Minimal "Bitcoin Accepted here" buttons

[hilariousandco]

You should keep it with the original colors. Imagine seeing Facebook in red, yellow, green somewhere.

See? This is exactly what I'm talking about.

Facebook is a centralized company. It wouldn't make sense to have a range of different colour schemes and logos.

Bitcoin is not Facebook.

Even though bitcoin is not centralized or a company, it has to be recognizable in a way, hence the (usually) orange logo.

Keep the logo, change the colours?

Nah, change the logo, keep the colours.

My interpretation:



A couple of others:

http://imgur.com/a/SFpH4

Images aren't showing up. I don't think we should change the symbol. It's already kinda iconic.

Anyone else see the images? Works fine for me in 2 different browsers on 2 different IPs... They're all on imgur.

p.s. This logo is also rather iconic and uses the Ƀ:

Weirdly they're working now.

Marketer here. Branding is extremely important and has nothing to do with centralization vs decentralization. The end goal is effective communication and you're not going to have that if your message is all over the place. Design is not just visual masturbation, but a way to communicate to people.

Yeah, without the word Bitcoin in there you probably wouldn't know what those symbols were for. They need to be easily recognised by all.

[franky1]

here's my 50second attempt just for fun



plus i am not swearing, as MTGox really is SHUT

[Cyberdyne]

They need to be easily recognised by all.

Agreed. And the more entrepreneurs like me use them, the more recognised they will become.

I could be wrong, but I doubt the people who go to Bitcoin Kamikaze to gamble, decide not to deposit just because it doesn't have the over-used orange logo.

Good subject for a consumer-feedback survey I guess.

It would be nice if anytime someone encountered any kind of lone B symbol on a logo, they assumed it had something to do with bitcoin. Images in Bitcoin Myths have an even different shape B to the main two we're discussing, but it doesn't stop it from looking like bitcoin.

If you saw a sign like this:



...would you say "Oh that's obviously referring to bitcoin" or would you say "That can't be bitcoin, it doesn't have two lines sticking out the top and bottom of the B".

[bitcoinminer]

here's my 50second attempt just for fun



plus i am not swearing, as MTGox really is SHUT

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lol

[kik1977]

Marketer here. Branding is extremely important and has nothing to do with centralization vs decentralization. The end goal is effective communication and you're not going to have that if your message is all over the place. Design is not just visual masturbation, but a way to communicate to people.

From a dev analogy, this is why you have things like the "Android Design Guidelines" and UI / UX best practices. Yes, it's an open ecosystem, but there are best practice guidelines for a reason. If some lazy dev uses Sencha or Phonegap to create some shitty cross-platform app, consumers are going to have a rough time figuring out what the hell is going on. Similarly, if you have green Bitcoin signage with unfamiliar logos, you're introducing a level of confusion to the very people you are trying to target. Language itself is decentralized, but you don't see me going out there and spelyng thingz difrint just beacuz aye can.

Quote 100%.. just a matter of communication! But sure, everyone is free to do what he likes, if the community likes your work, it will pick it up!