Wedge

Well, for now! :P
We haven't finished discussing this... I still want to do it at some point :whistle:

But whether we do that or not, I do think that Quick Reply should be available below every post. Only, as a small icon or whatever, instead of a header that takes the entire width.

It's not a hoax... In my heart :P

ARG, I have no idea what this is supposed to stand for :P
Other than that, I understand you're suggesting something like #374, which I'm not super-excited about. As I said, 90% of all corporate logos use the same formula: a small symbol, and next to it the company name in a special font.
Thing is, I'm not a big fan of these. Most of the logos I see on the website Adonis mentioned fail to keep me excited. It's very rare to see a symbol that really stands by itself. The Apple and Nike symbols are some of the 'good' examples of this. They're well known, but mostly because it doesn't even say the company name next to it, and they promoted it a lot. There are other examples where a company logo is just its logo in a special font. It works well for Facebook (because of the strong color code, white on blue background, and a modified Klavika font). It doesn't work as well with Samsung for example.
We don't have the marketing power to afford a single symbol with no product/company name on it, so we'd have to go with symbol + name and settle on what most people do...
What I like in the current Wedge logo is that it focuses on the name, rather than the symbol. The symbol is only there to give more life to the name, not to represent it in whatever way.

One of the things I liked in the old header logo, was that the symbol was behind the 'w', slightly offset. It was visible and yet not the center of attention. I like that, but it's hard to reproduce in the new logo. Plus, the 'ship' logo wasn't so hot with most people here.

Tonight's a special night to me. I installed another copy of Wedge on the server, and I finally ran TE's import tool on Wedge.org. I just... wanted to see if it would work. And it does!

It's not perfect, has bugs here and there, doesn't import attachments and avatars yet, but you have absolutely no idea how wonderful it was for me to find myself face to face with a fully converted SMF forum running Wedge. The dream has finally come true!

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And it looks gorgeous. There's no better way to test a design than to insert real data into it. I'm really happy with it now. I wasn't sure -- now I am. Party on! (Oh, and we're trying new Wedge logos, if you didn't notice. It's not final yet, but you can follow the process in the Logo Madness topic. Everything's public. Because that's how we do things at Wedge.)

Yeah, that's because in that version I'd split the w from he rest so I could color it from within the same software (as opposed to doing some PSP7 reworking). So the drop shadow was apparent between the two letters. I noticed that and when I came back to Helvetica, I joined the letters together to avoid it.

Hmm, no.There's a reason I put logos in the forum header. It means that's my favorite choice, and it becomes the de facto benchmark for other logo attempts.Nope. Just the aesthetics.A capital W with that font would make it twitch even more.You don't need to have experience -- I'm the living example of that, I never touched vector programs before this week. (I did use 3DS Max and Blender but (1) they're 3D, (2) I sucked HARD at them and needed them at work so let's not remind me of that too much :P)
What you need is a sense of taste that reconciles everyone's ;)

I believe K@ and Road Rash at least beat you on that count ;)

Well the alpha will be public so no need to sign up eheh.

PS: can you tell me, on a psychological level, your reason for changing the font size and color on each of your posts?