[ESP] Name, goals and logo

[Don Middleton]

On Jun 16, 2004, at 3:39 AM, K. A. Bouton wrote:

> Wow - impressed at th espeed with which you got this out!
>
> Just a note.
> Green (then red) is the color most not seen by color-blind people. 
> Anyway I
> remember a big CLIVAR fight over green/red logos...

Were those green and red???

I'm one of 'em: deuteranopic and deuteranomalous folks are pretty 
common, maybe 1% and 5% respectively, primarily males. I see less reds 
and greens (lots less!), more blues and reds - a spectral response 
shift. It's not something us visualization people typically put on a 
resume', however ;-)

BTW, the politically correct designation is "hue-challenged".

don

>
> Katherine
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: esp-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:esp-bounces at ucar.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Roland Schweitzer
>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:09 PM
>> To: esp at ucar.edu
>> Subject: [ESP] Name, goals and logo
>>
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Rather than wait for the wheels to turn to produce a
>> brilliant mission
>> statement with precise goals and a new name I decided to
>> metaphorically
>> put pen to paper and create a logo which contains my suggestion for a
>> new name for the group.  The attached PDF is the result.
>>
>> N.B. The logo attempts to symbolized the key components of
>> 1) data on
>> and about the earth (with no specific references to particular
>> continents or countries) and 2) cooperation (both via computer and by
>> humans) symbolically linked across the logo.  The suggested
>> name has the
>> old name embedded within it, but is different enough (I hope)
>> to avoid
>> confusion with the popular NASA project.
>>
>> There are three "logos".  One plain, one with a "tag line"
>> and one small
>> "brand" for placing on participant web pages where appropriate.
>>
>> Should in its wisdom (or dare I say lack there of) the collective
>> decides to go in a different direction, I will happily use
>> what meager
>> skill I have to create a logo to match the final decision.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>
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