[apparmor] Proposal for a new AppArmor logo

[John Johansen]

On 05/24/2018 10:47 PM, Noah Davis wrote:
> Unless you're shipping an official GUI application, it should really
> be up to application developers and icon theme authors what the
> functional icons look like. The point of this logo is to give artists
> a common starting point that can be adapted to their needs. When users
> see the shield with the mirrored 'A's, they should hopefully think
> "Ah, that must be AppArmor!" instead of having to wonder what some
> generic looking lock or shield icon means. Of course, it will likely

Sure, the color is going to get adapted depending on where it is used,
but it doesn't preclude the project from offering a couple of different
variations for them to start from. 

Eg. we should probably have a more monochromatic version that fits
in with the current flat colorless icon themes.


> take a while before this logo catches on and it might never if it
> isn't prominently displayed when people look for AppArmor on the
> internet.
> 
getting displayed on the internet shouldn't be a problem. If we adopt it,
it will be put up on the project pages, wiki, common criteria etc. We
could even submit some edits to the wikipedia article on apparmor.

We can also start using it in presentation etc. Yes it will take some
time but since we aren't replacing an existing branding (we don't
really have anything atm) I expect it will catch on fairly fast.


> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 10:33 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 05:56:51AM -0400, Noah Davis wrote:
>>> Here are 2 different versions. One has a 45 degree split while the
>>> other has a split at an angle that mirrors the angle of the inner
>>> sides of the 'A's.
>>
>> I like the red too; I prefer the cyan but that just might be a holdover
>> from my BBS days.. I think my 'ideal' use of these icons would be cyan for
>> nearly everything, and red in the i3bar or notification area when there's
>> recent DENIED lines in my audit logs.
>>
>> I think I prefer the symmetric split vs the 45 degree split but honestly
>> they're both really sharp. :)
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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