I would like to collect some ideas for the TAK logo. Unfortunately I'm not really a talented. So all you graphic talents in the forum please contribute.

Maybe in the result we get a nice idea for TBeck? :-)

I'm not that experienced at creating stuff from scratch, but I might have a go at it...
My current avatar is one of the very few things I have created on my own

Never heard of TAK before, but I found out that it is a lossless audio format.
So is TAK the full name of the format?
Or could it be called TAK lossless, TAK audio, TAK codec ...

I've always thought simple text-based logos were the best. That and they're easy to make.

Here are some more infos about TAK.

TAK (Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor) is the full name.

@Insolent

The second logo look fine. Just the color skeme "green". Anyhow I conect green with the LAME encoder. But thats very subjective.
Maybe another color?

Thanks for contributing!

I love the second one, except for the color (reminds me of LAME like gottkaiser said) and the fact that there seems to be a gap between "a" and "k" while there is none between "t" and "a".

Throwing this one out there:






Nice one

The green is a bit LAME
Add the dark outline to the top version and only on the "tak"

Maybe in blue? Or brown...ish?

one vote for the bottom blue one

Bottom blue one is a very nice. Looks great! Nice job

I really like the logo scheme proposed by Insolent, especially the blue one.

I would recommend taking the current icon assignments of foobar2000 into consideration — it would certainly be a convenience and add to the recognizability of the format if the color scheme could match an eventual foobar2000 icon. For example, I commonly associate FLAC with yellow and WavPack with red, even if the logos are... black-ish with red, yellow, and green, and blue and black, respectively.

foobar2000 icons for lossless codecs have the face as black, eyes as white, and the background varies; the color close to the blue is still available, and would look something like this (too lazy to change the text ):

I don't think we should take any other program icon assignments into consideration.
I would say let's just invent a nice Logo that suits TAK. (my opinion)

I like the lower blue on from Insolent.

@TBeck

Whats about you?

Very nice. I would vote for this one.

Rephrase mine to "If the logo would be the bottom blue one, we could perhaps have the foobar icon as above" I did not mean to suggest that the logo should be designed to fit in with icons for another application.

I don't know what color is best but I'm against that typical boring standard green which is the same as in lame mp3 or ableton live...

I liked the simplicity of this one, with the over lapping letters. It has my vote.


Excuse the crudity of this version, I have paint and that is it. Inverting the logo looked a lot better to me, and I think that "T" should have a different color, red might not be the best choice.

The bottom ones from Insolent are great. Simple and appealing. (Sometimes when you see a bad logo it makes you want to not use whatever software it is for...)



I associate FLAC with red/orange, WavPack with dark red or black, Monkeys Audio with brown, Shorten with blue and lame I very loosely associate with green.

nice one but, imho the name change is in order first, toms audio is just funny.

I like both. Well, possibly there is a slight tendency for the second, because i have deceided for TAK in capitals...

But please dont' take this as a final statement! It's very much fun to watch your creations. Please go on.


I really would like to understand this... But my english is too limited.

The first thing to consider when creating a logo should be "will it look good on monochrome"?

At least, that's what I always had in mind when designing the WavPack logo and when helping the LAME devs choose their logo.

Is it a coincidence or is kjoonlee joking with rjamorim's post

Oh, and please be conscious when choosing the right font. Some licenses forbid the use in logos and so on...

Made som alterations.
The thought about the different thickness letters is that they are smaller, but no information is lost = Lossless

Could just be me, but I can't look at this



without thinking of this

Hmm... Cloud i possbliy be suffrieng form dyselxia?

edit: No problems with copyrights or monochrome displays...

Oh really? Why is that?

Pssst! No need to tell, that TAK is based on some very old fashioned technology....

TBeck; Change the name (maybe 'The audio kompresor'), but thats only my humble opinion.

I think there should be a graphics too. Almost every format or codec has a graphical logo.

No, don't change it from "Tom's ..."!

And yes, a non-letter graphical symbol would be nice, like the cut "diamond" of the TDK for isntance... or rather a symbol that refers to a key technical aspect of TAK.

The TDK and TAK thing came to my mind as well. Since I'm a total TDK freak I happened to like the logo. And I still have some TDK tapes from the late 70s that still are going strong.

I agree. I'll whup up something later tonight.

my try;


and funny sign try;

Here's my input; I know it's not that great (and a bit sloppy), but I'm not feeling very creative at the moment.

First a variation of one of the above:

And a few based on... well, you know on what it is based on...

At the risk of appearing as a target:

wow this is cool.

TAK attack.

An attempt to emphasize TAK's speed and "hotness"

/me :heart: this

I'm going to have an attempt later today

@Silversight

looks realy good!

Maybe you can do another try in a different color. Blue for example? And maybe it's possible to add the "Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor"?

I'll give it a shot during lunch break and make some different versions, f.e. one version only with the initial "comet-like" flame. The addition of text could prove difficult as it's quite long for such a round logo, but I'll try.

I agree with the idea of having a graphical image to associate with your logo. It's hard to decide on something that important though. I am still trying to decide on mine.

So... like I promised, I made some new versions of the comet flame TAK logo: The first version, a single flame version with circular text and a single flame version with normal text.

The text integration really is difficult. The circular text is just some sort of proof-of-concept. It works, of course, but it's not very beautiful. Adding horizontal text is easier and looks better.

My favourite is the bottom version in blue - I think it's the most elegant one. Plus it looks good in monochrome.

//edit: Oops, colour conversion screwed it all up - CMYK can be a real b****. Here's the correct picture:




And this is the incorrect picture with matter colours:

I showed my wife this thread so she made a couple of logos in PSP.

@Silversight

I like the long flame logo. Is it possible to have the flame in more colors (maybe two or so) and add the "Tom's lossless Audio Kompressor"?

A lot of good icons here. Hard choice to make i bet. Good job guys.