Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 00:52:01 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Ceri Davies" <ceri@submonkey.net>, "Jonathan Horne" <jhorne@dfwlp.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: New FreeBSD Logo Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEOPFDAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <C087E1CE.DB81%ceri@submonkey.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Ceri Davies [mailto:ceri@submonkey.net] >Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 10:31 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Jonathan Horne; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: New FreeBSD Logo > > >On 10/5/06 09:18, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > >> >> Someone already posted a professional analysis. The summary was that >> the new logo was amateurish with some serious flaws. >Amateurish because >> a ball is about the easiest thing you can produce in >Photoshop and very >> unoriginal. Serious flaws because due to all the shading this logo is >> impossible to accurately reproduce on small items like business cards, >> and on larger items the shading makes it very expensive to >reproduce due >> to the number of colors used. > >In fact, there are reduced colour versions for exactly that >reason. Since >you didn't bother to look for them, I guess this isn't the real >issue for >you, though. > I was merely relating what the summary was. But, I think you fail to understand the point - the summary said that the shading is impossible to reproduce accurately on small items, a reduced color image simply is an official statement of "yeah, we know it's flawed in that it cannot be accurately reduced, so here's a substitute" It is like you got a car that is leaking oil at a rate of a quart a week and someone's "fix" for it is to give you a coupon for 4 free cases of oil. I guess that's technically a "fix", hope your rod bearings stand up to it, though. Ted
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