PR preparations for the upcoming UAVCAN v1.0 release: new website, new logo

a message bus drives into this thread

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the message bus is unstoppable

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nobody expected a pulse train inside a bus

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:smiley: (no one expects to bike-shed over a logo!)

What if I used Russo One?

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Logo is important.

I do not have strong feelings towards any particular font face.

The option 2 could be okay if we spelled the word “UAVCAN” in its entirety (otherwise we’re kind of promoting the old acronym). And possibly added a second line on top, representing the roof of a bike shed.

Not impressed by a pulse bus? Try data bus!

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Scales quite well, too: data-bus

Do you want to vote over what accent color will be used first?
Recommendations: https://material.io/design/color/the-color-system.html#color-usage-palettes

… and then we can come up with something that semantically represents the purpose of this library. I may sketch something up in photoshop later

Do you want to vote over what accent color will be used first?

It should be a superintelligent shade of blue.

This concept represents a regular bike shed:

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This font very decidedly evokes the United States Navy. It looks like the name on the side of an aircraft carrier.

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(sorry, I’m a bad person)

You have to be very careful with block fonts. Most evoke either collegiate sports or the military.

Here’s my input for colours

https://color.adobe.com/UAVCAN-color-theme-12106273/

a logo using the primary blue colour from that theme:

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I grow weary of this thread. Save us @Zarkopafilis!

Can’t win, can we? I suggest we just go with Comic Sans.

I swear I will hire a professional designer unless we agree on something very soon. Yes, this is a threat.

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bus-simplified

bus-simplified-1700b3

Further reduction:

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final-proposal

  • yes
  • no

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Thank you all for voting.

I hereby benevolently dictate that this is our new logo:

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And favicon:

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The color #1700b3 is chosen from the color palette suggested by Scott above. For future reference, the other colors from that palette are: #0003ee, #00dac6, #007e87, and #b00036. If we are unhappy with the choice of color, we can still change that.

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@pavel.kirienko can we please post vector files as well?

Disregard, I see they are in SVG format.

Yep, and they are also available on GitHub here:

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Also available in ASCII

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