Here's my humble attempt based on an original design in OpenOffice Draw.
It consists of a full-scale logo and a reduced size kernel (for favicon or other space-limited use).
Inspiration:
I wanted to create a vault-like resemblence for security, hence the outer rings.
The middle bar is perforated ("snapped") and snaps the word "tarsnap" in two, but also resembles network packets.
The bar fading towards the edges suggests its circular nature i.e. the globe.
The font is Ethnocentric by Ray Larabie, part of Typodermic Fonts' Larabie Fonts collection and free for commercial use.
Look forward to hearing comments...
Regards,
MB
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Michael Bütow
Michael Bütow
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Full-size:
Kernel (e.g. favicon)
Colin Percival wrote on 09/28/2013 02:16 PM:
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!