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How Famous OS Logos Got Started
Shane O'Neill writes "Ronald McDonald and the NBC Peacock may get more TV air time, but today's operating systems have cool logos, too. Google, Apple, Microsoft and the Linux crowd crafted mascots ranging from cute lizards to circles of life. In this slideshow, we look at the origins of the logos and look ahead to their future."
Why red, green, blue and yellow? They are all primary colors, and contrast well to the human eye.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
TFA says the origins of the Red Hat logo are unknown, I always thought it was from the game Civilization?
What about Amiga? Commodore? The Mac 'smile'? MS-DOS?
The article's pretty scant on details even for the logos they did describe. Commodore might not be around any more, but their logo remains iconic.
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Ads, what ads ? Are you watching TV or something ?
Looking at the high-quality version of that logo, it hit me - it looks a lot like one of those old "Simon" electronic games from the 80s (70s?). I know the game had four colors, and the logo three; but the resemblance is uncanny (to my eyes anyway).
Okay, my comment is neither "news for nerds" nor "stuff that matters"; but then neither was the story. :-P
#DeleteChrome
All this time I thought these were the right logos.
Why not discuss the Apple apple logo and how it changed from Newton to rainbow colors to it's current stark white? IMO the most interesting logo story...
Depends on which version of primary colors you use. For computer displays, they are : red, green, and blue. For art (painting), they are : red, yellow, and blue. So you could say all are primary colors.
... the Slashdot logo?
now we need to go OSS in diesel cars
Adblock does nothing to stop someone from paginating their content and inserting ad pages. The content is still interrupted.
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Don't bother with the 'article'. It has no insights into any of the logos and is merely idle speculation on the part of the author for the most part.
You have been warned. . .
Inspirations aside, the Chrome ball is a powerful image on its own. It's no accident that it resembles an eyeball, signifying knowledge and insight.
It's funny, I look at it and see Hal 9000 and skynet bundled together in a deviously delightful, 'Simon Says' resemblance that slips it unwittingly past the fears and vigilance of even the most skeptic late 80's and early 90's children. Signifying knowledge and insight is a simply a crafty way of claiming it is 'All Seeing' without the growing number of web conspiracy theorists sinking their teeth into the new Illuminati search engine overlords. I, for one, feel resistance to welcome them, to don my tinfoil hat and hide under the covers until the shining light of Tom Hank's charming humility and powerful wisdom saves us all from the far-reaching tendrils of our thoroughly beta tested overlords...but....but...the temptation is too great...I
...just....
..have to know....
...more useless factoids....
Google! Here we come with open hearts and willing minds. We shall smight that devious aggressor Bing in thine honor!
All hail our knowledgeable and insightful self-evolved, self-aware search OS Chrome!!!
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Why red, green, blue and yellow? They are all primary colors, and contrast well to the human eye
GREEN is NOT a primary color!!! This is one of my biggest pet peeves. Green is a secondary color along with purple and orange, it is made by combining yellow and blue.
I work in the TV industry and so many people believe green is a primary color because they see "RGB" monitors (ok that was a while ago), or the red green and blue connections on HD TVS, "they must all be primary colors". Argh!
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Win. Someone mod him even more Interesting, and me -1 drunken jackass. Teach me to think during the 30 second comment-preview period.
I like music
Well that was disappointing, I was hoping to see images of each version of the Windows logo to show how it evolved, not just a quick description of it with only the latest logo shown. Then the same for Apple and any other company that has gone through years of growth and change. Basically you could have put all the logos on one page and said, "Hey, look at these!" and you would still come away with the same thing.
I like how the Google chrome logo looks like one of those ominous all seeing eyes of a HAL or Skynet like computer. If any company has the potential to create a skynet, its Google. All hail CHROME!
No mention of the BSD Daemon or Puffy? :(
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Red, green and blue are the "additive" primary colours--the three primary components to making any colour with sources of light (computer displays and televisions generally emit light, hence the use of the RGB colour model for video media). You got that one right.
However two of the primary colours "for art" yo9u mentioned aren't technically correct (but they have an historical basis). The "subtractive" primary colours are magenta, yellow and cyan. This is where you get the "CMYK" cartriges for your printers. The K is for blacK (I guess it isn't called CMYB because blue already took the letter B...).
The additive and subtractive primary colours have complementary characteristics. If you combine the light from each of the additive primaries you get white. If you combine pigment of each of the subtractive primaries you get black. The subtractive and additive primaries are each exact complementary colours of each other (the complement of one primary is the combination of the other two primaries), hence:
Red -> complement is green plus blue = Cyan
Green -> complement is red plus blue = Magenta
Blue -> complement is red plus green = Yellow
That is how we get the acronyms for the primary colours: RGB is ordered by wavelength and CMY represents the complement of RGB.
Anyways, science hadn't established modern colour theory before much of the work done by renaissance painters was completed--colour theory of that time was based upon observation and aesthetics. They saw rainbows, came up with colour wheels, saw how their pigments blended and such and came up with their own set of primary colours. In this case they divided the colour wheel into FOUR parts and picked four primary colours such that each primary had another primary as a complement (it was all about subtractive colour theory too--they didn't know much about the additive primaries of light to have the six primaries we have now). Those colours are roughly RED, YELLOW, GREEN and BLUE (picked as they are the most prominent in rainbow spectrums observed in nature).
The colours of the Microsoft Windows logo are the four "renaissance painter's primaries". Each pair complements the other and are both bold and pleasing to the eye. The poster ianare is basically right, all four colours are pri,aries in one sense or another, though the details weren't quite complete.
I always thought the Windows flag was Microsoft laying claim to your computer, and everything on it...
"... and look ahead to their future." More like a future where this portion of the article graces us with it's existence! For shame, /. , not your finest hour... And here I was practically salivating at the prospect of laying these peepers on a (needless to say, though say it I must:) very highly anticipated OS-logo-of-the-future design mock-up slideshow. (One day, though...)
For now, however, I'm ever so very marginally outraged!
I just wonder if the upcoming chrome OS is going to get he same scrutiny when it 'phones home' as other OS do.
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Depends on which version of primary colors you use
I suppose they could be considered primary colors as far as the visible light spectrum goes:
Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet
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In the Berlin and Kay classification, red, green, yellow and blue would be stage five. (Basic colour terms). Colour terms are fun, if you are in idle mode anyway, check out: Test your own color terms
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the article contains almost no information on most of the icons featured, disappointed at the anti-apple remarks. Soooo much more could have been done with this subject.
There was an unknown error in the submission.
Yes, the Black component can't be called 'B' because of Blue. It gets the 'K' because in printing it's often called the Key colour. (and the added bonus of having that letter in its name)
So many unnecessary pages! and each is so fucking slow to load with all the junk it's filled with. It's much less fun to read a list of things when you have time to tab back to Slashdot and complain in between each item.
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
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Obligatory Dilbert strip on the Lucent logo
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Ya muppet, the K is for Key, couldn't you have googled it first? ;0)
If only Adblock had the features of EditCSS and Repaginate combined to present such pages as a single page without redundancy.
If I didn't have to run Firefox 2.0.0.20 on this wretchedly old Redhat 9 system (due to no libpangocairo and too old version of GTK+) I'd be using Stylish to activate style rules on paged sites to hide everything but the story and Repaginate to concatenate all the pages together.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
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While the retina processes in terms of three colors, the brain actually processes in terms of four colors (or six if you count black and white).