Friction,
Who changed the logos on the website?
Did we not vote on the best logos, why are they altered or not being displayed? Who's the rebel?
The logo at the top looks way too big. And all the logos look odd without the circle (you know, like the coins we voted for, circles like a coin since this is a digital coin) and the top colors and coins voted on are not all displayed.
It would be nice if we voted on something that it would show in the end product.
Cause the way you had it done, friction, it looked nicer except for the stretched logo at the top.
I hate to bitch at people pitching in but we do have to all be on the same page here and it's clear as to what logos are preferred by all the people here.
Thanks.
I did the initial changes. Still tweaking.
Right now until we get a finalized count of how many people like what logo, I can't really make design decisions. Also, it doesn't make sense to have more than one logo of the coin up there anyways, which is why I plan to ditch the lower section in the future and replace it with icons that actually represent the option (e.g. a package for the download page, a question mark for the FAQ, etc.
Going to make the top smaller now, though
Jimhsu is handling the graphics and theme of the site. I trust that he will do a good job.
Feel free to do what you feel best.
More design notes:
When choosing a logo, it has to fit a defined motif. The biggest problem I have with #1 (orange on black) is despite that it looks great by itself, the entire site has to be designed around it. More troublingly, it's not complementary with any of the other designs from a design standpoint; by using 2 or more incompatible designs, you might as well be making 2 different coins.
The set of (Red logo/12/23) is, however, complementary and seems to have the most popular support overall (7+7+5 votes); hence why I'm trying to design around it. It fits within the
gestalt of the existing site; it's compatible with a range of reproduction formats, from stenciled (Red/23) to dual color (12) to black and white prints (23); it's simple and modernistic, which a) fits within current design themes and b) allows good 32x32 and 16x16 reproduction, which is
ABSOLUTELY critical (see newflesh's post). This is not favoritism, since notice that I did not pick any of my own logos.
I agree with the wordpress wiping out the circles; don't like that. That seems to be something caused by the template CSS. I'd rather some sort of subtle crossfade or something, but I'm not a CSS expert and so need to look at tutorials to see how to do that.
Votes could change however since there are 16 days left.
