Re: [Jflex-devel] Ideas for a new logo

[Régis D. <reg...@gm...>]

Sure, throw some sketches!

And I can understand why a brand needs to protect itself. I guess writing
"for Java TM" is legitimate use.

Gerwin Klein <ge...@do...> schrieb am Do., 5. Dez. 2019, 12:11:

> Right, sorry for not replying back then, it was one of those times with
> just too much going on.
>
> The current logo is clean ; but minimalist and a bit sad with the grey
>> colour.
>>
>
> Minimalist is a good thing :-), at least that is what I was going for. I
> will concede that it is a bit grey/dark.
>
> From the new suggestions, I’m happy to experiment with a bit more colour.
>
> There is one issue with most of them, though: I have strongly avoided the
> use of the word Java in the name and logo of JFlex. I don’t know if Oracle
> is as aggressive as Sun was, but JLex used to be called JavaLex for a short
> time and had to rename under threat of trademark litigation. JLex was by
> far not the only project that was affected. To be fair, trademarks have to
> be defended, otherwise you lose them, so I don’t know how much leeway Sun
> really had there.
>
> In any case, I’d still like to avoid it int the logo, esp since it can be
> read as part of the name (which would be trademark relevant) as opposed to
> referring to the language in a normal sentence (which is why the tag line
> should be fine).
>
> Thinking of new logo ideas, I recently played around with a more Japanese
> brush-stroke like thing. I’ll send it tomorrow if I can find it. It might
> still be too monochrome for your taste, but I wanted to at least throw it
> into the discussion.
>
> Cheers,
> Gerwin
>
> On 5 Dec 2019, at 10:21, Régis Décamps <re...@de...> wrote:
>
> Bump before an upcoming 1.8
>
> Le ven. 5 oct. 2018 à 20:21, Régis Décamps <re...@de...> a écrit :
>
>> Hello Gerwin, hello all,
>>
>> The current logo is clean ; but minimalist and a bit sad with the grey
>> colour.
>>
>> Please find a few explorations for a new logo
>> <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vu7irmVJgQTd5yldR7cRQdRrsmnSOOIdlYRpcR05tbA>
>> ; let me know what you think!
>>
>>
>> --
>> Régis
>>
>> <JFlex logo ideas (5).png>
>> <JFlex logo ideas (4).png>
>> <JFlex logo ideas (3).png>
>> <JFlex logo ideas (2).png>
>> <JFlex logo ideas (1).png>
>> <JFlex logo ideas.png>
>>
>
>
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> Régis Décamps
>
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