it is getting better and better. Awesome!
Shall we consider an official geekhack color? I was hoping for a difference from the standard IBM blue or gray. IE I wanted the logo to be both understated, and also stand out.
I think the logo should not be brown to avoid being mistaken for rust. No black, gray, blue also because these are overly corporate.
I think red, orange, green will all work. I think forest green is more discreet than red/ orange so I'll vote for that. An alternative is purple; it looks rich and royal, yet is clearly not a corporate color so even ignorant people can guess that it wasn't made by a faceless company.
If our current logo discussion works eventually we should adopt that as the official geekhack badge for all geekhack crowdsourced keyboards and keypads. That way we will eventually be able to get discounts for getting 1000 made; it'll also be a proper badge that can be recognized by people on other forums eg reddit.
Lastly, I've always been opposed to all these variations of the logo:
http://geekhack.org/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=42051.0;attach=17899;imageI don't like having the name fully spelled out. For one, geek is still a derogatory word in many circles. For two, hack is also a generally negative word. And geekhack suggests to many outsiders that you are part of some semi-illicit hacker community. It's not good to display the word too blatantly on a keyboard when you are doing business and want to be taken seriously. As an older man I am quite away of these things.
Also consider how IBM handled it. None of the words International Business Machines have any negative connotation, but it's too lengthy and staid. A concise IBM, much like a single pair of golden arches for Macdonalds' or just FedEx for Federal Express, makes for an easily recognizable logo. Remember that most logos have very few letters. They save you that few extra nanoseconds to read. You don't need your eyes to sweep from g e e k h a c k . o r g to recognize it - just GH is enough.
And since GH is also the center of the alpha typing space on a QWERTY keyboard, it's very easy to associate us with being the center of the keyboard world.
Consider how elegant and memorable this is