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FreeBSD Logo Contest Winner Announced

Posted by Zonk on from the cute-little-horned-spheroid dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "Earlier this year, the FreeBSD people announced a competition to design a new logo. Welp, the winner has been announced, and you can check out the new logo. Congratulations to Anton K. Gural on the spiffy work!"

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  1. hideous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Personally I hate "shaded" or three-dimensional logos. They quickly become tiresome. This logo will look cheap and dated 5 years from now, I guarantee it. I would prefer a more "timeless" logo, closer to monochromatic, two-dimensional. Something that could be sketched with a pen, yet be completely unique and recognizable.

    I feel this logo has the most meaning only to those familiar with the previous logo (the beastie). A random person on the street (or in the boardroom) will not have a clue. And that's not good. For instance, why is the "horned ball" turned slightly? Just to show off perspective? To emulate the perspective of the previous logo? Why not just show the logo head-on, with symmetrical horns? Look at the black and white version. It looks like a drawing from a geometry textbook. A logo should be as minimal and simple as the font used to write the letters next to it.

    I do like the font though. If the word FreeBSD were larger, and the logo smaller, I think it would look better, at least at the example I'm looking at.

    Oh well. Anything is better than than the beastie from a corporate point of view, although this new one is utterly plastic and lifeless.

  2. How will she dress up as this new logo !? by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Will Ceren dress up like a ball now ?

    Oh ya