Intype Development Blog: In-logo-type

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

In-logo-type

Yesterday, I needed to relax, so I've designed logotype for Intype, that is to be final. What do you think about it?

30 Comments:

SilverTab said...

Looking good!

Clean and simple! I like it :)

8:43 AM

Stefan Fidanov said...

It's great!
I like it :)

11:16 AM

Chris B said...

Nice play on the name intype with the "cut out" styling on the text, even though it's not normally a look I go for

The logo works very well, new media-ish without being *too* web2.0-ish

good to take break from the coding for a bit I bet! :0)

12:51 PM

halogenandtoast said...

I like it, but as a "logo" I don't think it needs text. With the text, it's more of a website banner.

1:43 PM

mat3u said...

Nice!

2:54 PM

Louis said...

To be honest, it seems a bit ... boring.

The logo doesn't say anything about the product. The logo doesn't relate much to InType either.

Consider other logos: Rails itself, TextMate, of course, Eclipse, probably the most popular editor outside of Visual Studio, and Java, of all things!

But of course - the works great for an alpha or a beta, so don't let it stop you from releasing that alpha we're all eagerly awaiting. But I wouldn't call it "final" ;)

8:34 PM

Eyeless Pirate said...

Looks kinda nice. But could you please show it without all the effects and colors, in various sizes, on dark and light background? Because, as far as I know, that's the only way to say if given logotype works well.

10:14 PM

Martin Cohen said...

Thank you all, guys.

louis: I wanted something very simple, geometric, without need of special effects. TextMate, Eclipse and Rails are all complicated. I'm happy to have it very simple, working in sizes starting from 16x16, with or without colors or effects.

eyeless pirate: Yes, I'll upload full definition, so you can see it's job. ;)

1:09 AM

webmatze said...

I like it. And you can read it as an 'i' with the dot on it.

9:07 AM

octopuss said...

I see that you use same kind of relaxation as me :).
The logo itself is nice, but like louis said without the text intype, it is hard to guess the "product"

9:21 AM

Anonymous said...

It looks good , some like Apple Computer's logo. :)

2:35 AM

Branstrom said...

I kind of like it. What I don't like is the asymmetry - the text is smaller than the logo, which doesn't look great.

I am personally more happy with my little remake, the one I made based on your old logo. Here it is again, so everyone can see.

4:25 AM

Anonymous said...

"comming soon" should be "coming soon"

1:00 PM

Anonymous said...

I've to agree with Louis :(

4:01 PM

Anonymous said...

louis and anonymous: hint for you:

http://www.answersquad.com/collateral/icon-images/generic-icon.jpg

1:20 AM

Dominik Balogh said...

My approach would be something like this:

http://dominikbalogh.eu/storage/ntype_preview.png

1:49 AM

Anonymous said...

My opinion - Just the green i isn't really an outstanding symbol. Using a capital T inside the logo would make it more distinguishable. As it allways is used in every program as -text- insertion symbol.

Greets, Maxus

3:28 AM

Kalle said...

I really like it. I'm looking forward to Intype!

4:19 AM

Anonymous said...

Pretty cool logo - frankly, textpad with its pathetic (sorry) logo, is one of the best editor on Windows, so logo is the least worry!!

Make intype closed source and paid, at least at first, so you can earn loads of $ and quit your job, develop it more and make us all happy. It's hard to be on Windows after seeing TextMates - I hope the guy doesn't turn around and sue you though.

Best of luck, can't wait for intype

5:47 PM

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