I appreciate the sentiment, but I have to protest. Don't take this personally; we are being honest and objective here. This looks like a few extra lines slapped onto the Internet Explorer "e", and the blue makes my eyes bleed against that white. It looks like a mid-1990's startup that's not to be taken seriously at all - certainly not a currency that may be worth billions one day. Is it readable at 16x16? Sure, but it's also not attractive and desirable.
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This looks like the money of the new "1%". And what do those 1% get? The best Cryptonote innovations first, lead by the top programmers, most elite community, and most astute economists and mathematicians in the world. This isn't an altcoin.
This is Aeon.
You make some interesting points, but there's something about that philosophy that's a little jarring. It really depends what your objective is. If the objective is simply to make something appear valuable so that people will become entranced by it's subliminal extravagance, what does that say about what's being achieved here? Are we just trying to make the price go up? All the brands you referred to in the picture relate to luxury/wealth/extravagance. It's almost as if you're trying to ensnare people in on the basis of them becoming wealthy with Aeon. Is that really the right message?
My interest in Aeon is that it is a potentially amazing radical private currency that is suited particularly for low-fidelity hardware. We're on libertarian crypto-anarchist territory here. I'm not sure dressing it up as a BMW is the right approach.
So what is your objective? Think carefully about this.
That said, I get what you mean about my logo mock-up. I literally just fired it up in a few minutes and I'm no graphic designer. My point was that all that's required is a simple vector on a plain background. Just like the Bitcoin logo.
Now, as for this:-
It's interesting because I'm really not feeling this at all (with all due respect to critical60). To me this seems like all of the other altcoins out there. The blue and the grey kinda reminds me of a miserable wet day, and the white lines seem way too thin - kinda wimpy. Fatten those white lines up!
Maybe with some tweaks I could get behind it.