Should Bitcoin's logo color be gold, and not orange?

[ajareselde]

We would have that company or man (or woman. Please don't be sexist. We have just as much to contribute to this game as much as men do) would probably benefit from investing in this currency if they knew about it, and were enticed into it with the right appearance. If I were a rich wealthy person that wanted to get even more rich, I would overlook a currency with a logo that looks like money designed in a video game. Using a serious color is just what we need. That and obvious larger scales of advertisement but we cannot spend millions of dollars to be placed on a platform for the 7 billion people watching us for them to just ignore our wonderful currency just because we wore orange, and not gold.

It is shallow, but looks do matter

HA! Do you know what events predetermined you even being here, or anyone else for that matter ? It wasn't a shiny logo, or a catchy phraze; it was a service that people wanted/needed.
To those people that pushed bitcoin into state of movement,hype and awareness, things like icon,logo and similar might have been a di*k (or a tw*t, not to be sexist) they wouldn't break a sweat over it.

You can set up a site and place whatever image you want for bitcoin, use sparkling efect,polka dots.. No one is stopping you. After all, bitcoin's main point is decentralization, everyone's vote counts.
Whatever sails your boat, but imho, it's not the picture that counts.

You'd be surprised how many wealthy people are very very shallow. Question: how did you manage to mess up the quoting?

I fixed it soon after ?! But anyways if you want to know, i spilled my vaping liquid all over my keyboard so it was a bit hard to focus on parts of quotes in editing, but i have the slickest keyboard
on forum now 

Oh don't worry. I'm embroidering the symbol in gold on my scarf as we speak.

Heh, now even i want to see it when it's finished.
Place it on ebay for 21 million USD when it's finished, maybe you get in the news so that everyone seas your logo and bitcoin goes mainstream just by that.

cheers

[codishmumu]

In Europe and America, orange is commonly associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism. In Asia, it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Satoshi was fond of the word "Karma" in his pennings, ergo the color orange becomes an even better fit. I wonder if bitorange.com is available.  

I just don't understand.

We want a color that reflects passion, power, success and wealth. Not passiveness and calmness and "activity". You get that from gold as well.

[codishmumu]

We would have that company or man (or woman. Please don't be sexist. We have just as much to contribute to this game as much as men do) would probably benefit from investing in this currency if they knew about it, and were enticed into it with the right appearance. If I were a rich wealthy person that wanted to get even more rich, I would overlook a currency with a logo that looks like money designed in a video game. Using a serious color is just what we need. That and obvious larger scales of advertisement but we cannot spend millions of dollars to be placed on a platform for the 7 billion people watching us for them to just ignore our wonderful currency just because we wore orange, and not gold.

It is shallow, but looks do matter

HA! Do you know what events predetermined you even being here, or anyone else for that matter ? It wasn't a shiny logo, or a catchy phraze; it was a service that people wanted/needed.
To those people that pushed bitcoin into state of movement,hype and awareness, things like icon,logo and similar might have been a di*k (or a tw*t, not to be sexist) they wouldn't break a sweat over it.

You can set up a site and place whatever image you want for bitcoin, use sparkling efect,polka dots.. No one is stopping you. After all, bitcoin's main point is decentralization, everyone's vote counts.
Whatever sails your boat, but imho, it's not the picture that counts.

You'd be surprised how many wealthy people are very very shallow. Question: how did you manage to mess up the quoting?

I fixed it soon after ?! But anyways if you want to know, i spilled my vaping liquid all over my keyboard so it was a bit hard to focus on parts of quotes in editing, but i have the slickest keyboard
on forum now 

Oh don't worry. I'm embroidering the symbol in gold on my scarf as we speak.

Heh, now even i want to see it when it's finished.
Place it on ebay for 21 million USD when it's finished, maybe you get in the news so that everyone seas your logo and bitcoin goes mainstream just by that.

cheers

Heh heh...now you have me all giddy. Do you honestly believe somebody will purchase a hand knitted and hand embroidered muffler scarf for that much? ^____^

[BitUsher]

In Europe and America, orange is commonly associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism. In Asia, it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Satoshi was fond of the word "Karma" in his pennings, ergo the color orange becomes an even better fit. I wonder if bitorange.com is available.  

Yes, Asia represents over 2/3rds of the world population. We shouldn't allow provincial biases to get in the way of a global currency.

There is also the practical aspects that logo designs for the web should use web friendly html colors... which limits the choice between -

    goldenrod    #DAA520    rgb(218,165,32)
     gold    #FFD700    rgb(255,215,0)
     orange    #FFA500    rgb(255,165,0)
     darkorange    #FF8C00    rgb(255,140,0)

There are technical reasons that come into play with color choice.

[ajareselde]

Heh heh...now you have me all giddy. Do you honestly believe somebody will purchase a hand knitted and hand embroidered muffler scarf for that much? ^____^

No, even though a ball of snow was sold for 1 million USD..
I wanted to say that maybe the ludacris price would get in the news so that bitcoin would get exposure over it, and your logo as well, and that was what you wanted,wasn't it ?

Yes, Asia represents over 2/3rds of the world population. We shouldn't allow provincial biases to get in the way of a global currency.
There is also the practical aspects that logo designs for the web should use web friendly html colors... which limits the choice between -

    goldenrod    #DAA520    rgb(218,165,32)
     gold    #FFD700    rgb(255,215,0)
     orange    #FFA500    rgb(255,165,0)
     darkorange    #FF8C00    rgb(255,140,0)

There are technical reasons that come into play with color choice.

