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<p>Hi Mathieu,</p>
<p>Thanks for working on this. I added my comment on github.</p>
<p>I do like the logo a lot - my only problem is that I personally, would associate this particular logo draft more with "proj" than with "gdal".</p>
<p>To me it represents a compass (Zirkel in german) - and that was in the pre-computer age more used to do projections than file formats.</p>
<p>I guess the earth shape is fine, but maybe the compass could be styled in a way to make it look more like a satellite? E.g. it could have a smaller angle/fov than the current version that covers the whole earth?</p>
<p>Just some thoughts - thanks again for working on it.</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2019-12-19 10:41, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:</p>
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<div dir="ltr">Greetings all,<br /><br />As some of you might have spotted on GDAL's github account, I have spent some time coming up with a refreshed GDAL logo proposal.<br /><br />The draft's second iteration can be seen here: <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/2117" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/issues/2117</a> – thanks to Even's initial comment on the first iteration, the second draft looks great! :)<br /><br />The proposed draft logo is IMHO a nice modernized evolution from GDAL's current logo: a simplified representation of earth (the curved green line) under a simplified satellite (or compass) floating over it.<br /><br />IMHO, the logo professionalizes GDAL's first look when someone lands on <a href="http://www.gdal.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.gdal.org</a>, on wikipedia's gdal page, etc. As superficial as first impressions are, it remains important. <br /><br />On top of the arguably subjective "looking better" argument, it has several objective benefits:<br /><br />- It nicely scales down to a 32px icon size quite nicely (see examples provided in the github issue linked to above)<br /><br />- Being simple and in vector format, it makes it much easier to come up with side products, i.e. the "mug test" attached in the gitthub issue ;) this logo would likely stand well as a round sticker, printed on a shirt, etc. which is always useful during hackfests.<br /><br />Thoughts? <br /><br />Mathieu<br /><br /><br /></div>
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