Life In 19x19

Hey, not sure if this is the right board, but figured this most nearly fit, the project's not launched yet, so announcements seemed like the wrong board. Feel free to move this if needed.

Just looking for opinions on a logo design for a new Go project. All designs are rough, they are not the finished product! Anyhow, please reply with your favorite! Any comments, questions, etc., are welcome!

Hard to say anything without context. I think most people will choose the first because it's the only one with a grid and stone. But if there is another graphic with stones, then one of the others might be more appealing. I'd want to see two stones in number 1 - a white stone and a black stone.

No image is loading for me and I don't see a hidden link anywhere.

I think I'd pick 2. Having a stone is nice, but the first logo is just big thanks to the stone hanging down (would it actually display at that size?). I'd also put one well ahead of three.

hyperpape wrote:I think I'd pick 2. Having a stone is nice, but the first logo is just big thanks to the stone hanging down (would it actually display at that size?). I'd also put one well ahead of three.

Actually we scaled down all of them so that we could post them all on one picture. It (the one voted for the most) will be a bit bigger(not sure how much yet).

cdybeijing wrote:No image is loading for me and I don't see a hidden link anywhere.

http://i54.tinypic.com/10h0pdi.gif try this

I prefer the second one, as it's most readable. In the first, the 'i's almost look like 'j's, and in the last one, the 'i' kind of looks like an 'l'. I know this is going a bit far, but I prefer easy legibility to over-stylizing.

I'd say the first one is the most distinguished. The other two seem far more generic.


If I had to guess at the purpose of the site, based on logo alone, from the first one, I might guess Go, although that may be context-biased. The second I would guess is a magazine about writing with quills and ink, like in the good ol' days. And the third I would have to guess is a site about...road rage?

I find the second one most elegant. The third one looks more modern but there is a problem with it. Without any prejudice, I read it as "Kial" and not "Kiai". Of course if you look at it just a bit more carefully, you see it's kiai, but I am talking about the very first impression.

LocoRon wrote:...And the third I would have to guess is a site about...road rage?

I also prefer the second for elegance, although it seems to miss the Go context somehow...

Like Entropi, I read the third logo as "Kial". The second one reminds me of a logo for a fashion magazine of the 80s. The first one has potential, though the grid/stone part is relatively large (and I agree with Kirk that it needs a white stone somewhere).

Context would help, though my guess is that it will be a webzine.

Thank you everybody for opinions, you've been very helpful. For example, I didn't notice at all that the third one would be read as "kial," though that's probably because I saw it before it was stylized. Now that it's been mentioned it seems fairly obvious.

There's also been a fair amount of votes for the first design, but how many people have the problem of seeing the "i" as a "j" in that design? Kjaj is not the name I'm looking for.

Mivo wrote:The second one reminds me of a logo for a fashion magazine of the 80s.

I missed the 80s, did fashion magazines really steal the Coca Cola logo?

LocoRon wrote:And the third I would have to guess is a site about...road rage?

I'm not really a fan of any of the three. I think you should get more alternatives.

Maybe consider adjusting the lines in the first one so that the "a" is in the right spot to be a white stone on the grid?

I like 1 but I read it as Kjaj.

Voted for 1. All of them are really nice, so I say the following lightly: The second looks like a logo for a supermarket/grocery store (someone said fashion magazine, and I can see that too). The third looks like it is trying to be hip in the 90s--maybe a pop radio station logo.