[TIP] logo drafts for tox! (comments welcome)

[Oliver Bestwalter]

ok, i know ... an F is actually a failed test, but an X is not much better
- it's the association it creates in me.

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 16:57 Oliver Bestwalter <oliver at bestwalter.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would really want to to like 23, but it feels wrong to me. The sign
> creates an association that it is a way towards something and then the name
> tox starts to read like "to X" to me , but I don't want to go to X, because
> X is a failed test. If anything I want to go from X to . (or 'o' as short
> for 'ok' or a really, really big dot). If tox was called "txo" that would
> work, because then we could have a red X - the failing test - and then a
> green circle (o, dot, whatever). But like this the direction is wrong and
> it does not help to make the X green. An X is a failed test- a green X is
> just ... weird to me.
>
> I like the idea of the typographically really heavy suggestions later on
> (but without those colored circles in them, they don't really do it for
> me). There is an idea of solidity behind it, that I can really get on board
> with. Like: tox is this really solid tool, that helps you get your testing
> and CI automation out of the way. Like a big trusty hammer. If Thor would
> be a developer - he would use it. He would definitely use it like his
> trusted Mjölnir to smash all the bugs in the programs ... or something like
> that. A double headed hammer like that can double as a T from tox.
> Something like this:
> https://blogdekiki.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/ciocan-2.jpg
>
> So maybe the word "tox" in a really simple but very, very heavy font with
> a mjölnir like hammer above it?
>
> Cheers,
> Oliver
>
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 at 15:01 Nicolas Mendoza <niccolasmendoza at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,  I like 23.
>>
>> +1 #23.
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:52 AM, holger krekel <holger at merlinux.eu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Oliver, Florian and me are discussing with a designer (Gero)
>>> about the upcoming "tox" logo.  find attached the latest round
>>> of drafts.  Anything you like or criticise in particular?
>>>
>>> best,
>>> holger
>>>
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