[Matplotlib-devel] MPL2 Logo

[Michael Droettboom]

I think it's a great idea to look carefully at branding as a whole, and 
not take any changes lightly.  Thanks for getting that ball rolling, Thomas.

One thing that occurred to me today, as I walked into the Javits Center 
and saw the matplotlib logo reproduced about 5 feet wide on a banner 
hanging above the expo hall, is that we have a lot of inertia in the 
current design, and we shouldn't take any change lightly.  As much as we 
are moving to a better color map, the colors in the logo (and the orange 
especially )are a strong part of the branding and branding in Scipy 
projects in general.

Mike

On 09/24/2015 10:43 PM, Thomas Caswell wrote:
> I think any redesign of the logo should go together with a wider 
> ranging overhaul of the website, it's information architecture, and 
> our visual identity. To that end I have enlisted a professional web 
> developer/designer to help us (disclosure, my fiancee).  There 
> probably won't be much work done in that direction until after our 
> wedding next month.
>
> I like the idea, but am hesitant to make any changes in isolation.
>
> Tom
>
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:54 PM Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ben.v.root at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I am not against changing the logo, but if we do so, then it
>     should be a much more significant change. I actually like the jet
>     version of the logo better because of the wide variety of colors.
>     Uniform perception isn't a needed trait for graphs like those.
>
>     On Sep 24, 2015 8:17 PM, "OceanWolf"
>     <juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk
>     <mailto:juichenieder-nabb at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         Looking at the current logo, I wondered whether we would want
>         to change this as part of the style changes when we release
>         2.0... as well as marketing our new style, the current logo
>         uses jet to make the graph...
>
>         Playing around with the examples/api/logo2.py I found changing
>         line 68 to:
>
>         bar.set_facecolor(cm.viridis(r/8.))
>
>         gave pleasing results with the largest wedge getting coloured
>         green (see attached for uncropped version).
>
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