About the MX Linux logo

[Melber]

To clarify, I was not proposing to change the mx logo.
I just like fiddling with graphics (see the mx fluxbox screenshots thread) and saw some potential in the logo.
Will perhaps use it to make a wallpaper, if that's ok with you @Freja

[Amigo]

Good day everyone,

Here is my logo variant. If anyone is interested please let me know and I can share the .svg files

Saludos

[AVLinux]

Alright, now that we've all gotten excited about a new logo, I do want to ask something which will very probably rain on this parade.

Is it really a good idea for MX to change its logo during this stage of the game? I fear the logo change is probably gonna reset the "brand awareness" that MX currently has, even if the new logo is better looking. Like it or not, people know MX by the old logo, and the old logo has been there for years now.

If we were still really small, we could get away with it. Or if we were Ubuntu's size, we could get away with it too, but I don't think any logo change when we're right in the middle is a good idea.

Hi,

I think this is a good point in principle but a project the size of MX will not even skip a beat with a logo change, i changed the AV Linux logo last year and of course I am a MUCH small project but still consistently in the DW top 100 and there was zero fallout. People are in love with MX because it's incredible not because of brand recognition with the logo.. You simply time the logo change with a major release, make it a big deal in the release announcement and it appears in a few popular tech blog articles and that's it... onward and upward

I am also strongly in the 'clean' and simple camp, make it simple, memorable and iconic...(literally and figuratively). And why is 'Linux' often in the logo of Distros..? You will know within a millisecond of reading that it is Linux, MacOS doesn't say "MacOS-BSD" and Windows doesn't say Windows-DOS. I'm also guilty I did the same for years but if you study many of the mainstream Distros like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, openSUSE they have strongly unmistakable symbol first and foremost... sure it may be presented with text some of the time but the symbols on their own tell you what you're dealing with..

[AVLinux]

Good day everyone,

Here is my logo variant. If anyone is interested please let me know and I can share the .svg files

Saludos

VERY interesting!!

[Amigo]

Glad you like it!

Saludos

[Adrian]

Nice design, I think this might work better on buttons, like the start menu.

It also looks more in line with the current logo, not a completely different style.

[Antediluvian]

Here is my logo variant. If anyone is interested please let me know and I can share the .svg files

Yes, very nice @Amigo! It emphasizes the M whereas the old logo emphasizes the X. My family calls the old logo the “windmill” in part because they don’t see it as an MX representation, just a big X.

It would make a good Panel button in B&W or a color like red & green.

[AVLinux]

Here is my logo variant. If anyone is interested please let me know and I can share the .svg files

Yes, very nice @Amigo! It emphasizes the M whereas the old logo emphasizes the X. My family calls the old logo the “windmill” in part because they don’t see it as an MX representation, just a big X.

It would make a good Panel button in B&W or a color like red & green.

Hi, that's funny I see the same thing, the X being square does put out a tremendous Windmill vibe... I thought all those years with my Dutch ex had indoctrinated me but it's comforting to know others see it too!

[Amigo]

Here is an example of how it looks on the panel

[AVLinux]

Here is an example of how it looks on the panel

Great work so far! Another good test will be how does it look in a square or round icon for things like various MX Tools or Menu buttons or Dialogs etc.. One thing about Freja's Logo work earlier in the thread is I don't know how the thin lines and text would scale down to icons and buttons...?