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I like the look.  You guys did some slick work here.  I read your reasons for making a new logo.  Can you elaborate specifically on the other logos and which of your design premises they each break?

both can live.
IMO.

Sure, but I bet one symbol will emerge eventually. It just makes sense to use the most recognized symbol in your stuff which makes it more used and thus more recognized until one is the "actual" symbol and one is at best, the "old" symbol. Just a feeling about what will happen, not a should or an ought.

not exactly.
both symbols can evemrge/advance in different areas/purposes, like doen with others symbols/icons.
for example, you symbol more suitable for use in public area, ie as street mark/poster, while 1st variant is more suitable for docflow usage/mass-media ads.
or vice versa.
where is it actually matter is UTF table proposed change/update.

In your website you say that you don't like the vertical line, because the dollar sign has one. There are many more currency symbols that have this vertical line to convey stability. So keep the vertical line!

North America has vertical lines.

$

Europe has horizontal.

€

If that's the reasoning I'm digging it. Bitcoin(s) not bitcoin?

i like golden yellow better :p

I am personally not so fond of the current gold color, in my book it associates with casinos, get-rich-quick schemes and other scammy avenues.

This proposed color scheme is more professional and bank-like.

Ugh, no. I don't think bitcoins need a symbol at all, but if we must have one the thai baht symbol is much better than this.

Ok, professional's good. But bank-like? I don't want that either.

If we want Bitcoin to succeed, don't you think that the air of legitimacy a "bank like" currency symbol gives us is an asset?  If not bank-like, what kind of feel would you want it to have?

Wavering back and forth between Ƀ and β, but either way, I really like bitboy's graphics. So heres bitboy's logo with Ƀ:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23228112/%C9%83.png

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23228112/%C9%83rotated.png
Maybe he will eventually become active on the forums once again, and remake it better than I can.

https://i.imgur.com/8QBS7.png

I thought the box was a running joke until I realised the joke was on me :D

I really gotta do something about my Windows fonts.

Solved?

The double-vertical-line B, like in your avatar BW actually reminds me too much of the cartoon "Richie Rich".

Exactly, the sound I hear in my brain when I see it is "cha-ching!"

http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/1/btch.png (http://img846.imageshack.us/i/btch.png/)


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About the colors:
We avoided to dwell too much on the colors to avoid "It's ugly, "but here's our rationale:
We chose the colors primarily by deduction, avoiding the red because too touts and already present in the sidebars of websites (among others).
The green was easily associated with the dollar in its dark versions, and too low versions in clear or apple. Other colors or pose problems of legibility in small sizes (badge, favicon, etc.). semiological or inconsistencies.
The orange is already well integrated in the versions of Bitcoin existing logo and we find the right color choices, reflecting a positive and non-frozen and naturally associated with the coin and exchange. The gray symbolize a technical, inspirational software security. In addition they activate the orange without distorting it and fit well in heterogeneous designs that we can not control. The accompanying black is a black Ƀ typographical seemed logical to sit the character and ensure its legibility. In this is not personal choice but a deduction based on the existing Bitcoin, the graphical environment and competitors.

@mmdough: From another post (http://linuxfr.org/users/ecogex/journaux/alternative-au-logo-bitcoin) in french, translated by google :


Sorry for the translation, time is missing today.