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james2doyle
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I was in the process of making the Vim logo as a vector and I decided to make a Vico style one.

vico

I sampled the colours from the old icon. So things are still that same brown shade.

I realize this is a big change, so I understand any disinterest in making such a change.

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It's an interesting thought. While I dig the homage to vim, I feel like it errs a little too close to the vim image. I dig the idea of a new logo—I'm not the greatest fan of the current one, as it's a little abstract for my tastes. But on the flip side, I feel like this ties us a little too closely to the vim identity. While we're definitely strongly inspired by vim, I would prefer Vico to maintain a separate identity.

Hope that makes sense, and I'd love to hear other opinions.

@james2doyle
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Yeah that makes a lot of sense. Keeping it as it's own identity is probably a better idea.

@Shadowfiend
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Thanks so much for offering this up though! I'd be delighted if this kicked off a discussion on the logo :)

@james2doyle
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Ok cool. Maybe I will try something else when I get another chance.

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girvo commented Mar 5, 2014

I agree with @james2doyle -- while this is quite nice, it's too close to Vim's normal logo :) Something along those lines, but modernised would be a neat way to take it: Vico is indeed just that, Vim, but modernised!

How that would work, I'm unsure. I'm no designer, but I'd say clean lines, bold contrast and colours, and a lack of outlines would be the way I'd try to tackle it (even still stealing the idea of a homage to Vim).

Just my two cents $AUD!

@james2doyle
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How about something like this:

vico2

It might be a little too hip. Also people are mixed on long shadows.

@Shadowfiend
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Sorry I didn't reply here before, it's been a crazy few weeks and I wanted to see if anyone else had any opinions—I feel like this one won't scale particularly well to smaller sizes, and seems a little too simple, if that makes sense. It feels like it would look a bit out of place in the Dock as well.

@jordwalke
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Agreed.

@philippeowagner
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+1 for a new icon/logo.

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gf3 commented Apr 13, 2016

i also made a vico icon years ago lol

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gf3 commented Apr 13, 2016

(i don't think it should be used though)

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