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Best font for the logo..?

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #945, on March 13th, 2012, 08:40 PM »
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Can you confirm that you added no extra strings to the English version? I've checked them all and it looks like it's only about splitting strings into a string + subtext, and you did it all for the French version...
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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #946, on March 13th, 2012, 08:42 PM »
Good.

Ain't committed my changes yet... Having problems testing my local install on my iPod (dunno why but it no longer recognizes my direct IP, even though I haven't changed anything to the firewall setup and it's a static IP...). Still, I'll be done before tomorrow I think.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #947, on March 13th, 2012, 10:45 PM »
I'm looking forward to it! Meanwhile I'm still working on my changes which are going to clash.

Perhaps I should commit my changes now as the odds are strongly that it'll be easier for you to merge my changes in (as they are right now) rather than the other way around?

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #948, on March 13th, 2012, 10:46 PM »
If they're not too many... ^^

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #949, on March 13th, 2012, 10:48 PM »
>_> I just replied on another thread about the scope of changes!

Meh, today has been a grind, need tea and possibly a donut now.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #950, on March 14th, 2012, 10:27 AM »
Quote from Nao on February 20th, 2012, 10:20 PM
Something like this, then, following your remarks..?
(Did the logo a few days ago but forgot to post...)

I think I prefer a 'simpler' logo, myself.
So, I guess the final logo (for now :lol:) is going to be something between the two main directions I went last month...

http://wedge.org/pub/6271/logo-madness/msg273529/#msg273529

I removed the wedgeship logos from that post, and added variations on the current minilogo. You can see that variants 2 and 3 use a different font (Aller Display) that has more 'life' to it, yet is as neutral as the other font. The only issue I have is that it has strange letters like the 'R' and 'Q'. I'm open to (free) font suggestions, all I require is that they have similar weight and a 'G' that doesn't have the usual horizontal tail.

I need to know what the general thought about logos is.
- Because we need final badges...
- Because we need a final favicon...
- Because we'll probably get more exposure once the demo is online, meaning if we change the logo soon again after that, people will be confused and it'll only hurt our position. (I think.)

The first logo is definitely the 'looker'. There's a good balance in it, but I can hardly find a place where it looks good apart from the footer area, where it is right now in Wedge btw. The second (and third, and fourth) logo, while not as exciting, looks more mature, as in "this is the kind of thing that a company could get away with for decades without feeling out of touch". Which is why it also has my preference.
There are minor differences in the logo itself, you should notice them easily. The last logo (simplest77) is a bit narrower (although it's the same width as simplest75), it no longer looks like a trail of water (simplest76) or whatever, but as it's "squarer", it's probably easier to use in icon material etc. The first two versions are similar but the left side is not at the same angle.

So, please share with me your choices for the demo site!

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #951, on March 14th, 2012, 12:42 PM »
simplest76 is what's used for the badges here, yes?

Whatever's being used in the badges currently, go with that.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #952, on March 14th, 2012, 04:56 PM »
MERCH!!!!

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #953, on March 14th, 2012, 05:06 PM »Last edited on March 14th, 2012, 06:39 PM by Nao
Quote from Arantor on March 14th, 2012, 12:42 PM
simplest76 is what's used for the badges here, yes?
Yes.
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Whatever's being used in the badges currently, go with that.
Isn't it too wide..?
I tried doing it as a vertical logo, and here's what I came up with. It looks nice enough. Looking a bit like this one --





Is that what you want on the shirts? :P

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📎 webelow2.png - 4.08 kB, 75x58, viewed 196 times.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #954, on March 14th, 2012, 05:08 PM »
But webelow is structurally what's on the badges so it really should be that! :P

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #955, on March 14th, 2012, 05:25 PM »
But the badges can be changed to accomodate any changes... ;)
That's the whole point. I got bit in the ass in the past by not keeping all of my assets. Now I have them all, sometimes in double, to give you an idea, my logo folder currently has 958 elements... :P

Added a mockup for a monochrome version of the logo (for use in Wine for instance.)
Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #956, on March 14th, 2012, 06:47 PM »
Bump for opinions on the latest vertical logos!
(I understand your own, Pete, I'm just waiting to see if someone else than us actually cares about all that at this point :P)

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #957, on March 14th, 2012, 06:50 PM »
There's a difference between webelow3 and 4? I can't see it...

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #958, on March 14th, 2012, 06:54 PM »
not sure now if you guys should go with more than one wedge image..

wouldn't that become "wedges" or wedgies"??  :hmm:

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #959, on March 14th, 2012, 08:21 PM »Last edited on March 14th, 2012, 08:33 PM by Nao
Quote from Arantor on March 14th, 2012, 06:50 PM
There's a difference between webelow3 and 4? I can't see it...
Just the background color... It's still important.

So... Which is best?

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