logo ideas

[ghost]

Let's all make some logos!

I'll go first:

svg file

license: public domain / CC0

Some other ideas:

• IO the moon of Jupiter
• network/disk/RAM/CPU
• octogons for the 8 in v8

[i5ting]

greate job

[karlbright]

I can't wait to stick that hard drive on my laptop lid.

[ghostbar]

Maybe something more simple?

I love @substack 's proposal but don't know if it will be easy to stamp on tshirts and that kind of stuff logos are mostly used for. svg here

[zeke]

svg file

[andrewliebchen]

+1 for @zeke

[karlbright]

During my lunch break.

[ryanstevens]

+1 for @karlbright, nice job!

[jbergstroem]

I'm with @substack. Octagon O, binary, 10, etc. Probably needs the full "js" as a kicker, but that's for later.

svg under public domain "license".

[ghost]

sticker pack:

licence: public domain or CC0 at your choice

[travisjeffery]

@substack these are really cool. nice work!

[yoshuawuyts]

@zeke does it also come in JavaScript yellow?

[hacksparrow]

"I" and an octagonal "O" in the z axis.

[coodoo]

@substack It's 2014 now can't we at least have SSD for the log? :P

[chrisdickinson]

a kind of silly 4-color:

[chrisdickinson]

also, some jupiter transit:

(based on and )

I think @substack's is my favorite thus far, though :)

[kt3k]

The inner star is an (irregular) octagon. It looks similar to Shuriken, a weapon of (JavaScript) ninja.

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[sintaxi]

@substack beautiful.

[greelgorke]

@karlbright's one is my favorite so far, with a small change the yellow circle made to octagon

[ThisIsMissEm]

@kylebright nice idea, but I'd switch the arrow direction, as currently it's accidentally symbolising backwards (anti-clockwise) movement, which as a forward thinking project it is symbolising the opposite of what we desire to do.

@zeke wasn't that logo style used by google I/O conference at some point?

On @substacks' design? It'll become illegible at smaller resolutions and printing will likely bleed. Also if seen in grey-scale it'll loose clarity. Similar on @chrisdickinson's Jupiter design, although I do love that rusty red color.

Given all my words here, I'll work on a few concepts when I get a moment.

[yuchi]

As a bystander:

• [ ] Choose mascot geometry shape
  • Octagon — see Federick II
  • Hexagon — the de-facto standard Web-ish shape
  • other…
• [ ] Choose colors
  • JS-ish Yellow — unoffical but stabilized
  • Acid Green — Node style
  • Red — aggressive, attack first
  • @substack’s 80s Galore — freaking awesome
  • other…
• [ ] Choose style
  • @zeke’s minimalist
  • @substack’s cell-shaded, reduced, minimalist figurative
  • @chrisdickinson’s space-oriented, figurative, decorative
  • @karlbright’s metaphoric
  • other…

The octagon is IMHO fantastic. It has always been the symbol for rational thought, and I love it. But it’s not stackable as an hexagon is. So we’re losing some points on the ‘scalability’ concept there.

@substack colors are fantastic, but work only on figurative designs. JS-ish yellow-ish is by far the easiest path.

[yuchi]

@kt3k By the way, I personally don‘t like the idea of JS-ers to be ninjas. Quick, dirty and criminal. (I love ninjas anyway). If we have to go criminal let’s go pirate :)

[yuchi]

And a last note, the harddrive in @substack idea is perfectly executed but lacks of comunicative energy. Is io.js just a library for async disk io operations?

[karlbright]

Got to spend a little more time at having another crack with some ideas before leaving work. Someone can polish these up if they say any potential, it definitely needs more time.

Idea being the octagon for V8 as @substack mentioned. Then the right hand side being the node colour and looking like an arrow forward before forming an I as the colours transition. This can work in B&W as well with some work and seperation between some elements. The "ribbons" were kind of meant as a way to show I/O without throwing arrows around.

license: public domain / CC0

[madbence]

@karlbright +1 (I really like the 2nd one)

[phpnode]

@karlbright very much looks like "no" rather than "i/o"

[juliangruber]

@phpnode haha perfect!

