{"id":3714,"date":"2014-02-22T11:57:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T19:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:58:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:58:55","slug":"uua-logo-our-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2014\/02\/uua-logo-our-version\/","title":{"rendered":"UUA logo: our version"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Carol and I have been playing around with the new UUA logo. Carol doesn’t like the way the flame in the new logo is disattached from the candle-chalice thingie. I don’t like the way the sides of the chalice-thingie act as walls which keep the flame from being seen from the sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mind you, it’s way too easy to be a Monday morning quarterback. No logo can ever be perfect, and certainly the UUA logo is a pretty good design, and more than adequate. But it’s way too easy to play around with graphics on our laptops, and Carol and I had nothing better to do on a sleepy Saturday morning, so we spent half an hour revising the UUA’s logo. Here’s what I came up with:<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"UUA<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Update: June 24, 2018: The above logo is now released under a Creative Commons license; please attribute to “A UU”.<\/em>
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Compare it to the official UUA logo below. See what I mean about the sides coming up around the flame in the official logo?<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"UUA<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

(Now that I look at this again, I wish I had made the sides of my version even lower, but I’ve already wasted too much time playing with this.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus said something like (and I’m paraphrasing here): “Neither do people light a candle and put it inside a red and orange bushel basket, the walls of which extend halfway up the flame, so the people below us cannot see the flame.” Buddha supposedly said (another rough paraphrase): “Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened; but if your candle is inside a red and orange chalice thinige, others will burn their fingers trying to light their candle from your candle.” The new UUA logo is a pretty accurate graphic representation of what our denomination is actually like; my revision of the logo represents the way I wish our denomination were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Update, 3 hours later:<\/strong> Ah, what the heck, I might as well make the things the way I like it — here’s a version with even lower walls, and now it looks like the “U” is kinda lying back and the candle is standing up inside it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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\"UUALogoMash2\"<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Update: June 24, 2018: The above logo is now released under a Creative Commons license; please attribute to “A UU”.<\/em>
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Carol and I have been playing around with the new UUA logo. Carol doesn’t like the way the flame in the new logo is disattached from the candle-chalice thingie. I don’t like the way the sides of the chalice-thingie act as walls which keep the flame from being seen from the sides. Mind you, it’s … Continue reading “UUA logo: our version”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uua-politics","tag-uu-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9526,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/9526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}