Heres a site I use for colour inspiration, grab the hex codes from palettes that work already.

http://www.colourlovers.com/palettes

Honestly, those colours look harsh, the link colour is just about green on my screen, its not gold. The yellow is too bright as well. Don't take offense, you've asked for feedback.

The colours are harsh and don't work i'm afraid. The gold colour is nearly green on my screen.

Great discussion. I'm in this arena too, and I'm afraid I cringe when seeing the marketing and branding skills been shown by some of these altcoins. I mean, for the sake of a few hundred dollars to launch a decent brand at the start, people are launching the coins with clipart logos, without securing the correct social media profiles, and the .com domains.

All you are doing is leaving a bad impression on people and looking rank amateur. We are talking simple fixes here, even credible Fiverr designers would come up with better logos.

If you launch a coin, grab the .com for protection, the .org as that seems to be the domain most launch on. Maybe even grab specific domains that extend the coin further, so a forum, wiki or whatever. Find a marketing and design team to put together some ideas. Even on a budget this is achievable. Register all the Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest URLs etc so when it blows up, you have all the relevant profiles for people to follow. Keep the same theme throughout all the socials, so if you use CamelCase then use that on all that accept it. Example:

AltCoin.com
AltCoin.org
AltCoinTalk.org

facebook.com/AltCoin
twitter.com/AltCoin
youtube.com/AltCoin
pinterest.com/AltCoin

There's nothing worse than realizing you have a good name and idea, to then go register the Twitter account to find its been taken by a troll who read your [ANN] thread.

Create and protect your brand before launch, it'll be worth it.

Interesting thread, thanks for the link.

I work in branding and marketing in my business. I advise clients on matters like this, so take it or leave it, I only mean well and want whats best for the coin as I have a few. The Bitcoin logo works at any size, its modern, easily reproduced in any colour and it sticks in the memory. The logo above, despite it been a nice design at a large scale, just doesn't work at any other size. Try create a 16px x 16px icon, or a 48px x 48px icon from it? Why the need for 20 colours? The best logos are the most simplest ones. These are the logos that stick long in the memory, not the over engineered ones.

I'm not into knocking work because I can see the effort that everyone is putting in, so apologies if it comes over like that, I'm just provoking debate. I just want it to represent the generation that its aimed for. The Web2.0 generation. Why do the Facebook, Twitter and new Google logos look so good? Clean designs and nice simple colours. Scalable be design, you could create a billboard from them or stick them on a postage stamp, they work. The BitCoin logo represents the modern generation, the ones who will use the coins.

Heres what I mean, one and two colours. Far from showing no effort, they stick in the mind which is the idea of a good logo.

Every subreddit that I have seen on Reddit has the same name as the coin. This helps people recognize the coins subreddit, and when the coin is typed into Google, usually the subreddit is somewhere near the top as its in the URL. You have gone against the norm and created the subreddit using the slogan name which means nothing to joe public. I would change it asap for marketing purposes. 'Time is money' could mean anything at first glance which isnt what you want.

It needs to be reddit.com/r/clockcoin to be consistent with the rest of the alts.

reddit.com/r/bitcoin
reddit.com/r/litecoin
reddit.com/r/grandcoin
reddit.com/r/megacoin
reddit.com/r/lottocoin
reddit.com/r/clockcoin

I'm sorry to be going against the grain, but I hope this isnt the final design. Its far too busy and colourful. I've reduced it to an 50px icon size (wallet etc) and as you can see, you lose all the detail. Most logos are far simpler such as Pepsi, McDonalds and BitCoin. These are scalable and easily reproduced. This isn't a nice modern logo for the Web2.0 generation imo.

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Whereas the Bitcoin logo is easily identifiable at any size..

I purchased some ClockCoins from this seller (0.018 btc) and they were prompt, polite, and we exchanged coins within a couple of minutes. Recommended seller on this evidence. Thanks

Holy smokes Batman! I hope there's a bounty for a nice logo!

Indeed, I like the 2nd logo. However, they are on a flat coin and not tilted which was my main gripe. The web2.0 for the logo and then the logo put onto a coin works for me, the branding is the same and the shape makes the logo recognizable. There is no logo for LOT like in the above examples, the coin IS the logo which is maybe where its lacking. The 2nd quark logo above stands in its own right, without it been put onto a coin. It can be reproduced in every color and its still recognizable as that coins logo. LOT doesn't have that yet.

No need to apologize, its all subjective, but I'm quite into branding. The logo needs to be easily reproduced across other mediums, scalable and easy on the eye. Again I'll use the sticker example. A bitcoin logo sticker, would be cut from one piece of orange vinyl and would be cheap enough to do, whereas the Netcoin logo would probably have to be printed onto vinyl due to the overcomplicated design and colour scheme. I'm not saying stickers should make or break a coin design, but the logo needs to easily reproduced in the future, be it in print, web or on a physical object such as those neon 'We Accept BitCoin' lights I've seen. Just something to consider.

That's all well and good, but thats more work and leads to brand confusion. Why have two types of logo, when a flat version is all you need. The Netcoin logo is sht btw. I prefer a web2.0 type of look, much like the original BitCoin logo. This is easily reproduced in vinyl stickers, stitching on T-Shirts etc etc. Where as the Netcoin logo is a complicated mess, as soon as its reduced to say a 50 x 50px gif, the wording is unreadable and the colours bleed.

Any coin which isn't a flat image doesn't work for me. Someone just mentioned Coinwarz, and there will be many other instances that will require the coin logo once crypto is common place.

It will look odd in comparison to the rest.  

Here they are all flat - http://wheretomine.com/

Same here - http://coinmarketcap.com

And this was just mentioned - http://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency

Yes there are a few 3d renders (BitBar, Spots etc) but 98% are just nice flat 2d designs, especially the coins.

This design as a flat coin and we might have a winner.

You have chosen a poor captcha provider. I have entered the correct code over 10 times on 2 different browsers, and it still won't accept it. I suggest you replace it with reCAPTCHA.

http://www.google.com/recaptcha

Its hard to say long term. I built my miners not just for the coins, but for the fun of it too. I love computers. When coins are launched, they are not on an exchange so its hard to buy unless you can find private sales. So mining gives you a head start. Mining is also how transactions are confirmed so they are crucial to the whole thing, if you believe in the concept, build a rig and contribute some hashes. If it all goes to sht, you can always build a gaming rig from it all or sell it off at maybe 50% of what you paid.

Happy New Year OP

Many thanks

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Cut and paste? thats never been a vector, the middles all blurred.

I'm on my laptop atm, so my thumbs are fine I browse a lot on my phone when I'm out and about, or in bed and I cant sleep. Always connected.. lol

$0.30 per kw! That seems steep. I'm at $0.24 and my electric bills are the stuff of nightmares.

If you had a reason then that's fair enough. I'm a frequent user of forums, and people re-quoting long posts and pictures a 1000 times in a thread is a pet hate of mine. Especially if you're browsing on phone, it makes your thumbs ache!

Anyway, as you were MrDemon..