Marketeers and advertisers claim there's a lot of difference based just on the color combination u're using, so maybe op has a point to some extent.

[maokoto]

Both gold and orange are good. Considering that orange is good and gold is not so much distinctively better, it is best to remain the same.

Besides, there are several posts comparing bitcoin with gold, which is best and all that. It must be differenciated from gold

[codishmumu]

In Europe and America, orange is commonly associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism. In Asia, it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Satoshi was fond of the word "Karma" in his pennings, ergo the color orange becomes an even better fit. I wonder if bitorange.com is available.  

Yes, Asia represents over 2/3rds of the world population. We shouldn't allow provincial biases to get in the way of a global currency.

There is also the practical aspects that logo designs for the web should use web friendly html colors... which limits the choice between -

    goldenrod    #DAA520    rgb(218,165,32)
     gold    #FFD700    rgb(255,215,0)
     orange    #FFA500    rgb(255,165,0)
     darkorange    #FF8C00    rgb(255,140,0)

There are technical reasons that come into play with color choice.

Excuse this comment please, but you're being somewhat ironic.

[BitUsher]

Excuse this comment please, but you're being somewhat ironic.

In context of this discussion - Gold vs Orange those would be important considerations. People can design any logo they wish to with any colors around....

I was merely offering some healthy advice that adoption on web media needs to consider technical implications.

Marketeers and advertisers claim there's a lot of difference based just on the color combination u're using, so maybe op has a point to some extent.

They would be correct. As I said Branding and logos are extremely important.

Follow the evolution of successful fortune 500 companies. Logos tend to become more readable and minimalistic--

http://best-ad.blogspot.com/2008/08/evolution-of-logos.html
http://www.glow-internet.com/infographics/evolution-of-logo-design.aspx

This was one flaw with Satoshi's original logo.

[codishmumu]

Excuse this comment please, but you're being somewhat ironic.

In context of this discussion - Gold vs Orange those would be important considerations. People can design any logo they wish to with any colors around....

I was merely offering some healthy advice that adoption on web media needs to consider technical implications.

Marketeers and advertisers claim there's a lot of difference based just on the color combination u're using, so maybe op has a point to some extent.

They would be correct. As I said Branding and logos are extremely important.

Cool.

We're done here, folks! Let me play us all out with this great danceable song!

https://m.soundcloud.com/favulousworld/zak-waters-runnin-around


 Have a good night! ^_____^

[edric]

So I was sitting in my room knitting a sweater, but then I realized my crotchet needle wasn't long enough to make a full sweater, so I made a muffler scarf.





Eight hours of my life....

Anyway, I want to hand embroider the bitcoin symbol onto the scarf in gold, and not in orange. Someone argued that orange is a cheerful energizing color. That's not the spirit of bitcoin though. Bitcoin is about wealth. You can see our argument here.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1211547.0

My proposal is that the logo should be gold, while taking out that orange circle. The color gold will automatically entice more people to be a part of this currency if we occupy a color that exudes power, dominance, wealth, leisure and success.


Besides, gold yarn will look better on this cream colored scarf anyway.

Your thoughts?

I think symbolism is important.  If our goal is to market bitcoin to the masses and ultimately achieve world domination, then messaging is important and we should have this focus group tested.  My guess is people associate gold with wealth and security more than orange.

[edric]

No, even though a ball of snow was sold for 1 million USD..

wtf... Who sold a ball of snow for one million dollars?  In bitcoin?

[Hellacopter]

Both orange and gold are nice colors , but i prefer orange personally.
The color of the logo matter just in the design

[Mickeyb]

I personally don't care about the color of the logo. I think that we had many more important things and issues to worry about than will we have gold or orange logo!

Both are fine by me!

[vleroybrown]

In Europe and America, orange is commonly associated with amusement, the unconventional, extroverts, fire, activity, danger, taste and aroma, the autumn season, and Protestantism. In Asia, it is an important symbolic colour of Buddhism and Hinduism.

Satoshi was fond of the word "Karma" in his pennings, ergo the color orange becomes an even better fit. I wonder if bitorange.com is available.  

International Orange is also associated with experimental projects.  Bitcoin was developed by the NSA as a currency war project. 

[Q7]

I'll go for orange. Gold color should be reserved for gold alone and since bitcoin is not about gold or anywhere near that, orange will be perfect. Plus after so many years staring at the btc logo, it will look odd if you suddenly change the color into something different that doesn't look like btc in the first place.

[Pursuer]

I like the orange color of bitcoin logo I think it makes it unique.

bitcoin is better than gold so it shouldn't be copying its color anyways. besides bitcoin logo is known now with this color and is used everywhere no point changing it now.

[JeWay]

Gold for the BTC and yellow for the circle
I think this combination would be nice

[jacee]

Bitcoins should have a touch of the digital world
 Some kind of neon color or something brighter. I prefer the gold well because I find the orange color animated rather than the gold that is for me, the metalic color adds up to a more professional work.

[dothebeats]

Orange is fine, and it has been 6 years since bitcoin was invented, and the logo stayed as is even though there are some variations to it. For me, orange represents cheerfulness and joy, similar to what you just said in op.

[Amph]

i like the orange more, simply copy-paste would look very lazy, right now it's more genuine to bitcoin, and any other color would be off

maybe you can minor stuff to it, but i would keep it simple