BoostLogo

Logo Concepts

• "++" - operator++().
• "<>" - template brackets.
• "rocket" - rocket or booster rocket.
• "thunderbolt" - as in lightning.
• "Boost" - using the Boost name itself.
• "std++" - boost is to std as C++ is to C
• Abstract - some abstract shape.

When thinking about logos you might want to think about these questions:

• What concepts describe "Boost C++ Libraries" to you?
• Are any of the above concepts more representative than the others?

Logo Submissions

• Logo should be vector based. It's fine if it currently isn't... But eventually the logo will end up as a vector image.
• Logo, or a part of it, should be recognizable in small 16x16 pixel size. It will eventually need to be a favicon. (See additional notes at the bottom of the page)
• Logo should be presentable in black and white limited print medium. The logo will need to be able to be reasonably represented when printing Boost documentation.

Note: When adding a logo below and it doesn't fit any of the above categories, please add an appropriate category to the list. And try and keep the list in alphabetical order by author plus image name so that one authors images are kept together.

Joaquín M López Muñoz - Plus Plus 1

Joaquín M López Muñoz (adapted from a design by Jonathan Turkanis) - Plus Plus 2

Joaquín M López Muñoz - Plus Plus 3

Joaquín M López Muñoz - Plus Plus 4

Joaquín M López Muñoz - Rocket

Joaquín M López Muñoz - Sphere

René Rivera - Plus B

René Rivera - Abstract 1

René Rivera - Abstract 2

René Rivera - boost/+

René Rivera - boost/++

René Rivera - boost/c++

René Rivera - boost/c++ 2

René Rivera - Rocket1

René Rivera - Rocket2

Jonathan Turkanis - Boost 1

Jonathan Turkanis - Boost 2

Mark Blewett & Jonathan Turkanis - Boost 3

Mark Blewett & Jonathan Turkanis - Boost 4

Jonathan Turkanis (stolen from Erik Wien) - Boost 5

Jonathan Turkanis (stolen from Erik Wien) - Boost 6

Jonathan Turkanis - std++

Dave Abrahams - Suite of Early Attempts

  http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.ppt (powerpoint)
  http://www.luannocracy.com/logo.pdf (PDF - imperfect translation of the powerpoint)

Dave Abrahams - Boost/std::

Michel André - Boost/c++

Michael Toksvig - Boost/std++

Daniel Frey

Kyrre Wedvik - Boost

  Jonathan Turkanis: Nice, but I think the rightward
  size increase is too pronounced. Also, the first one will only
  work for pages with a green/orange/red color scheme, so I think
  the second one is better. I like the font — what is it?

  Answer from Kyrre Wedvik: Do you mean the thickness of the type
  is increasing too much? I disagree with that the color-version of
  the logo only will work on that same scheme on a website. You can
  design a whole series of harmonizing colors to work with the logo. 
  or just plain white as this site is. The black and white example 
  is for copied versions etc. The font name is by the way TheklaExtended? (for Mac).
  But the colors can naturally be altered if wanted. 

  Jonathan Turkanis: I meant the thickness of the type as well 
  as the height and width of the bars. I think when the logo is small
  the text will look like "..oST"

  You're right about the colors, though. I suggest you put up version
  which will harmonize with the current home page and with 

  http://redshift-software.com/~grafik/boost/index.htm

  (also feel free to delete this discussion ;-)

  NEW LOGO, 16TH OF APRIL

  Kyrre: I decided do make another version for the boost logo, this
   time a more "bubblegum"-impression, which softens things up, and also
   did some typographical tricks with the box lying behind the type.

   Font name is "Stones". Colours are ment to harmonize with existing websites.

Erik Wien - Boost/space (Inspired by Jonathan's take on earlier versions of this logo)

  Erik: Put up a simple collage with some different flavours of this logo
  to replace all the different versions that were there earlier. Just so I don't 
  take up too much space here. ;)

Erik Wien - Boost/scope

Notes on Favicons

Many popular browsers support favicon - the 16x16 bitmap or PNG file fetched by the browser to be used to adorn URLs in menus, shortcut lists, etc.

Two images (the PNG and ICO files) are copied into /public_html and the following added to the <head/> of every document:

<head><link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="http://boost.org/favicon.png">
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://boost.org/favicon.ico"></head>

An example based on Dave Abrahams' rocket...

    (PNG) [ICO]

... shows up like this in Firefox:

Here's an online tool that converts an uploaded image to a favicon: http://www.chami.com/html-kit/services/favicon/

  Jonathan Turkanis: Often it's better to draw the favicon by hand, 
  since a different composition may be appropriate for the smaller image,
  and automated shrinking may produce a fuzzy result

// Fredrik

Steven Burns (mailto: royalstream at hotmail dot com)

I dont know if the Boost Logo is still open for discussion, but in any event I had an idea for a logo. Here is a gif screenshot and I have the original on vector format:

It uses the ++ and the <> brackets and with a little imagination it looks like a thunderbolt rocket on top of the word 'boost'. It looks pretty much the same on black and white and I'm sure I can make an icon version of it.

Boost rocks!