make a new logo

[chadwhitacre]

That's the copyleft logo. While open companies and copyleft are related, do we really want to use the same logo?

[timothyfcook]

I was unawares. Ours is green? It's just so perfect. An 'O' (Open) with a 'c' (company) inside it.

I think it could make sense to keep it. It's meta. It's appropriating the copyleft logo and remixing it (the whole point of copyleft) and it's building on the cultural movement started by the open-source/copy-lefters.

[clone1018]

Maybe flip the C so it's facing the right direction?

[clone1018]

Or maybe a combination of the symbol from http://opensource.org/files/garland_logo.png combined with the C in the middle, a circle is a good representation of "closed" not open :p.

[chadwhitacre]

@clone1018 ahem Like this? :copyright: ;-)

[clone1018]

Gah whit you just blew my mind. For some reason I had forgotten what the copyright symbol looked like :(

[timothyfcook]

the circle is an "O" for Open. No reason why you can't appropriate the Copyright symbol?

[timothyfcook]

[timothyfcook]

: ) ![Uploading opencompany3.png . . .]()

[clone1018]

Something like that but with an actual not shit font.

[timothyfcook]

I like this one!

[clone1018]

Don't see how this says "open"?

[timothyfcook]

it's the inverse of the copyright symbol. the circle is open just like in yours.

[clone1018]

Oh I get it. I like it.

[timothyfcook]

Cool! It might be more obvious in black/white.

[timothyfcook]

I kind of want to make it so my mind doesn't see the 'C' first, but sees the black part as the symbol.

[timothyfcook]

[timothyfcook]

[timothyfcook]

http://opencompany.biz/

[chadwhitacre]

Brainstorm:

In other contexts I've used the radial gradiant to represent how an open company doesn't have a firmly defined boundary but rather includes everyone to one degree or another.

[chadwhitacre]

Not a huge fan of gradients in logos as a rule, though. They're hard to reproduce in all of the contexts in which a logo has to function (favicons, t-shirts, etc.).

[clone1018]

The only thing I care about here is the radius of the outside line of the c being the same proportion as the circle containing it.

[chadwhitacre]

How about this (sketch, would tighten up for @clone1018)?

• the outer line is the inside line of a "C"
• the negative space forms an "O"
• the right side are like gates opening
• imagine this is home plate, the lines go on for ever, baseball is the only major American sport that's infinite, unbounded in both time and space
• reminiscent of the OSI keyhole

[steveklabnik]

I like it! The keyhole aspect is important: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oniWVV2k1Pg

[chadwhitacre]

Deployed.

[chadwhitacre]

The keyhole aspect is important: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oniWVV2k1Pg

Hah! :D