NumPy logo refresh

[rgommers]

Both @InessaPawson and @shoyer suggested a refresh of the NumPy logo recently. Summer gave that a go, tweaking the colors for more contrast:

Unfortunately she could not keep the logo in SVG. It hasn't been touched in a decade, and was made with some unknown tool that didn't align well with her tools. Does anyone remember who made the current logo, and how?

[shoyer]

It's OK if it's no longer SVG, but it would be nice to have a vectorized image of some sort, e.g., for printing at large scale.

The original commit (numpy/numpy@c5b2f31) was by @cournape, and suggests that it was made with Adobe Illustrator: "Generator: Adobe Illustrator 12.0.1, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 51448"

[stefanv]

David says this could have been made by @tvaught.

[charris]

The green-blue faces look like they could use a bit more contrast, but looks good.

[charris]

David says this could have been made by @tvaught.

The logos at the top of scipy.org were mostly (all?) made by Travis Vaught. The image of the bug took a lot of work.

[eric-wieser]

An only-slightly-serious suggestion - export svg from an iteration of matplotlib's version of our logo https://matplotlib.org/3.1.1/gallery/mplot3d/voxels_numpy_logo.html

[rougier]

My 2 cents here but it might be good to reduce (or remove) the transparency that makes it difficult to read the logo and maybe change perspective a bit. Something like:

[eric-wieser]

Not sure about the angle or removal of the N, but I do think the transparency looks a little messy in the top image (and the current logo). The hard border you added might be a nice analogy for the "nd container of elements" model that numpy has, and also make it a little more suited to things like stickers.

[jni]

At scikit-image, we are looking to make a hexagonal sticker in the vein of the TidyR ecosystem and others, to make tiling a laptop easier. My only reservation with @rougier's suggestion is that it looks very similar to some top scikit-image logo proposals. =P

[joeharr4]

While I'm not one to be too opinionated about logos, so long as they look nice, I prefer logos that contain at least some text indicating what project they're from! The S in the original scipy logo, the N in this one, or even the full name, as it's quite short. While we all use these projects daily and can keep the logos straight, it's just cubes and squiggles to most people who look at our laptop lids and water bottles. Ideally, a logo attracts the eye and directs the mind to your product. All we're doing here is attracting the eye. We could put the letters of "NumPy" in the blocks, put it below (a la Citgo), etc. I just think we serve the project better with a logo that tells people what it's for.

Also, just a nit, in Summer's logo, the darker orange panel in one of the faces is inconsistent with the others. It's supposed to be the right face of the left-neighboring block, not the left face of the containing block. I'm referring to the leftmost block with any dark-orange shading.

--jh--

[philhodge]

That looks very nice. Would it be possible to make the lines along the edges of the cubes converge to points at finite distances, i.e. to give it some perspective? I think that would improve it considerably.

[seberg]

I am +1 for being a bit more liberal about changing the logo (but it is not a quick task...). Another nice thing is that it can be made black and white (in other words, if someone spends some real time, I doubt there is much need for the old SVG file). Getting rid of the transparency seems indeed a good idea to make it clearer, although I do not know if the side/face contrast is currently high enough (at least without additional edges).
The N is a big part of the current logo I guess, OTOH, keeping at 4x4 for the N does make it a lot more crowded maybe.

[rougier]

Here is another try:

[rougier]

And a slightly different one:

[rgommers]

Great to see there's interest in a larger redesign. @rougier very nice! Like the cubes. Not sure about a web link in the logo, that's unusual - why not just "NumPy" or "NUMPY"?

Colored variations on that from Summer: