The idea about a dot in the "O" of EOMA made me think of fonts where the dot is in the 0 (zero) to distinguish it from O (capital letter O) As we all are somehow computer related I would find such a design confusing.
If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of blender, one would want to make the "O" not really in any particular font, but to look exactly the shape blender logo, except without the flay or the color scheme: a perfect solid-color circle within another perfect circle. It wouldn't theoretically be confusing because the mark you are thinking of is a hollow circle in an oval. Letter-o'es and zeroes can only sometimes be confusing because in some fonts they are both written as vertical ovals, not just the zero.
I'm not sure on the required dimensions of a certification mark, however, the solid-shape flag-esque convention I've noticed among popular one's, often seems to detract from the continuity of the design on the objects that bear them, making them seem particularly foreign and like they don't belong. The vaporwave-esque color palate which most of them choose only add to this affect, as if they themselves are trying to distance themselves on some subconscious level from their endorsements.
As a side effect to this, it makes them harder to trust. Any symbolism of any significant body, displays historical awareness.. It's what tells people whether they can trust it, before reading or attempting to judge it. Therein lies the axiom, there is no such thing as an original thought, so, if by means of arbitrary work dedicated to make more concise and thoroughly plastered an announcement of what historical or cultural event may have inspired such thoughts and such work, people will then engage in the arbitrarily difficult work of judging whether the project is sincere or not.
In other words, if we don't display more than necessary effort in our symbol that can be recognized with several magnitudes less effort than it took to generate, then no highly-self-valuing person will have any sane reason to take us seriously, because if they took every slightly promising project, which failed to create a Sybil-certificate reputation in this manner, then they would never find a single valuable project in their lifetime (obviously this is an exaggeration).
If it was really to be in honor of the modularity and progress of blender, one would want to make the "O" not really in any particular font, but to look exactly the shape blender logo, except without the flay or the color scheme: a perfect solid-color circle within another perfect circle. It wouldn't theoretically be confusing because the mark you are thinking of is a hollow circle in an oval. Letter-o'es and zeroes can only sometimes be confusing because in some fonts they are both written as vertical ovals, not just the zero.
Thank you for clarification on that point. Now I am understanding better what you had in mind and agree that a dot in a perfect circle would not create the mentioned ambiguity.
I made a concept logo a while back for EOMA, which had an E in cloister black font to reference L. Lawliet (a symbol for Justice as well as a detective with worldwide logistics as well as a keen eye for anonymity and security), an O made by merging elements from the blender logo with the eye in lulsec's troll face, an M relatively undecided however temporarily borrowing the M from a microsoft logo, and an A in courier font (the first public domain font I know about). All wrapped inside a hollowed out version of Fisheye Placebo's comic logo, which symbolized transparency/surveillance by reference to a fisheye lens (further symbolically I placed the lulsec blender merged O where the pupil would appear).
Shortly afterwards, I discovered that the uniforms in "the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" all bare a mysterious m on the chest resembling L's cloister black font.
The school has no official name I know about, so I believe the M intended irony with story's name. Melancholy over dissatisfaction with society having uninteresting aesthetics as well as individuals having slow personal development appear like the two greatest most persistent themes. The series plays with reshaping the world anew by destroying and rebuilding, as well as how aesthetics end up created by those who desire them often without their noticing. The story makes oblique commentary on these themes heavily disjointing the what with the how, by making the how always magic.
I find that, oddly appropriate for libre hardware. Being a movement about ethics, I find aesthetics sits just behind our backs. We desire ethics we don't notice, thereby creating those ethics with our passion to DO as well as to complain and almost never worry about getting copied.
L's logistics embedded L in the world. Blender and Lulsec idealized openness to help from anyone. Haruhi wanted a complex modular world. Courier symbolizes a computer's role as a transport mechanism for ideas.
I imagined whatever number could also type in Courier. I wanted to know if anyone re-thought this idea at all, as well as feedback on the new thought about the M. Je ne sais pas quoi ~ Thank you, in advance.
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