From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 1 23:39:08 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C8CC16A420 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:39:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C074043D46 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 23:39:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=52929 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EX5ic-0007aH-Bj for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:39:06 +0100 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:63461 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1EX5ib-0005ln-C5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:39:05 +0100 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:37:11 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051101193923.GB8134@teddy.fas.com> <200511020007.28460.danny@ricin.com> <3cf08c810511011520rf779b1fy8343bf78232137dc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3cf08c810511011520rf779b1fy8343bf78232137dc@mail.gmail.com> X-Face: :N, f2_*44g[tRY8Y-gL2zi`G|<6SpFjTeHt|V5LO6Yl2E7yAfEh{E6-8pqxUFX"l)=?utf-8?q?Nm8y=7E=0A=09IWJSAWQ=7D+=3DpP=7CT=5D?=@sy1sz%h)*CW6gtbp]"fe@MjICtIUo.0, CH~{[R4PXSyL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511020037.11965.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: New Logo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:39:08 -0000 On Tuesday 1 November 2005 23:20, virgil huston wrote: > On 11/1/05, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Tuesday 1 November 2005 19:39, stan wrote: > > > YUK!!!!!!!!! > > > > OK I will honestly tell you my first reaction: I laughed until I fell off > > my chair. Then I put my hand in front of my mouth and whispered OMG. > > This logo is so bad, especially from a marketing perspective, that it > is almost laughable. I hope it disappears quickly. Whoever did this > was not a professional graphic designer who knows marketeting and what > a logo is for. Sorry to be so brutal. You're not brutal. You're honest and, IMHO, perfectly realistic. I didn't even talk about requirements, and I'm not an expert, but this certainly doesn't seem to be easily scalable, printable, etc on arbitrary media. That's another point (one which was to be the main reason to have the contest) which is what you are making here (correct me if I'm wrong). A simple stylished "F" with two little horns on top of it and probably most of us would have loved it. Dan