Hi,
On 27.07.2015 13:59, Michael Reichert wrote:
Hi everybody,
over the last weeks I have worked on a couple of logo drafts for OpenRailwayMap which has up to now no project logo. I have already presented prior drafts to rurseekatze, Dakon and bigbug21 ? now it is time for your feedback. All drafts base on the feedback I recieved from them.
I have uploaded my draft to OpenStreetMap wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Openrailwaymap-logo-selection.svg
Some additional comments to my drafts: Prior drafts contained a German/Polish semaphore main signal. Because we want not to look outdated, I decided to use a light signal. The current light signal has lots of German elements but AFAIK such a signal is not used on a German railway line (it may be used by a German subway company). There are signals which look very similar to this in Kalsruhe and around Mannheim on branch lines but these signals have their white speed light signal above the green lamp. The white-red-white pole sign can be found on lots of German main signals.
I do not want to have to much similarities to the OpenStreetMap logo. First, nobody can guarantee that ORM will use OSM as the single data source in future and, second, OSM logo is a trademark registred by OSMF. You can still find elements at my drafts which can also be found at the OSM logo ? a folded map and some landuse and boundaries on the map.
I would like to hear your feedback about my drafts.
I think they are too small. You cannot recognize anything of the details when it is resized to a size in which icons are usually used (16x16 to, let's say, 64x64). [0]
I've tried to create an improved version based on your suggestion, see the attached file [1]. I've made the "rails" a little longer to make them more dominant [2]. I also added a white border around the signal because that is something that's part of a signal in quite a few countries, and it makes it a little less "German" :)
The fact that I chose the yellow pencil is rather random, the blue one is fine, too (I don't like the gray one however.) I created this before you posted the columns 5 and 6; I do like the green-yellow thing [3] and the post colors of these suggestions, maybe one could merge that into my design; but I'd like to hear some comments first.
Besides, I don't like the variant with the paper roll; in case this is some kind of vote :)
Marian
[0] of course, one always has to adjust the logo a bit to make it look nice in small sizes, but I think your first drafts are too far away from that. [1] Choose one of Public Domain/CC-0/Beerware. [2] although I'm not sure if this black-white-dashed thing is something that is associated with trains everywhere, maybe it's just a German convention? [3] I suggest putting yellow above green, to have one more detail where it differs from road traffic lights.
