Instantly reminded me of that:

Yeah, those are easily the best out of all of them.

Too many people seem to be fans of unnecessarily intricate, confusing designs. Such things make horrible, horrible logos. The flames? Sorry, but what is that about? Because TAK is fast? The flames are unnecessarily complicated anyway.

Text is the way to go for this.

+1

But a simple, easy-to-identify icon will also be nice.

Case in point: WinRAR's tied-books icon. Nice, and quickly identifiable.

Even Winamp's generic icon (paper with square wave on it) is easily identifiable.

Hi guys.

New TAK logo:

Guaranteed eye cancer! What a terrible contrast! The Text looks like too much like "AK".

Its your ideas.

Tom's AK? Now that would be an idea for a graphical icon.

"When you absolutely, positively got to kompress every m*********** on your drive." (or so)

Its TAK.
Are you blind?

rofl

That actually looks to me like THK or maybe even THC
God that hurts my eyes. Red on blue...

Colours are better but I still see it as THK

Yes, you right...

I vote for the second blue.
(Can you make a logo like this for my private website? )

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I rather think tbeck needs an easy logo, something that can also be represented by a programs icon.


I highly doubt there are "linux masses" out there. From my experience, people who really live with linux desktops are rather rare. There's a lot of blahblah around this topic. It's the political correctness of students for instance.
Just as a sidenote. I'm not saying tbeck shouldn't do a linux port.

Agree with squeller.

The logo should be simple and discernible enough (even at small sizes).

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looks a lot like the flac logo to me, same acronym with expansion below (caps instead of lowercase), same vu meter (horizontal instead of vertical), same color scheme...

This is an advertise from the latest issue of a local magazine. Look at the name of the product

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Here's my effort:


The color and "reflections" can be changed, of course.

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Hm... that's funny... I saw "The Next Karate Kid" today and when Mr Miyagi (or maybe it was his student) said "Let's just talk" it sounded just as if he/she said: Let's Just TAK.

Here is my suggestions:

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Isn't it obvious this is an audio forum?

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thank you,

yes, thats good points. Im gonna try to make it stand out some more. Bolder font pehaps, and a stronge gardient.. Anyone else got any good ideas before I get started?

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i'm happy that TAK is getting a lot of attention actually.

I LOVE COMPETITION™

But *i* don't like the logos proposed here, no offence please.



this one i like the best so far.

Thoughts?

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I'm still liking these ones a lot, a full year later. Clean, simple, and professional looking.

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Surely!

But it wouldn't be a good idea to comment any post. I don't want to disturb the creative act!

For now i want only comment some older posts.

I liked those logos:












You may also come up with something totally different!

Well, there have been more great and very interesting logos, but some seemed to be not suitable for different resolutions (especially icons).

Some thoughts:

Most people will probably use TAK in combination with foobar2000 or Winamp, and therefore the only logo they will see is the logo of the playing program.
For example, I associate lame/MP3 with the red foobar2000 logo and not at all with the official logo.

We already got a blue-ish foobar2000 icon. I don't know how winamp does it's icon management though...

If you need a logo I'd go with the blue one from Insulent.

It's got that modern "web 2.0 look", is easy to the eye, it is blue like the foobar2000 logo, and you could easily wrap a good looking website around it.

I think a text-based logo is really the only good way here, as finding an appropiate icon to "TAK" might be very difficult.
Please don't do a wave, speaker cone or VU meter logo, because we already got enough of them (Musepack, FLAC...)! This is the most obvious way of doing a logo, but also the most blatant and unoriginal one. A good example for an icon-based logo is the Vorbis/Xiph fish, as it is very distinctive and recognisable.


I guess you don't need to worry about that. The files itself will probably have the foobar2000/winamp logo. And for your GUI you could use just the 't' from Insulent's logo.

Absolutely right. They key is that it can be simply worked into a bunch of different sizes (especially button/icon sizes) and that it is distinct and recognizable. This typically means little to no shading and only a few colours.

WavPack, Vorbis, and to a slightly lesser extent Flac (which has the simple meter graphic next to it) all do this pretty marvelously.

The text ones that TBeck referred to are all pretty useable, but they do (with the exception of the black and gray one at the end of that post) all harken back to old 70s-80s hi-fi graphic design style. I think someone already quipped about how some of the logos looked they the old TDK symbol.

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I'm not a designer. But I'd also say people could come up with something new. Currently I see the rss logo here in my browser. It also doesn't simply say RSS. Just want to say the logo could be totally different from the currently presented ones.

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I just wanted to express TAK does not necessarily need a text based symbol. It could be any symbol. With "recognition value", like the marketing droids say (or "distinctive design" - /me is not a native speaker). It doesn't have to look like anything physical like sine waves or speakers. You're free

This is an idea that's been floating around in my head for nearly a year now:




It's a concept derived from a 3D visualization of a 4D hypercube. The outer grey cube stands for the uncompressed PCM signal, while the inner blue cube is the optimized, smaller TAK file. The name "TAK" can be put whereever you like outside the cubes; I chose the isometric layer in order to be in line with the "3D-ish" approach of the cubes.

I believe we have a winner. This is probably the most unique and "eye catching" design in this thread.

Yes it is unique. My favourite so far.

I do like a nice geometric shape. The logo is very nice indeed. I love the concept also (the grey as PCM, the blue as TAK).

I'm not so keen on the position of the text, although I understand the logic. I would say that the text needs to be recognisable in the standard plane, if that is the right word. I think if it was lined up with the dark grey panel it would not look strange.

Your suggestions have consistently been of a very high standard, but I think the simplicity and technological nature of this one makes it stand out above the rest. Very nice work.

Thanks for your comments!

For the sake of completeness, I made different colour versions and moved the text to the right for better readability.

We need to co-opt a color for tak (which we can use as the icon color for foobar- like how orange is associated with Flac, yellow with wma etc.)

Which color, though?