Re: LilyPond logo?

Hi All,

@ Johan: I fully agree. Done.

@ Malte: OK copied.

@ Simon: Yes I had the same feeling but I'm stuck there, still trying to find something much better.

@ Graham: Ok, good idea but I not fully agree with the 'botany' reason (any direct link between an apple and a computer ?)

Tests attached.

Cheers,

Pierre

2016-08-06 18:25 GMT+02:00 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

Why the emphasis on water flowers in the logo? The important part
of LilyPond is the beautifully-engraved sheet music, not botany.

I think it would be a nicer approach to having something
recognizably "sheet music" in the logo. For example, simply "Lp",
with the "p" being in the normal dynamic font, and the "L" being
some kind of fancy cursive thing. That way, musicians would
instantly recognize the logo as having to do with sheet music.

On a related note, I highly recommend potrace, which does a
beautiful job of changing bitmaps into vector graphics. To my
untrained eye, the output looks to be professionally drawn (due to
the gradual changes in line width):
http://potrace.sourceforge.net/samples.html

I also think it would be interesting to play with lilypond's text
markup commands. There's a lot of neat things that can be done
with alignment, rotation, and the graphical text markup -- and
again, if the logo is comprised of elements of musical notation,
it will be much more recognizable as a logo for something to do
with sheet music.

Cheers,
- Graham Percival

On Sat, Aug 06, 2016 at 05:11:26PM +0200, Pierre Perol-Schneider wrote:
> Plus pdf
>
> 2016-08-06 17:10 GMT+02:00 Pierre Perol-Schneider
> <[1]pierre.schneider.paris@gmail.com>:
>
> Logo test enclosed.
> Cheers,
> Pierre
>
> 2016-08-06 15:32 GMT+02:00 Carl Sorensen <[2]address@hidden>:
>
> On 8/5/16 11:28 AM, "Simon Albrecht" <[3]address@hidden>

> wrote:
> >Am 05.08.2016 um 15:50 schrieb Mark Knoop:
> > > At 14:40 on 05 Aug 2016, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > >> From: Andrew Bernard
> > >>> I also note that there does not seem to be consistency as to
> whether
> > >>> lilypond is
> > >>> ŒLilypond¹ or ŒLilyPond¹ or ŒLily Pond¹ or Œlilypond¹. That at
> least
> > >>> needs to be straightened out.
> > >> LilyPond. Check the front page of the website.
> > > $ git grep LilyPond Documentation/ | wc -l
> > > 11154
> > > $ git grep Lilypond Documentation/ | wc -l
> > > 329
> > > $ git grep "Lily Pond" Documentation/ | wc -l
> > > 2
> >
> > I¹m sure a patch would be welcome :-) Not being familiar with sed,
> I
> > won¹t make one myselfŠ
> A patch for the two occurrences of "Lily Pond" has been created.
>
> Thanks,
> Carl
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From:	Pierre Perol-Schneider
Subject:	Re: LilyPond logo?
Date:	Sat, 6 Aug 2016 19:20:16 +0200