Ancestors

Written by Keith J Grant on 2024-10-11 at 17:13

This is the owl icon i've been using for several years now for my personal website and as my avatar in a handful of places. I think it's time he* had a name. What should I name him?

• I think it's a he. I'm a he, and this is sort of my logo, but I suppose that's not really a strict requirement here

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Toot

Written by Keith J Grant on 2024-11-03 at 23:49

Okay, so I might be onto something new for my logo... still some refining to do, but I think I like where this is going.

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Descendants

Written by Keith J Grant on 2024-11-04 at 00:31

I’d totally welcome any critique/improvements from designers. Like should I thicken the glasses more to match the thickness of the “g”? It’s still just a bit more busy than I’d like, but I’m not sure where I could further simplify

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Written by Tyler Sticka on 2024-11-04 at 16:01

@keithjgrant The glasses and owl face are charming and very nice!

I’ll admit my brain is having a bit of trouble parsing their relationship with the descender. It can’t decide if that’s half an owl torso or if the owl is laughing with a very tall mouth.

I’d be interested in seeing a version with a letterform that’s closer in geometry to the owl parts, or vice versa!

(YMMV, no hard feelings if you disagree! 😊)

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Written by Keith J Grant on 2024-11-04 at 18:21

@tylersticka I totally get that! I've already tried a few different tweaks to the shape of the descender that I haven't liked. I'm actually thinking I might brainstorm some more options without the "g" at all... it already took a lot of failed "G" shapes to get to this one

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Written by Tyler Sticka on 2024-11-04 at 21:46

@keithjgrant The tilt of the letterform while the owl face is straight up/down might also be a factor? May be encouraging my eye to work a bit harder to reconcile the shapes.

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Written by Keith J Grant on 2024-11-09 at 00:26

@tylersticka And now for something completely different.

(I'm still going to fiddle around with glasses and/or a necktie, but it probably doesn't need them)

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Written by Tyler Sticka on 2024-11-09 at 14:12

@keithjgrant Lovely! ☺️

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