Originally Posted by Rapp's yellow CF
Completly not my business and looking in from the outside:
Take many of the examples you have worked up to a lot of different people. Don't say anything about them not a word. Ask them to pick out the best/better and tell you what they see/problems. Ask them what does it mean/do they know.
What I see is this: The layout in post #77 is clean, very much like a XF's. The oval is an easy shape to look at, easy on the eyes, smooth. The last layout of the states is irregular, harsh with jagged lines and alien looking. Sorry don't mean to offend and I live in a state that is shaped like a mitten with a thorn laying on it!
I can't imagin what we'd make up.
Another odd but for me real thing is that when I read "Xfires" my eyes/mind sees "Xfliers". Is there a way to use the actual word Crossfire some where and change the Xfires to just XF?
Otherwise I'm not a big fan of red/white/blue, but I'm a rotten no good liberal so I'd say something like this. On our yellow car I'd be hard pressed to add red or blue-no I don't think so. If it is a badge sticker that would look silly, like a nose or a kids sticker.
Hi Rapp, ...I for one appreciate you taking the time to give your honest opinion about our proposed logo. I went back to post #77 and reviewed that oval logo again. I must admit it looks good, but we still need further input from people other than our fellow XFire owners here in New England to come up with a winner. I know the outline of New England looks foreign to you, but up here in the Northeast, we're used to it. It is what it is.
Now the problem or reading XFires as XFliers. We use the word XFire to represent the word Crossfire. If I was unfamiliar with this brand of vehicle, would I know what XFire stands for? I would say probably not. Pehaps keeping word recognition in mind, we may want to consider replacing "XFire" with "Crossfire". Once again, if people are unfamiliar with the car, they may think we are members or a religious group, or maybe something worse.
Maybe we are getting carried away with this idea and should subscribe to a K.I.S.S. plan. The more we get involved with an intricate design and color combinations, the more it will cost us to reproduce such a logo.
I say let's hear from more XFire owners from outside New England with their thoughts.
Bob M