Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-188432-20130110025213/@comment-24894325-20170528140229

The matter of the logo had to be decided by February 2013. As with any question involving taste and artistic expression, no unanimous opinion on which design is best could be expected. RTD knew that, Moffat knows it. No reason to expect more uniformity in this case. However, it should be noted that most designs eventually discussed were based on the proposals within the discussion.

During the discussion of several fascinating designs and ideas (some technically impossible), "Roadway" variant emerged as a collaboration between several designers and garnered the most votes among all the designs.

Further, throughout 2013, the design was extensively used by the community as a whole as the basis for the 50th Anniversary Wordmark Project.

Thus, the design was both explicitly chosen as the most popular in this thread and implicitly approved by the wider community as part of the anniversary celebrations.