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Draw Logos from Memory

neal.fun

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I hope all the drawings are being logged so the followup can be "1000 attempts at the starbucks mermaid", kinda like the "draw me a sheep facing left" project: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/thesheepmarket/

That would be quite unfair and non representative since the given pen size is way too big to actually reproduce the Starbucks logo, even if you had the memory and talent.

considering you can swap colors back and forth, I'd say it's mostly possible (to draw thinner than the minimum just draw one color, overwrite with another)

With a mouse? I'd be impressed.

With a touchpad? Still impressed.

With a touchscreen? Maaaaaaybe but wow tedious.

Tried it with a stylus and with a touch screen: neither were supported.

Eh?I just finished drawing them all on a touchscreen. Android phone to be specific.

Only problem was I don't know how to draw

You can draw finer lines by drawing a thick one and then erasing part of the line with the background color? On an android phone?

I'm extremely impressed.

When I try to do stuff like that on Android I'm lucky if the input drawing box stays still. I easily agree that they're possible to draw, just not at all easy to use multiple colors to precisely remove a fraction of a line width from an existing path.

i'd be shocked if there were more logos than penises.

I hope too, I don't want my drawing efforts be wasted.

Also relevant: Bicycles of the Velocipedia project: https://www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-item/velocipedia/

Reminds me of the exhibit of inventive pictures made by students of various ages in the Bycicle Museum in Sakai, Osaka, Japan.

For example, one drawing was of a bike / submarine hybrid - from a kid who likely wanted to explore the ocean.

The bicycle one is always fun.

I suspect if you know that a bike frame is typicall two triangles for strength you’d get it right, some of those are hilarious though.

Ok, that was actually pretty entertaining. I didn't see a way to save or share the doodles, but I was able to print as pdf (after clicking a box for "show background" to get all the images to show).

Here's mine - but obviously, don't peek until you've done it yourself: https://imgur.com/a/YxX64F3

I can't exactly say I'm proud of getting most of these right-ish, though I've never seen the snapchat logo before, or if I have no one mentioned what it was!

If anything I'm disappointed in how close I was for pepsi considering I never even drink it... those ads are eyeworms I guess.

I definitely recognized the snapchat logo when I saw it - but I haven't used that app in years and it totally escaped me when I was trying to recall it on the spot. My husband also ended up drawing a bad imitation of the instagram logo (another app we don't really use) in it's place, which I thought was funny.

I still can't figure out what the heck I thought the spotify logo was. I knew it was 3 of something.

I vote the Twitter Chicken become official

Just goes to show you how a mix of boldness and simplicity goes a long way. Nike and Spotify had the most easily-reproducible logos. I don't think I could draw the starbucks logo from memory with a gun to my head, and I couldn't even remember Amazon's logo at all.

Paul Rand, who designed IBM's and NeXT's famous logos, said a logo should be simple enough and memorable enough that someone could draw it in the sand on a beach using just a stick.

I wonder how many people will discover the arrow in the Amazon logo representing “everything from A to Z” because of this.

Never in my life would have come close to thinking this before reading your comment.

I knew that and still botched the logo. Memory is weird. https://twitter.com/esesci/status/1389775324930404359

I just think of that f***ing Disney smirk.

Do you remember the first time you saw the (negative space) arrow in the FedEx logo?

Yep, it was October 2011: https://xkcd.com/960/

Nice. Should alternate between logo and leaf of common edible plants ;)

Interesting concept, but frustrating that it only works with mouse and that touch/pen input are dropped (Windows/Chrome)

Cool idea! It's a bit broken unfortunately on mobile firefox. When you paint upwards, it scrolls the page, and then jumps when the address bar becomes visible.

Still drawing the old Pepsi logo and I don’t know when the new logo will ever sink in

For me it was NASA, drawing the worm logo instead of the meatball. I still think abandoning the more futuristic logo was a major mistake. Good that SpaceX brought that one back.

> Good that SpaceX brought that one back.

That wasn't SpaceX – that was Jim Bridenstine. The SpaceX Crew Demo-2 mission was the first NASA mission to use the worm logo since 1992, but that was NASA's decision not SpaceX's.

An undo button would be nice, especially on mobile

For some odd reason I thought logos software finally made hacker news. Alas. https://www.logos.com

y'all are training some universal paperclips ai

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