Make a logo for urllib3

[shazow]

@sethmlarson had a cute idea: ur//ib3, kinda inspired by Mozilla's moz://a.

Would be fun to make stickers for future PyCons and whatnot.

Maybe someone is inspired to take a shot at this?

Or maybe we can convince a designer of one of the corporate sponsors to take a stab at it? :D

[sethmlarson]

I know @theacodes mentioned asking the individual who created her logos and art. :)

[theacodes]

She'd be a great choice if we want a more illustrated logo (like Nox), but a simple typography-based logo would be great as well. I have a graphic designer that could handle that.

[alexwlchan]

Okay, so with the disclaimer that my design training comes from the school of MS Paint, I had a quick go at mocking something up this morning:

The font is Monaco which I don’t think you can license? I think Apple owns it? So you’d have to draw your own letters. But it gives you the idea. (I did tweak the three to have a pointy top rather than a curly top.)

I played with a couple of variants on the slashes – first a solid black, but that’s quite imposing, so I tried doing it in outline – with the thicker weight I kind of dig it? I also poked at putting other colours in the slash because who doesn't want rainbow-pride/trans-pride variants of their logo, right? :D

[alexwlchan]

(What if you tilted the “i” to match the slashes?)

[shazow]

@alexwlchan Cute! Thank you for sharing. :) The rainbow is a great idea.

[sigmavirus24]

I'm worried about the possibility of infringing on the moz://a logo by doing this. I'd be surprised if that isn't trademarked and the semblance would be considered too close for comfort. Does anyone else share those reservations? Could we perhaps draw inspiration without being so close to their logo?

[pquentin]

It's also close to the curl logo: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/05/27/a-new-curl-logo/

[sethmlarson]

I'll have to investigate whether the stylized L's are covered. This is something we talked about :)

[alexwlchan]

An idea I didn’t sketch out this morning: URLs are often seen in a browser address bar. So set it in a thing that looks like that?

[sigmavirus24]

I'll have to investigate whether the stylized L's are covered. This is something we talked about :)

When you say "This is something we talked about" who is the "we"? Have you already talked to Mozilla about this? If they didn't object already and I'm just bringing us back to a prior point, let me know. I just know that organizations need to police trademark related things strictly in order to keep them (see also the PSF Trademark WG) and I don't like creating busy work for people when that can be avoided. (Nor do I want us to update the logo and then have to immediately change it. Plus it can be scary to be on the receiving end of a Trademark legal letter)

[sethmlarson]

Sorry for being vague, I meant @shazow @theacodes and I as "we", I haven't spoken to Mozilla or curl.

[sigmavirus24]

Feel free to tell me to bugger off, too. :)

[sethmlarson]

Oh no, if anything I'll be begging you to stay. :)