[karlbright]

@phpnode I agree, needs some work. perhaps the I is formed from the bottom, or not joined at all. Throw around some ideas.

[joates]

i'm doing loads of online 3D stuff these days so i did this mock-up..

here is the live demo & GLSL code

i think it could easily be simplified for e.g. a t-shirt print (something like a threshold filter : )

[edit] threshold version looks like this (needs tidying, this is just an very crude example)

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[jeffwhelpley]

I like @zeke's the best so far. We should try to avoid anything cartoony. Node/io.js is simple and low level but very powerful which is why I would want a simple, elegant logo. The only issue with @zeke's is that it is not unique/easily identifiable. Perhaps a variation of this with a couple tweaks to make it unique.

[basicallydan]

@zeke's is really great but doesn't it bear too much resemblance to Node's logo style with the hexagons?

:+1: @karlbright, shadows on the second one are great - the style in general works well as it can easily be flattened and look good as a silhouette.

Let's not forget the importance of how the logo will look when it's desaturated/flat/turned into a decal.

[indutny]

@chrisdickinson +1

[nighca]

@karlbright +1 love the 2nd one~

[jhnns]

@karlbright 's first one :+1:

Only the bright yellow area doesn't set itself enough apart from the white background.

[indutny]

oh, actually! @karlbright they are looking awesome.

[ThisIsMissEm]

Flipping the slash there and making it layer in a clockwise motion, and I think it’d look great!

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Got to spend a little more time at having another crack with some ideas before leaving work. Someone can polish these up if they say any potential, it definitely needs more time.

Idea being the octagon for V8 as @substack mentioned. Then the right hand side being the node colour and looking like an arrow forward before forming an I as the colours transition. This can work in B&W as well with some work and seperation between some elements.

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[yuchi]

Why don’t we go crazy with octagons on something nerdy like this:

It’s an hyperbolic plane, with a regular octagonal tessellation. See http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/68271

[karlbright]

Scribbles.

[ThisIsMissEm]

The bottom one looks inline with what I was thinking; I suspect the / may still look better overlayed on top of the I though.

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Scribbles.

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[ghostbar]

@karlbright your sketches look great!

[Fishrock123]

Wow. Just wow. I love everyone's designs so much.

Can we have like a bunch of logos? :D

[reqshark]

ya like @substack's sticker pack! rotating logo spectrum

[Fishrock123]

I wish you could upvote comments.

I really like @chrisdickinson's triangle one, but it's pretty subtle.

Also like: @jbergstroem's IO, @substack's sticker pack, @karlbright's IO.

[reqshark]

@Fishrock123, hey good point. i also really like this node forward one from the website

[Fishrock123]

@reqshark I'd rather we come up with something ourselves haha, I think we should leave that for node-forward. :)

[mikeal]

At first I was worried about using hexagons because when Node Forward had a hexagon based logo it was something Joyent was upset about and so I changed it hoping they would calm down (they didn't). Now that I've had some time to think about it though I don't think it matters, you can't trademark hexagons, and we aren't calling it node-* so whatever.

@karlbright I love where your's is going, especially the color fade from JS yellow to Node green. My only concern is how this might work on stickers. Perhaps if the "I" was inside the hexagon, that would also solve the "No" issue.

[mikeal]

@karlbright playing on one of your earlier designs

[greelgorke]

@mikeal let them sue all of them: https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=hexagon+logo&hl=en&gbv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TyJ_VNGqMoaoyAT0vICABw&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=1075#hl=en&gbv=2&tbm=isch&q=hexagon+logo

[mikeal]

@greelgorke in everywhere but Brazil, trademarks are specific to an area, so they have "node.js" in software with a reference to their hexagon design. The test for infringement is "can one be confused for the other" and so being a fork is part of the context. That said, our name is sufficiently different that a reasonable person can tell them apart so I don't think it's a problem.

[yuchi]

@mikeal +1 But what about a rounded octagon?

[yuchi]

(built with inkscape, polygon w/ 8 sides and 0.154 of rounding)