Here we go... It's "Tarsnap" in Helvetica, which is one of the simplest, strongest and "purest" typeface; the letters have been put closer together for stronger impact (esp. the a under the T, see below). There's a period at the end for a sense of "obviousness": Tarsnap: enough said. The first two letters are in a different color (with influence from a recent TV show ;-), as if it were a chemical element (Tantalum is virtually immune to corrosion, which seems appropriate). The logo scales indefinitely, but at very small scales we should remove the shadow. The favicon would use only "Ta" which is almost square. Tell me what you think! Regards, EB On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 3:16 PM, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote: > Hi Tarsnap users, > > Tarsnap needs a logo. Some people think that it has needed a logo for a long > time, but I've decided this need is now urgent: As of an hour ago, Tarsnap is > a Silver sponsor of the FreeBSD Foundation, and this means their donors list > will include a logo instead of just a name... or rather, would if Tarsnap had > a logo. > > I'm completely useless at anything artistic, so I'm hoping a Tarsnap user can > come up with something good. Consequently, I'm launching today a Tarsnap logo > contest, ending on October 31st. If you submit a logo which I decide to use, > you win $500. In the event that nobody submits a logo I like, I'll take the > $500 and launch this as a contest on 99designs.com; but they take a large > commission, so I'd prefer to pay someone directly, and I figure that Tarsnap > users are more likely to know what Tarsnap is all about than random artists on > 99designs. > > I'm looking for a logo which I can use: > * In the top left corner of the Tarsnap website, > * As a favicon for the website, > * On the @tarsnap twitter account, and > * As a 128 x 128 or smaller logo to put onto the FreeBSD Foundation donors > page (and for any other open source projects Tarsnap sponsors). > > Obviously these images don't need to be identical; if the logo contains a > graphic plus the text "Tarsnap", the favicon might be the graphic alone, for > example. I think for most or all purposes all I'd want to have is a PNG, but > you get bonus points if you can provide something scalable and tell me how to > create PNGs from it on-demand. > > I have no idea what a good Tarsnap logo would look like; it might be graphical, > it might just be a typesetting of "Tarsnap", or it might be something I can't > even imagine yet. It should be consistent with the characteristics of Tarsnap, > however; think "secure", "reliable", "serious", "unix" rather than "colourful", > "fun", "web 2.0", "social", etc. > > Feel free to discuss this on the list, or to email me if you have any questions. > I look forward to seeing what people come up with! > > -- > Colin Percival > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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