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Best font for the logo..?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #255, on June 6th, 2011, 03:49 PM »
- Space between letters: I specifically made sure to get as little as possible. Same for both logos, actually... I like it when text logos don't have much empty space.

- Yeah, the font is really good. It looks professional and not dull. That's PT Sans (check it out on Google Fonts). I really like its simplicity. Have fun with it :)

- The strike-through line is definitely your idea, yes. But I liked it! Just because I'm trying different logo ideas doesn't mean I'm forgetting earlier good ideas ;)

- BTW, welcome back! What's up with SMF and Wedge then...?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #256, on June 6th, 2011, 05:19 PM »
You cannot lose the 'strikethrough' - that is the wedge.
Maybe enlarge the font and enhance the 'wedge' a tad.?..... otherwise I love the original logo
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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #257, on June 6th, 2011, 06:40 PM »
The new ones are a bit too... well I don't know, too '90s for my taste. I love the current logo and can't really see the reason to change that.

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #258, on June 6th, 2011, 06:44 PM »
The reason is painfully obvious: it doesn't look good on dark backgrounds. It was only built with light backgrounds in mind... And since the Wine styling in Wedge has a dark footer...

Well, I suppose I could do *without* the logo in our theme...

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #260, on June 6th, 2011, 10:37 PM »
Okay, I'm convinced... I'm removing the logo entirely from the theme :lol:
Just the triangular symbol will do!

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #262, on June 7th, 2011, 08:30 AM »
Quote from Arantor on June 6th, 2011, 12:47 AM
How odd. I like both but prefer the left too - but I wonder how much of that is my internal 'don't want change' instinct kicking in...
What he said.

We are going through this again? :p
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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #263, on June 7th, 2011, 08:53 AM »
And it'll never end... :P

I just spent half an hour redoing a Yanone-based logo from scratch (with some proper border this time), only to scrap it in the end...
Nah, I'll just go without the logo.
[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #264, on June 7th, 2011, 11:26 AM »
How about looking at the simple solutions, like this?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #265, on June 7th, 2011, 11:31 AM »
I'm talking about a text logo, not a symbolic logo...
We already have (pretty much) a symbolic logo which I like.
Anyway, it's not like our current logo is bad or anything. It's just that it's missing some details to make it 'work' on dark backgrounds. So I used the opportunity to give a try to another kind of text logo...
[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #266, on June 7th, 2011, 12:23 PM »
Ah ok :)

I like the soft and earthlike colors of this forum, I am tired of the "cool and edgy" style with silver/blue color combinations. Also I really like the current logo, the only thing I'd do for it is to drop the picture of the wedge from the lower left corner.

Have you tried to "buttonize" the text logo so that the logo by default has a certain background color? Would that be a solution for it?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #267, on June 10th, 2011, 12:56 PM »
Quote from stackmouse on June 7th, 2011, 12:23 PM
I like the soft and earthlike colors of this forum, I am tired of the "cool and edgy" style with silver/blue color combinations.
Warning: Wedge.org != Wedge.
Wedge has the Wine styling, which is less 'earthlike', and more 'edgy'. It's still very good looking -- I'll post the first screenshots later this month, after I'm done with my nth redesign.
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Also I really like the current logo, the only thing I'd do for it is to drop the picture of the wedge from the lower left corner.
It's not really associated with the text logo. And I like the triangle...? It's the only thing I had absolutely no influence over (being a suggestion from Bloc), so obviously I like it best :lol:
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Have you tried to "buttonize" the text logo so that the logo by default has a certain background color? Would that be a solution for it?
I posted such examples last week and no one seemed to like them...?

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #268, on July 5th, 2011, 11:38 PM »
I figured it was about time I updated my little SP style avatar dude with a current shirt :D (And yes, I only have a 'tache at the moment, the beard went last week for the funeral)

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[Archive] Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #269, on July 6th, 2011, 12:03 AM »
No transparent PNG uh? Would be best for my image manipulations...... :whistle:

And you could have done it BEFORE I made the new logo for the FB group..... :P

BTW, the mustache doesn't look like a mustache at first sight... Since there's no mouth, it actually looks like you're brooding. And the mustache is your mouth!
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