With the colours its easier to grasp, in being easy shapes, but also has more depth if you want to look into it.
Im hearing a lot of "less complexity". but I am not trying to make a generic logo (like the fontlogo). In doing that you subscribe to the current design trend, which is to make subconscious no detail attention-span overloaded stuff. Arguments for that are cynical in my view, but also i dont think short timespan advertisement brand display is going to be the main target.
What is instinctively communicated isn't the finest detail, but rather the visual nature of how the shapes combine, for a variation over how much can be remembered from that initial catch onwards. The argument of being able reconstruct something has to do with HQ, and is a little bit misguided in my opinion. To remember something for how this makes sense, is to grasp its character, not necessarily to understand it fully.
Trends change, and as they do, what we have a lot of today will look not only dated, but instead have the opposite effect in not going under the radar, but exposed for what cheap imagery much of it is.
Pop culture is not the same as eternal value. Stealing rehashed ideas is the opposite of design, thats following into predetermined patters. One might good at such a thing, but its the art of imitation.
The gray was really to offset the rest, so as not to have the centre as focal attention. If that effect is desired yellow worked very well. There is thought going into most things, like the original palette,
but with colour i have limited abilities. Need to see it before i can tell, and that means looking in the dark for good options for the most part.
The forum software ruins the colours though, and introduces blurriness to make 7KB 6.6...
Its more of a general idea rather than an exact science. The thumbnails are more accurate in terms of colour.
