Make your "we accept Bitcoin" logo

14 messages BitcoinTalk Martti Malmi, Satoshi Nakamoto, giik, BitcoinFX, Sabunir, Ensayia February 7, 2010 — February 26, 2010
Martti Malmi February 7, 2010 00:27 UTC Source ·

Everyone open your graphics editor and make a “we accept Bitcoin” logo. A good looking logo (preferably better than mine ) would be really useful.

My first version attached.

giik February 7, 2010 19:12 UTC Source ·

I took a shot. Small, clean “btc accepted” sign. See attached file.

giik February 7, 2010 19:14 UTC Source ·
Quote from: sirius-m on February 07, 2010, 12:27:56 AM UTC

Everyone open your graphics editor and make a “we accept Bitcoin” logo. A good looking logo (preferably better than mine ) would be really useful.

Is there a high-res bitcoin logo? Or a vector-image?

Satoshi Nakamoto February 8, 2010 01:22 UTC Source ·

No, sorry.  I’ve been meaning to redo it.  The largest icon that still looks good is the 20x20 one which is used for the tray icon in GNOME.  Any larger than that looks bad.  The 16x16 and 20x20 ones have quite a bit of hand tweaking to get the pixels to work out right.  If you just scale down a larger image, the pixels end up blurred and awkward in places where the lines in “BC” don’t land square on a pixel.

The best 16x16 with full alpha channel is in src/rc/bitcoin.ico.  I don’t like the 32x32 version.

I’m attaching bitcoin20x20.png, the 20x20 version with full transparency.

giik February 8, 2010 20:22 UTC Source ·

This one is inspired on the PayPal, secure payments logo.

giik February 8, 2010 20:24 UTC Source ·

A simple “we accept Bitcoin” image.

BitcoinFX February 9, 2010 15:04 UTC Source ·

Thank you for these sirius-m, giik and all future contributors. I might have ago at producing a logo myself.

Is this a logo contest ? How many Bitcoins for the Winner ? 😁

Perhaps anyone who adopts a contributors logo for their website might consider a Bitcoin donation to it’s creator(s) ! 😎

Martti Malmi (sirius) February 24, 2010 13:24 UTC Source ·

Thanks, these are getting to look good.

BitcoinFX February 24, 2010 16:07 UTC Source ·

wow ! Yeah looking really good 😎

As well as GNU GPL why not attach a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/ to them. You can reference the project address and request a Bitcoin donation for their reproduction. 😊

Sabunir February 24, 2010 18:00 UTC Source ·

I am not that picky. Growth of the Bitcoin network and promoting more widespread usage is sufficient reward to me.

Satoshi Nakamoto February 24, 2010 21:53 UTC Source ·

If you GPL stuff, I have to avoid using it.  Nothing against GPL per-se, but Bitcoin is an MIT license project.  Anything GPL please clearly mark it as such.

Sabunir February 25, 2010 01:52 UTC Source ·

I see. However, Copyleft is a general concept, and GPL is not its only form. For instance, there’s also Design Science License or Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike. But if you want to adopt my images, I can simply drop the Copyleft.

Also, I thank those two who have donated to me. You did “made my day”, and encouraged me to make artwork for Bitcoin.

Ensayia February 25, 2010 09:52 UTC Source ·

Adding a new one to my stack.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3713850/bc_v2.png

Donations greatly appreciated: 1J7aZ1ay5ZJvWBc1EhbNAh5HpCzN8dtW6o

BitcoinFX February 26, 2010 02:46 UTC Source ·

Good work !

Please could someone perhaps design a Bitcoin ‘banner’ 468 x 60. I have around 10,000 banner impressions that I wouldn’t mind donating to promote bitcoin.org on some traffic / hit exchanges. 😎

Thanks.