Re: functional brighton logo feedback

[Miles Sabin]

Hi Eric, Heather,

Done, and also on the Meetup page ... it looks pretty good :-)

https://twitter.com/functionalbton
http://www.meetup.com/Functional-Brighton/

We need to come up with a better background for the Twitter profile
... at the moment the default Twitter-blue clashes a bit with the blue
of the logo. A bit cliched for a Brighton thing, but maybe a photo of
the pier or the Pavilion or somesuch? Or something Skiff related?

The logo blue matches the Meetup page blue quite nicely, at least to
my eyes ... Heather, was that intentional?

The Google+ page wanted a larger image (min 250x250px) so I've left
that as-is for the moment.

Cheers,


Miles

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Eric Kow <eric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Miles,
>
> I had a chat with Heather.
> She suggested we try putting this in our Twitter avatar now just so people
> get an idea how it's used in practise.
>
> Heather and Jay are disappearing for holiday for quite some time in a few
> days, so it's probably a good idea to get this sort :-)
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: "heather" <heather...@yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: functional brighton logo feedback
> Date: 3 August 2012 20:21:28 GMT+01:00
> To: "'Eric Kow'" <eric...@gmail.com>
> Message-Id: <13C8C5ED49B84B0F891C2802BF1B0617@HeatherPC>
>
> Hey Eric
> Can you try these out. I confess we altered the eye and beak of the bird
> as
> well as the colour of the lambda. This improves it in our eyes hope others
> are in agreement.
> Speak soon
> X
> H
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Kow [mailto:eric...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 03 August 2012 12:45
> To: Heather Smith
> Subject: functional brighton logo feedback
>
> Looks like people are happy!
>
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/functional-brighton/dcb_U_qCd2M/discussion
>
> Note the t-shirt question ;-)
>
> If nobody objects in the next couple of days, I'll make the bank transfer
> (do I have your details?).
>
> I think we'll be interested in having the vector graphics file too if
> that's
> ok (in case we need to do this large scale for any reason). Any comments
> on
> how licensing etc would work? My natural inclination is for FB to put
> this
> on a Creative Commons license (probably share-alike) so that people can
> re-use this logo and modify it at will.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>



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[Eric Kow]

Hi,

I think it looks good. The twitter blue background is not really an issue IMHO because people tend to see the logo as part of their regular twitter feed, either in the web client which has a grey background, or an app like tweetbot

Unfortunately, I never really mentioned the other pages (meetup, G+) to Heather and Jay

[Eric Kow]

Oh wait, hang on, that's probably because I use a grey bg in my profile page for the web client.

Hmm :-/

[Miles Sabin]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Eric Kow <eric...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh wait, hang on, that's probably because I use a grey bg in my profile page for the web client.
>
> Hmm :-/

It looks just fine as an avatar in peoples timelines ... it's just on
the @functionalbton profile page that it clashes, and that's a problem
with the default profile page background, not the logo background ...
I think the logo is just fine as it is :-)

Cheers,


Miles

[Eric Kow]

On 4 Aug 2012, at 13:45, Miles Sabin wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Eric Kow <eric...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh wait, hang on, that's probably because I use a grey bg in my profile page for the web client.
>>
>> Hmm :-/
>
> It looks just fine as an avatar in peoples timelines ... it's just on
> the @functionalbton profile page that it clashes, and that's a problem
> with the default profile page background, not the logo background ...
> I think the logo is just fine as it is :-)

Doh, sorry, Erician pseudo-reading habits strikes again.
Would a plain bg matching the logo colour work?

[Miles Sabin]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Eric Kow <eric...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Doh, sorry, Erician pseudo-reading habits strikes again.

:D

> Would a plain bg matching the logo colour work?

I'm sure that between us we can come up with a suitably Brighton-
and/or FP-themed image for the background.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I wonder if the giant prawn on the
seafront can be made to look vaguely lambda-like?