This is great, Lieuwe !

In case you are modifying the design, look at an option where you have clear, thick, bold lines. This will make the logo easily adaptable in smaller sizes, since merging of thin, fine lines will not be an issue simply because these thin, fine lines will not be there, and all you have is thick, bold lines which cannot merge.

Vijai

Hi Lieuwe,

You could proceed as follows:

AA
First decide what you want the logo to be.
- Will the logo include the text as appearing at the bottom of the image,
or
- Will the logo exclude the text appearing at the bottom of the image

BB
After you have decided on AA, ask the owners of the logo to agree to your selection.

CC
After approval of owners at BB, do the test for clarity in 1cm x 1cm size 'on paper'.

Carolyn,

All my comments have been based on my own hard-core experiences of over three decades, including over one decade on issues of Communication and Advertising alone. My only focus has been educative on this thread and based on a professional outlook where personal opinions are secondary, and industry practices are foremost. I wish to emphasize that these are not my personal interpretations, but are the norms which are diligently followed by all professionals who work in this industry 'from the inside'.

Hi Lieuwe,

Please also see my reply to the post by Carolyn above. I can see from your post above that you have correctly perceived what a 'logo' is.

About your other comments:

Logo on a website - a website does not provide any restrictions on the size of the logo.

Carolyn,

In reply to your comment above, let me explain a very basic aspect.

A 'logo' is always the 'frozen' element.

When the 'logo' (frozen element) is used with other elements like text, the 'logo (frozen element) + 'text (or other elements)' does not become a new logo.

In this new arrangement, the 'logo (frozen element)' is still the 'logo'. All other matter like text etc does not become part of the 'logo'.

With this I hope that there will be a clarity on what a 'logo' is.

As an example, consider the following to understand this:

Hi Stanley,

I shall be happy to reply to any specific questions on my earlier posts in this thread. In addition, I also look forward to any specific questions not covered in my earlier posts here. It is always good to interact with people who are willing to learn. So let the questions flow...

Cheers

Vijai

Hi Lieuwe,

To answer your query, I will mention here a fundamental aspect.

There cannot be more than one logo for any organization.

The design of logo (comprising of any element like graphics, text, etc) is to be 'frozen'.

This implies that, once 'frozen', 'nothing' is to be changed in the logo, except the size.

Even for changing the size, the aspect ratio is to remain the same. This means that the image is only to be enlarged or reduced, 'without' changing any element in the design.

For any logo, there must be total clarity of all aspects in the smallest size in which the logo is ever expected to be printed.

If we imagine the smallest size of the logo will appear on a business card, then perhaps a size of 1 centimeter x 1 centimeter could be the smallest size in which the logo could ever be printed. There could be still smaller sizes like printing the logo on a pen, but those applications may not be exercised at your end.

To test for clarity, reduce the size of the logo to 1 cm x 1 cm, and see if all aspects are totally clear.