Talk:Light bulb and butterfly

Color Scheme Can Be Drastically Improved

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The design looks great but the color is a blue that is too commonplace, so it contradicts the creativity message intended by the light bulb figure. Perhaps use some orange to have some continuity with the previous logo and have a more unique color? With freemind being about creativity, it makes more sense to have a bold, imaginative color scheme in the logo using some less commonly used colors, like orange, pistachio green, or any one of the millions of colors available.

The default colors in freemind are generally great, except there is too much commonplace blue everywhere.

I liked the mind map in the background of the title logo as it did show what it was used for. The color scheme is a little common place, but sometimes common place can be re-assuring.

There's a reason that pretty sky-blue color is so popular these days: it's soothing, entiticing and screams "Web 2.0" - which is a good thing. I think, either way, the new look is 1,000 times better than the old. Well done.

The colors are fine on the new logo, but what I like is the imagery. It's obviously a light bulb, but with a pi symbol (the element) and a circle (the bulb) tied to it. Very cool.

For me the bulb is to technical, mathematical. I'd like to encourage you guys to re-design the butterfly and give up the bulb. From the design view, the warm colors are much better and I think you can have more success using the butterfly. Re-designing is good, but watch out not to leave the track. In your case perhaps redesign means a more abstract version of the butterfly (for example: I don't understand why you use two differnet Icons? The Splashscreen and the document icon?). "Free" is the butterfly, not the bulb which stands for "idea" ...

Really like the bulb! Understand (now) about the butterfly being free, but I use FM for developing ideas. Lightbulb is almost universally "idea" while butterfly is...? I agree that too much of everything is blue, and while it does scream Web 2.0, I like the idea of distinguishing it from every other thing out there. What if it were the new image based in orange. Orange and blue are complementary colors that work well together (e.g. Firefox logo!) so an all orange logo in a sea of blue would stand out without hurting the aesthetic sensibilities. Re two icons: I like one for program and one for documents.

I think the bulb is great. I would definitely endorse different colors however. Blue connotes stability and seriousness, which I don't think are FreeMind's aspirations. Deep, saturated green or orange would better communicate the application's uses and strengths. The beveled globe style is just fine; just change the hue.

I like the new design, makes it more fresh. Actually I like the new colors too, but would better prefer old colors, so maybe you can make it with blue background, and old butterfly color for the bulb, or second version - the new logo as it is, but keep a little butterfly with old colors (maybe a bit brighter though) inside the bulb. uldics

How do you like this?

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I've always liked the butterfly but can also see why the bulb makes sense. My very quick hack is shown below which combines the 2 images and uses the butterfly as the light within the bulb. I know several on the blog have mentioned this but have not seen any work to date, so apologies for any copyright-type violations. This is only a hack of the small icon. If I could get a high res file, then I could do this a little more justice.

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Hi -- Bill McClain on 4/10/2007 with a quick note: I'd like to suggest to anyone more artistically inclined than myself that the butterfly logo could, instead of having plain wings, have light-bulb-esque markings on them. Anybody game for trying this?

I Like the Butterfly...

but either way this is a fantastic, indispensable program I use daily. Thank you.