rafaelconde with these super simple ones above.

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@rafaelconde I really like the versatility of this design, you could see it being using in a variety of colors, easy stickers, and simple to make variations for other projects.

-1 on having ".js" in the logo :)

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@mikeal it should be recognisable and scalable.
The problem with yellow is that with a white background and small size, it starts to blend with the background.

Glad you like it 👍

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@rafaelconde ya, but yellow would be great with no background on a silver macbook as a sticker :)

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I <3 @zeke's first entry

(Hey @zeke if that doesn't get chosen, could @nodebots use it for our "IO Plugin" ecosystem? Come chat with us: https://gitter.im/rwaldron/johnny-five)

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@karlbright's is rad!

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@rafaelconde get me a circle PNG and I'll try to have stickers ready for JSFest :)

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Here's the reason for my hesitation with @zeke's:
https://ui8.net

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@mikeal done, with or without ".js"?

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@rafaelconde no .js, it'll be a round die cut sticker :)

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@mikeal do you have an email address I could send it to?

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just post it here :)

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Here:

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@rafaelconde like it but it looks like a power switch, also the blue version you posted is really close to gravatar's logo / blank placeholder image (really similar blue too),

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@phpnode you're right! Haven't thought about that 👍

Maybe because of the blue background, because the gem itself I feel it's different enough. But then again, it's a very minimal approach. It's hard to be unique with two basic shapes, for the context, I think it works.

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@rafaelconde's logo is also reminiscent of a flattened version of 1password's logo.

@zeke has the best so far, still.

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<3 @chrisdickinson's jupiter design's!

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LOL I assumed that @rafaelconde's was SUPPOSED to be a power switch. I.e. Power your web with io.js or something.

Love it, also love @zeke's. If you make stickers @mikeal you have to save me one as a Sponsor :D

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Amazing contributions from everyone. I'm so blessed to be in this community. I really like the power button :)

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+1 @zeke

IO in white inside a black hexagon.

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👍 for @zeke! The crisp corners help to distinguish it from https://ui8.net, and it'd work really well at just about any size.

(Also, 👍 * 0.75 for @yuchi.)

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+1 for @zeke. Maybe make it an octagon (for V8), and it could come in yellow?

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https://cldup.com/UqjIN5HuFV.svg
https://cldup.com/u6j8ggQJ9p.svg

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(BTW everyone download this one from @zeke if you’re using Atom: https://github.com/zeke/atom-icon)

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I'm thinking an octagon inside a hexagon.

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@zeke last one with the inverse color option is good.

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@zeke 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Quick-and-dirty Inkscape mockup of the design elements I'd go for:

I'm in favor of something simple like this or @jbergstroem's, but the "I" needs serifs or a dot so it doesn't look like "10".

Also, the overlapping-color ones like @karlbright's end up looking more like a logo for Google I/O (not to mention they don't work in monochrome).

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For completeness:

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And a sharper one (with stroke)

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w/ the space and io theme maybe it'd be cool to explore NASA and other space org designs/logos.

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I really like the Gallilean moon themed ones, especially @chrisdickinson 's.

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Based on a flattened tesseract:

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Basic google image search for old nasa patches to serve as benchmarks/inspiration.

nasa001

juno001

nasa002

nasa003

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