[flashrom] New flashrom logo

David Hendricks david.hendricks at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 09:20:43 CET 2015


+1 to soic8_30degrees.

The lightning bolt could be a a tiny bit smaller IMO, but no big deal
either way.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Stefan Tauner <
stefan.tauner at alumni.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we have used two logos in the past for flashrom. The one most are
> familiar with is actually a generic icon stemming from coreboot's
> "Related Tools" section, i.e.:
> http://www.coreboot.org/images/a/ae/Chip_tools.png
> This is not only set up as the "Mediawiki" icon on flashrom.org but is
> also used on our Twitter account and other sites like openhub
> (https://www.openhub.net/p/flashrom)
>
> The second logo was specifically designed for this purpose and was used
> at various occasions in presentation slides and on marketing materials
> (e.g. posters). Namely
>
> http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_PTt3TWYKjnQ/TI_oZ3cqvaI/AAAAAAAAALY/eLvM6K16Glw/s400/logo9white.png
> (the one described as "Different style of bolt" on
> http://kmacphail.blogspot.de/2010/09/flashrom-logos.html)
> I think that one is way lesser known since even I was not really aware
> about the fact that it kind of the "official" logo at the moment.
>
>
> I am not too happy with either. The hammer logo has grown dear to me...
> the hammer perfectly symbolizes the force we have to exert to get some
> systems to work and the logo as such is very recognizable. But... I
> only have it in very low quality... is there a better source for it?
> It also does not represent our generally gentle and cautious approach
> when dealing with hardware and our focus on stability.
>
> The DIP logo on the other hand is available in SVG (at least
> Carl-Daniel has it AFAIK), but it looks a bit inanimate. The major
> problems I have with it are that it is not even nearly rectangular and
> it is very complex. There is the text with the lightning bolt replacing
> the h character and the DIP32 chip. Both is ok for posters and other
> big displays but sucks for other uses where simple, rectangular icons
> are required.
>
> I have spent the last weekend with playing around with Blender and its
> freestyle renderer that is able to output SVG directly. I have managed
> to render a 3D model of a SOIC8 chip that way as a base for a possible
> new logo. It required some cleanup afterwards but it looks way better
> than everything I could draw by hand ;)
>
> I have made two logos that I think are worth sharing. They are quite
> similar and the only major difference is the orientation of the chip...
> I have created 3 versions of each: one fully colored, one with outlines
> only and a two-colored simple version (e.g. for PCB silkscreens). I
> have attached the Inkscape SVGs as well as 96 pixel-wide PNG exports. I
> have not decided on an appropriate license... probably something
> similar to how the coreboot hare is licensed.
>
> What do you think about my suggestions and the whole matter? I would
> love to see proposals for alternatives as well!
> --
> Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner
>
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