Re: Logo for GNOME Accessibility

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2008, at 14:45, Willie Walker wrote:
>
> > Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Willie!
> > > Sorry that it took a while before you got any response.
> > > Did this for the ATK section on the new gtk.org website:
> > > http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/a11y.png
> > > http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/a11y.svg
> > >
> > > cc:ing tango-artists in the hope of more ideas.
> >
> > Neat!  I'm going to be seeing some a11y folks today and will pass this
> > by them.  It matches various other icons in the space and is very 
> > simple.
>
> Don't wish to sound too critical here, but to me, this doesn't so much 
> say "GNOME accessibility logo", as "identical to Apple's accessibility 
> logo, but without the circle round it":
>
> http://www.apple.com/accessibility/
>
> No, I have no idea what a more GNOME-ified accessibility logo would 
> look like, but it sure would be nice to have one :)
Hi Calum.
Yeah, you´re right, it looks too much like their logo. I guess they took 
the idea from our old friend Leonardo as well :). [1]
Perhaps it would be interesting to do something on the theme of the 
Vitruvian Man, but in another style?
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man
- Andreas