6:58 p.m.
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want not to look outdated, I decided to use a light signal.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.
