Thanks itsallpc for designing a logo. I've been reading the comments and it's nice to see the positive vibe of all the reactions, great work!
Your post has given me some food for thought. Please don't take me wrong on the following, it's my opinion and I'm hoping it will help the project in a positive way (if nothing else then just the though behind a logo, what does Ultracoin stand for) but I've been thinking a lot about the Ultracoin logo.
First off I'm not a graphical designer, just a nerd with an interest in graphical design so I started playing around with PS a bit. The reason for doing this is because I think a coin logo should have a solid base design and from there you should be able to use it in many different ways with different colours, backgrounds and purposes, but always the same recognizable base design so people would instantly recognize the logo to be Ultracoin's. After looking at all the major fiat/crypto currencies out there it seems the most common way of depicting a logo is by grabbing a character and pierce it with one or two bars (dollar, euro, yuan, yen, bitcoin, litecoin, etc...). That said I figured I'd take the same approach, which is not that original from a graphic design point of view but it does make it easier for people to associate it with money/currency/value.
The result and thoughts behind it are below.
http://onaxys.com/Ultracoin-3x3.jpgI like the initial logo that was posted when Ultracoin was announced, it's kinda slick and simple and it lends itself for a lot of different purposes (to my taste). I started by grabbing the first font I came across and fiddled around a bit. Starting point is the U (duh...). The bars are made with the same rounding in the ends as the top of the U which was added in order to fit it into a circle (to fit a coin shape). I figured I wanted the angle of the bars to be 'off' from fiat (which is usually horizontal or vertical) as we are taking things into a different, upwards, direction. At this point I ended up with the bottom row and played around a bit with the bars fully visible. I wasn't really happy with the 'weight' of the logo's in the bottom row so I figured to cut the bars away from the middle so the U-shape becomes more clear. At this point it looked like something where you can store something in (value) and even if it would topple a little the bottom bar would keep it steady. TC could be one of many fillings (gives a nice ring to it in the urban dict.
).
I prefer the top-left logo as it's the cleanest version and leaves a lot of 'space'.
Please note that this is about the shape of the logo, not the colors, background, highlight effects or any other form of appearance, as they are all quite trend/taste sensitive.
