A preliminary, rough, idea sketch, a raster based image which would need to be reproduced as a vector based image for reduction in size for the many different uses a logo for a Crypto Currency alt coin demands ... a rough idea, just a musing if you will, for NETCOIN/NTC.
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See this logo processed by makeappicon as it would appear on a smartphone here:
http://makeappicon.com/download/b6f13d46c3ad4a3fa7cb1ef8377d3cc8Stacked:
http://makeappicon.com/download/106d88a4b5404d4ca960ff25f009df5b#The logo, it's technical demands are, that it be instantly recognized when it is teeny, tiny displayed as the logo in a browser tab, in the miner application, in the taskbar or the system tray, etc ... The coin edge could probably be a little bigger, yes, the bevel should be a bit more pronounced and you tend to lose all of that when it is reduced for use as an icon, (desktop, taskbar, browser tab, etc ...), so the primary component that makes for instant recognition is the math symbol, the greek letter, the Sigma which is used in Tacotime's most recent whitepaper. And then we have a bit of bitcoin color, a "clip" of the coin if you will, and then a greater proportion of silver to gold ratio, pie chart like ... and then the copper edge. So we rally round the family, (of Crypto), pocket fulla' ... Netcoins.
Got a little bit of that Tron thing goin' on, and some of that "ecoin" ...
Nice sketch, but I'd like to see something more appealing to the eye, something better looking. I hold nothing against the Σ symbol, but shouldn't it be N (Netcoin) or an earth surrounded by a net or something similar?
JMTL - Just my two litecoins
So my quote here contains only the very small version, because really, this is what you design for. 90% of the views the icon gets are in the browser tab, in the wallet, on the taskbar ... as a "tiny icon", so it must look really good, better than all the others, as an "icon", and that's my first goal. To make it look nice, to be representative in a larger size, that is a secondary goal, although very important.
Yes, I have a rough version I'm working on that uses a "Network" image, something like you see in windows when you go to networking in Control Panel, this is of course a good candidate image type for creating the logo. And yes, of course, something more appealing to the eye, some "candy", is important and those issues are of course secondary to a good "functional" product first. The letter "N", using a letter, we then bring the logo closer in branding characteristics to bitcoin, and litecoin, as they use a letter. The FTC, FeaTherCoin, dev and their community decided NOT to use a letter, (as true coins, physical coins use portraits or images ... not letters), to distinguish the logo, the FTC logo, from all the other coins, and I think that was a big success. When one looks in their system tray, for the wallet, we see a diagonal strike, (the feather), through a round icon, and that's then easy to bring the wallet up, very effective, user friendly.
I expect to proceed through many design iterations as I learn more about Netcoin and it's technicals, more about what the creator wishes through reading his whitepaper and continual testing of his GUIMiner, etc ...
This first NTC, or Netcoin, logo leverages the dev/creators conceptual illustration in his whitepaper ... that the Sigma math symbol is the locus of theoretical math and logical considerations ... that the dev/creator bases much of his permutation around. Thus, we are math, the network is math ... and the coin is our server. Thanks for commenting.