[advocacy] Xiph/Vorbis logo contest?

[Erik Moeller]

Am Sam, 2002-09-14 um 09.26 schrieb Tim Ivorson:
> The existing version is already linked in people's minds to ogg vorbis

Not really -- do a search for Ogg Vorbis on images.google.com and you
don't get many relevant results. People find the existing logo ugly and
don't put it on their pages for this reason. This is obvious because
they have made all sorts of attempts to crop the niced-up version on
vorbis.com:

http://www.infosatellite.com/images/articlepics/oggvorbis_logo.gif
http://www.itavisen.no/images/pic7586.jpeg
http://www.diarioti.com/noticias/2002/ene2002/vorbisj.jpg
http://www.megagames.com/news/images/sftoggvrb_l1.jpg
http://www.technet.cz/obrazek/oggbbc_logo.jpg

This is not easy because of the background though. So Ogg Vorbis is not
really linked in people's mind except that some have a vague memory of a
fish -- it would definitely be possible to get a nicer logo into
mainstream usage. And as I said, it could still be a swordtail fish.

> IMHO the nicest version is that used in Ogg Drop.

You mean the Mac version?
http://www.nouturn.com/oggdrop/
That's indeed a nice variant of the logo, and if we can get a copy of
that without the arrow and use it everywhere, I'm already happy.

> The name is good. People don't confuse vorbis with anything else.

The problem with the name is that most people don't realize the
difference between Ogg and Vorbis, which is understandable because the
.ogg extension is used for audio files, but let's not go into this.

Regards,

Erik

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