BLUA stands for Bangladesh Linux Users Alliance, a LUG formed in 2002 primarily to promote the use of GNU/Linux in the country. We’ve come a long way, and today we officially represent Ubuntu and Fedora in Bangladesh as well as working as the local affiliate of Creative Commons.
We’ve started working on to give a complete face-lift to our website, and as a part of it we’ve come up with a new logo for our organisation. Since this blog post will get aggregated on Planet Ubuntu and Planet Fedora, I’d like to take this opportunity to get feedbacks about the logo from all of you. There are some brilliant graphic designers in our community and I’ll sure with all of your inputs we can improve the logo! Please let me know what you honestly think about it, we’ll take all your comments and suggestions in account.
The logo was created by Adnan Quaium using Inkscape, and the font used comes with a “free for commercial use” license.
I love the logo itself. However, to my eyes, the mix of red and green in the circle around Tux is a bit blurry. Maybe a more contrasting color could be chosen (rather than red, or a different shade of red) to make things a bit more clear? Then again, this could also just be my screen or it might also not be such a big deal when viewing the logo on a printed surface. Other than that though, I really like the design – great job on it.
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I love the logo as well! 😀
Thanks Atallcostsky and Aaron!
The reason for using red and green as the primary colours on the logo is our national flag, which consists of green and red.
The logo is pretty and shiny and you will have no problems with using it online, but if at some point you will want it printed on T-shirts then some problems will arise: the number of colors will make it expensive (if you want *quality* printing), the gradients will not be visible much, the drop-shadow will be gone and the small details will be problematic.
I agree with nicu 🙂
gradients are acceptable but difficult to implement on printed surface (specially on tshirt). shadow will look good only on white/light color tshirt fabric
the font below looks awful, change it
looks nice.
But the linux logo and the green color.
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Thank you all for the comments and suggestions. 🙂