User:Sierra-D421/Diary/Volume 0/Page 1

1954 hours, 2022-04-17
Hi-ho, Sierra here! Let's hop into another journal.

I've been a lurker guest on the CLG Wiki since the Wetpaint days... when I was young, innocent, naïve about everything. I think I was five when I first encountered the site. Ahhh, the memories... But I digress. Around the time the Miraheze site went up and the Wikifoundry site went down, I created an account here on this very wiki... heck, this very site, even. That's also when muck hit the fan for the world (thanks, COVID-19. /s). But that's not my point.

Ever since I first discovered this place, all those years ago, I've been fascinated by logos; an interest I still have to this day. And while I've heard some nasty things about the logo community, I've also met some nice folks. Lyric, despite no longer being an active member of the community, is still one such example of the good side of this little village. Perhaps I'm still innocent, and there are things I haven't seen yet that might change my mind... after all, I haven't been on the forums.

With that said, I've got a little something to show off.

First off... you know HP's logo on their high-end products? The one that looks like 4 bars?



Well... I took the liberty of modifying the logo so as to improve it.

The initial version looked like this:



The horizontal spikes were meant to improve legibility, so that instead of looking like four unreadable bars, it would distinctly read as "HP"

But after some outside input, I decided it still needed revisions, so I went ahead and created version 2, with smaller horizontal spikes:



Then I began to think about how it wouuld look in a circle, resulting in this:



After some further feedback, I shrank the circle and adjusted the horizontal spikes on the monogram:



I decided that I liked that particular version, and proceeded to tidy up the gap between the monogram and the ring... and got some additional ideas. That particular endeavor led to the creation of a variant similar to the one used on HP's mid- and lower-tier products, as well as a logo inspired by the 1979-2008 logo, along with print versions of both:



I know, I got really carried away doing this, but I still had fun regardless.

I hope you liked this little rambling jaunt about one of my projects, and I look forward to seeing you all in the next journal.

Bye for now!

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