On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:03:59 -0800 Vadim Bendebury vbendeb@chromium.org wrote:
Not that I care much, but I can't help it: this new symbol looks very much like the infamous SS Bolts: http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/ss-bolts.html#.VPSXeFX3-...
Yes, it could be mistaken for a sig rune although it clearly differs (the rune is not formed as an arrow on the bottom but is symmetric). I would not use two of this or similar symbols side by side because it could easily be seen as a political statement I definitely don't want to make. But on the other hand there are a lot of other (admittedly less known) runes and symbols used by the SS or other Nazi organizations that we use on a daily basis probably without even knowing it... (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_insignia_of_the_Schutzstaffel#mediaviewe...)
So thanks for bringing this up - it is a valid concern - but I draw the line not to cross elsewhere.
On 03.03.2015 00:50, Stefan Tauner wrote:
On Mon, 2 Mar 2015 09:03:59 -0800 Vadim Bendebury vbendeb@chromium.org wrote:
Not that I care much, but I can't help it: this new symbol looks very much like the infamous SS Bolts: http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/hate-on-display/c/ss-bolts.html#.VPSXeFX3-...
Yes, it could be mistaken for a sig rune although it clearly differs (the rune is not formed as an arrow on the bottom but is symmetric). I would not use two of this or similar symbols side by side because it could easily be seen as a political statement I definitely don't want to make.
This is one of the reasons the lightning bolt of the old official logo looks the way it does. The following features had been chosen to avoid any unfortunate visual associations: - close in design to the "high voltage warning" sign used in Germany - a bigger distance between the two long strokes - the long strokes are slightly angled and not parallel - one of the long strokes is terminated in arrow form.
I do like Stefan's renderings of SOIC8 chips. They represent the current form of hardware we're working with, and I would like to see them in combination with the old official lightning bolt form. That would give us a modern new logo and at the same time avoid any unfortunate visual associations.
For easier comparison of the two bolt forms, I extracted them from the original svg logos they were part of. No further editing/clipping/rotation was done.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 5:54 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> wrote:
This is one of the reasons the lightning bolt of the old official logo looks the way it does. The following features had been chosen to avoid any unfortunate visual associations:
- close in design to the "high voltage warning" sign used in Germany
- a bigger distance between the two long strokes
- the long strokes are slightly angled and not parallel
- one of the long strokes is terminated in arrow form.
I do like Stefan's renderings of SOIC8 chips. They represent the current form of hardware we're working with, and I would like to see them in combination with the old official lightning bolt form. That would give us a modern new logo and at the same time avoid any unfortunate visual associations.
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