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[lazarusA]

We are missing a proper logo for this package. Any ideas, suggestions in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Maybe @pdimens would have nice suggestions. His recent work on Tidier.jl was amazing.

[pdimens]

Ah, thanks! Would you mind giving me a brief explanation of this package?

[lazarusA]

Yet another xarray-like (YAXArrays) Julia package. Is designed to handle large scale out-of-core geospatial datasets among workers and threads.

A package for operating on out-of-core labeled arrays, based on stores like NetCDF, Zarr or GDAL. Similar to xarray but in Julia.

@felixcremer could be more verbose about it, I suppose.

[pdimens]

Are there any themes or ideas you might be interested in incorporating?

[lazarusA]

maybe something like the following, but better 😄 , better colours, name, etc. But yeah, something along those lines.

[pdimens]

Ok, I'll think on it. My initial idea was to be a bit playful and use a Jenga theme. Something like The idea being that a large dataset can be sliced arbitrarily, like sliding out the blocks from a Jenga tower.

[lazarusA]

Ohh, that's a good idea. As long as there is a 3d perspective element. Hence the cube of cubes above. In reality, yes our data structures do look like a Jenga.

[pdimens]

Here's some initial drafts. I welcome your suggestions :smile:

[pdimens]

Another idea

[lazarusA]

thanks so much for taking the time and effort, I do like the last one. And if were just me I will go for that one 😄 , but, @felixcremer and @meggart what do you guys think?

[pdimens]

I went with Julia colors (obvs) but it can be whatever you like.

[MartinuzziFrancesco]

those are very nice designs, thanks for taking the time! my two cents are that I'd keep the name and logo separated (like in the first logo) so the image can be shrunk and it still remains clear

[gdkrmr]

I have an idea, in case you like hexagonal logos: if you view a cube just from the right angle, it looks like a hexagon. At least in parallel perspective.

[pdimens]

R runs a monopoly on hexagon logos.

[pdimens]

Is there a preference for typeface of the package name? I went with a sans serif, but I will gladly change the font to whatever you may prefer.

[pdimens]

Here is another draft, using blue/yellow like your mockup above, serif text, julia styling

[pdimens]

@lazarusA any consensus on this?

[lazarusA]

waiting for @meggart feedback here, let's do it for now until a new refactor is in place. I will say left. Or maybe right with the cube from the left 😄.

[pdimens]

Something like this?

[gdkrmr]

My 2 cents:

• Why are the slices not regular?
• The gaps between cubes are too small, this must look good when reduced in size
• Why not use a more modern font without serifs?

[pdimens]

@gdkrmr

1. What do you mean not regular? The viewing perspective is what makes the bricks appear to be different sizes
2. Gaps can be increased, that's trivial
3. Please suggest a font. There are thousands and it will not be a good use of time to upload dozens of screenshots for individual approval.

[gdkrmr]

• What do you mean not regular? The viewing perspective is what makes the bricks appear to be different sizes

With not regular I mean that the chunks are of different sizes, you have some that are (3, 1, 1) in size and others that are (1, 3, 1) in size.

• Gaps can be increased, that's trivial

• Please suggest a font. There are thousands and it will not be a good use of time to upload dozens of screenshots for individual approval.

Something that looks more modern. The name is also quite long, so I would go with something condensed and drop the .jl at the end. I prepared some samples below

From top to bottom:

• Fira Sans
• Droid Sans
• Fira Sans Condensed
• Nimbus Sans
• Nimbus Sans Narrow
• Bitstream Vera Sans
• DejaVu Sans
• TeX Gyre Heros Cn

My favorite is Fira Sans Condensed.

[lazarusA]

I don't like the idea about dropping the .jl part from the name. That's like the signature of any Julia package. Plus is easier to google it, the results are more consistent.

[meggart]

I really like the design of the last logo, however, I agree with Guido that the chunks should have the same shape in each of the layers to reflect a bit more on what the internal chunking of a real dataset would look like

[gdkrmr]

I don't like the idea about dropping the .jl part from the name. That's like the signature of any Julia package. Plus is easier to google it, the results are more consistent.

You are probably right about findability. I think package name is quite long already, adding .jl is probably better.

I really like the design of the last logo, however, I agree with Guido that the chunks should have the same shape in each of the layers to reflect a bit more on what the internal chunking of a real dataset would look like

Agreed, the logo is cool, just needs some adjustment.

[pdimens]

Here are two variants with equal chunks.

[pdimens]

Here is the same two, using the perspective to create a hexagon

[pdimens]

@gdkrmr @lazarusA What are you opinions of the 4 latest drafts?

[lazarusA]

I would go for a PR with number 2, latest post with YAXArrays.jl (first font option from @gdkrmr ).

[gdkrmr]

Sorry for not replying earlier I really like the new logo. Thanks for taking the time to do this!. I think it looks very cool!