FiloSottile / age

A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
https://age-encryption.org
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Graphics design: A logo for 'age'? #192

Closed spacesynth closed 3 years ago

spacesynth commented 3 years ago

shinto_torii_fix

Some package repositories wish that a logo is provided for software. Whilst it is not demanded, it can help users to recognize the package they want.

Age introduces itself as being:

called “age”, which might be an acronym for Actually Good Encryption, and it’s pronounced like the Japanese 上げ (with a hard g).

Based on its strong Japanese reference I chose to propose a very simplistic logo design:

CC0 - public domain SVG were used to render the above PNG. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shinto_torii_icon_vermillion.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Office-protection-shackle-keyhole.svg

Any other logo may be suggested or this idea may be completely scrapped. This is merely the attempt to encourage an actual graphics designer to come up with something we can use, if a logo is wanted.

Examples of good design: https://github.com/Tox https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/README.md

tunnckoCore commented 3 years ago

The Tox one is cool idea.

Probably some black square with rounded corners, and inside instead of keylock, to be the Torii in white, and in the middle of it again in ~black~ white - a keyhole.

spacesynth commented 3 years ago

torii_min torii_min_2

black square with rounded corners, and inside instead of keylock, to be the Torii in white, and in the middle of it again in black a keyhole

Gotcha!

tunnckoCore commented 3 years ago

EXACTLY! :laughing:

Love it. :rocket: