Topic says it all.

Submit logos or comment on the submissions.

P.S. This isn't a serious entry in case you didn't notice.

what, no lense flare?

Anyways, let's keep this to serious entries only ...

Heh heh, I don't even know what that is. I just pulled up the Gimp and scribbled.

The uprights on the W are just begging to be a couple of WiFi aerials...

I just noticed i should have written OpenWrt instead of OpenWRT, if any of this wins i'll fix that

Hi,

Maybe it's too much a stereotype, cause of the penguin.
But at list, we know what we are talking about.

Hope it give a few ideas to otherone

OpenWrt, not OpenWRT...

just for fun after a thelephone call *images stolen from google*

(Last edited by eLod on 21 Oct 2005, 17:05)

You all should stick some antennas to those penguins, and you're set

-w-

well i was told that antennas, penguins and such wont do the trick. Come on devs, give us some hint where to go

Here's my first stab
firststab
a with a W that looks more like antennae
firststab-alt

ok, I'll stop doodling for now and post my final doodle this weekend.

btw, what's the prize? A Marvell version?

add: I've got different fonts at home! Another font based logo (the chars on the right are japanese char set for "WRt". colors could maybe use tuning:
below with abstract chars
and with more normal font

- DL

(Last edited by dl on 27 Oct 2005, 08:38)

I figured I'd let people have a chance to submit whatever before I even attempted to narrow it down. But, since you insist -

Caveats:
- No Linksys WRT54G's .. OpenWrt supports more than just linksys
- Antennas and radio waves are somewhat cliche; everyone has them in their logos.
- All images used in the logo must be free of any restrictions (so no cutting and pasting other artwork without permission)
- Quality .. the logo shouldn't be something the vendor is embarased to place on their box

Hints:
- Try designing the logo using solid colors and keep the number of colors less than 4. Design your logo in a higher resolution than it would normally appear on the screen; this will make your logo look better when printed.
- You don't have to stylize the letters "OpenWrt" you can design some sort of logo graphic instead.

...

Well, since my first draft doesn't meet mbm's requirement ("don't use radio waves" ) I made another draft...

For the sake of completeness - the very first logo:

And the new one(s):

You want perspective? Eat this:

Let me issue some words on why the logo looks that way:

OpenWrt connects people. And that's what the logo stands for. If you look closely you might see the little person
(formed by one dot (the head) and a triangle for the body) repeated 3 times.
But there's another meaning:

OpenWrt offers wireless connection and helps to cover areas for people to get access to the internet.
The former feature reflects in the radiowave-like arcs sent out by the dots (yeah I know, I was supposed
to not use any radio waves but it just fitted in the whole context ) which connect all the three dots in an
invisible way (like WLAN does).
The latter feature appears in the triangle which stands for the area covered.

The logo is usable in greyscale and it's still recognizable at 35 px height.

I hope you like it. Tell me if there's anything to improve!

greetings,
cyphem

PS: I know that openwrt should be written "OpenWrt". I can and will change that later if you think it's necessary.

(edit: converted inline images to hyperlinks to prevent 401 auth errors - mbm)
(edit: changed urls due to changes on my server - cyphem)

(Last edited by cyphem on 18 Nov 2005, 17:47)

A few more font based ones

of course the color and font are variable
above in green
and another

and different font again
above with greek lettering

Any guidelines re color preference?. Warm versus cool - bold versus "subdued"? How about capitalization when using fonts? I've constrained myself to "Open" and  "Wrt" but all caps or lowers offers other possibilities. Also imho a "fontless" logo requires a strong established brand.

addendum, f/g reversed for typical white stock (extra border included to illustrate)
first version
Draw whatever symbolism you like - "think out of the box", "push the limits", Doorsesq "break on thru ...", or just a couple antennaes (or font can be reduced/moved to fit "in the box").
Cleaned up and refined, and only one foot out of the box now.

abstracted a bit more

- DL

(Last edited by dl on 28 Oct 2005, 08:33)

Those japanese symbols don't actually translate to the letters "wrt".

No, I realize that there's no mapping and considered them abstract, but was simply explaining how I happened on them. Hopefully they don't say something nasty

- DL

My vote is here! I like this one.. or maybe the fat Pengin with the writing inside!

(Last edited by /usr/local/fox on 26 Oct 2005, 17:40)

I like the one from /usr/local/fox, too.

But this one is my favourite

(Last edited by Duff on 27 Oct 2005, 07:06)

Since no one else has submitted this, Here it is:

How original and simple you must be thinking. How innovative.  How, I don't know what.

Brilliant!

But on the subject of "mascots", I've never been enthralled with the image of a waddling bird. Perhaps it's because as I kid I had a toy penguin that if placed at the top of a properly inclined ramp would waddle precariously to the bottom where it would invariable fall flat on its face (if it made it that far). Not exactly the image you want to invoke for an operating system.

Smart images/names invoke speed, efficiency, lean/mean, like "cheetah", "jaguar", "lynx", which is why I favor the cheetah entries from josephus perhaps with altered caps/lower and/or font and perhaps a bit more color. Imo there's really no reason to "tie" OpenWrt to Linux via the penguin. OWrt is an animal of its own.

- DL

(Last edited by dl on 27 Oct 2005, 09:48)

With all due respect I'll take the opposite stand that Linux is a larger part of OpenWRT than any other distro (percentage wise). I like Tux.

It's not mine it's actually rompi submission. I would like to see him do a mock up of what the writing would look like inside the Tux with the "OpenWrt" case correction noted before..

/usr/local/fox

Suggestions:

When logo is selected, it is going to be used in web-based interfaces for OpenWrt. Any logo would be fine as long as it is smal (file-size-wise) yet readable without noticeable artifacts. Please keep it in mind. E.g., I removed cool background picture from webui, because it was 3k after compression.

Additionally it would be nice, if the final logo can be used in different sizes, including small suitable for badges. Typically it rules out fine features, which present a problem for compression and scaling.

without even trying hard (just resized png from prior post), 1693 bytes

Getting rid of the two/tone green (due to blending mode) should make even smaller file.
ps: a little cropping and pixel-pushing gets it to 1518 bytes and also cleans up. Further work could be done. Note that trimming off the white bg doesn't display well here with grey bg.

and going back to orig and doing it right (no pixel-pushing), but with transparent bg, we're down to 1330 bytes although not quite as clean as I'd like

One advantage of basing on fonts is that any size can quickly be generated without resizing artifacts or interpolation fuzzies. I could give you a poster sized or even building sized image in a few minutes. And given proper specs (fonts, colors) and match sample, anyone with the proper fonts and a graphics pgm could quickly generate the logo, make specialized versions with addt'l text, different non-transparent bg, etc., without having original graphics. I'm not sure the example logo above is the one to use, but font based is very flexible.

- DL

(Last edited by dl on 28 Oct 2005, 06:18)