Hoss, thanks for comprehensive history tour.
As for the sun motive I like it and think it is a strong one (strong enough to be the only leading motive in the logo) but I didn't want to insist on it without knowing that the community calls for it (especially I like to idea that the logo or favicon should evoke the feeling that you are looking into the sun). As for the favicon debate I think that it is a bit overstated (IMHO). Favicon is important but I don't think that whole logo must be done in a such way that it can be directly scaled down to favicon size without significant visual appearance attractivity loss. For example Yahoo! uses just Y! for favicon, Google uses g (G formerly) and Solr uses just gradient box (which is a nice idea I think). So for me the *direct compatibility* of a new logo with favicon is not critical as long as that are other options for favicon provided. I already have some ideas about Solr logo and I will try to put drafts down so that response/critics can be collected. Also it would be interesting if this could provoke other designers for collaboration (aren't we talking about open source project? :-) Regards, Lukas On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > : I would like to give it a shot. Are there any solr logo success > : criteria/requirements? Any hints or suggestions from community is > welcomed. > : Just close your eyes, start dreaming and send my couple of words about > what > : you see... I am all ears. > > Other people who care more about the logo have already given lots of good > feedback on things that should be kept in mind ... the only one i would > question is that the logo need to look good at favicon sizes ... that > tends to be really limiting. > > Even if the primary logo doesn't look good at favicon sizes (or in B&W) > the important thing is that a cohesive "brand" can be established arround > a logo (take for instance the apache feather with is long and horizontal, > but can be rotated to fit diagnoally in a square favicon, or the existing > Solr favicon which has thesame color palate as the Solr Logo and evokes > the idea that you are looking into the sun). What a "Powered By" logo > would look like is also something to keep in mind. > > : Also I found that the wiki mentions some > : genesis< > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/FAQ#head-6d74c2bb4171b0908a4695cbb24acd368a29dc06 > >of > : Solar/Solr technology but still I don't understand if the relation to > : sun > : is intentional or coincidence. > > A little of both. > > As yonik mentioned once upon a time... > http://markmail.org/message/sgxaz5nv5mapzw34 ...CNET had an > interal product called "ATOMICS" which stood for "Apache TO MySQL In CNET > Search" (it was a made up acronym to support the fact that people wanted > to be able to say apps that used it were "Atomic powered"). When it was > decided that there should be a Lucene based alternative, someone got the > idea that it should be named "SOLAR" so you could have "Solar Powered" > applications instead of using "ATOMICS" (CNET has a long history of puns > in internal product/project acronyms) and it was backronymed to be > "Searching On Lucene And Resin". > > When it cam time to open source "SOLAR" we had to change the name: 1) we > couldn't have an acronym with "Resin" in it because it's a commercial > product (and besides, Solr works just find with any servlet container); > 2) there was some legal issue with the word "Solar" ... i don't remember > exactly what, it might have been an existing trademark. I suggested we > just drop the "A" and make the R stand for Replication (or maybe someone > else had already suggested "Solr" and I just suggested what the R could be > for -- i don't remember). Ultimately "Solr" was the final decision, > mainly because it was short, passed legal approval, and allowed us to keep > pronouncing it the same way in conversation -- but we droped the > kludgy acronym. > > So yes: the relation tothe sun was intentional, but not for any good > reason. Personally, I've always had a fondness for saying something is > "Solr Powered" when people ask ... so I do think it would be nice to > maintain a Sun motif. > > > -Hoss > > -- http://blog.lukas-vlcek.com/
