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Best font for the logo..?

Powerbob

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1110, on December 14th, 2012, 03:08 PM »
Quote from Farjo on December 13th, 2012, 10:42 AM
I like the original, and the red-on-black one. The thing you've done with the g is nice however to me it looks a bit like the nike tick.
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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1111, on December 15th, 2012, 08:25 PM »
Is the shape too big? Or it's just about the colors?
There's an infinity of possibilities... Just look at this, took less than two minutes to do. :P

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1112, on December 15th, 2012, 08:37 PM »
I don't think it's about the size or the colours, it's simply that it is just too reminiscent of the Nike swish and there's not a lot you can do about that without changing the fundamental idea.
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Nao

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1113, on December 16th, 2012, 12:14 AM »
What about the amazon logo?

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1114, on December 16th, 2012, 12:15 AM »
I gotta say that the Nike logo came to mind long before you mentioned Amazon - I can see the similarity but it's still more Nike than Amazon.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1115, on December 16th, 2012, 12:18 AM »
So if i changed it to an Amazon logo ripoff that'd be better? :P

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1116, on December 16th, 2012, 12:21 AM »
Not really :P

Seriously, I'm not saying it would be better or worse, just that as it stands I'm reminded strongly of Nike, and vaguely (when prompted) of Amazon, not of anything forum related.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1117, on December 16th, 2012, 02:08 PM »
It's not supposed to make you think of a forum, rather of a wedge... Don't lose it :whistle:
Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1118, on December 22nd, 2012, 11:09 PM »
Just in case, I've added the latest option to the poll, you can still vote for 3 items or less, but I doubt the current leader will be any different in a few days... So I guess we're staying with the uppercase version for now ;)

Oracle

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1119, on April 15th, 2013, 12:13 AM »Last edited on April 15th, 2013, 07:28 AM
Nao,

Figured I'd throw my hat in the ring > Had some spare time on my hands and came up with this...

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1120, on April 15th, 2013, 08:01 AM »
Nice logo! The font not my cup of tea though.

Nevertheless, I doubt this will gather enough interest compared to the consensual current default so I won't add it to the poll.

Oracle

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1121, on April 15th, 2013, 11:19 AM »
No matter, I'm quite fond of it though.

If you look closely @ the letter "E" it kind of resembled a fork to me so thought it would be appropriate. If anything the logo colouring slots in nicely with the rest of the site > Quite striking I thought. The emblem in the logo was derived from one of the other fonts I toyed with. After some nifty manoeuvres the "W" emerged.

Ho hum back to the drawing board.

agent47

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1122, on April 15th, 2013, 11:24 AM »
Nao, if you don't mind giving me a couple of the fonts you've used on the above logos so I can try working on a few myself.

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1123, on April 15th, 2013, 11:59 AM »
@Oracle> I also played with the fact that 'W' and 'E' are similar in shape, but the results weren't particularly interesting. Well, I've made plenty of logos I find better than the current one, but that's the thing, it's something so frontal, it needs to be liked by most.

@agent47> Aller Display, Segoe UI, Helvetica (various types, such as LT or Neue...), and Sansation. I think these are all the ones used in the logos in the poll. Lato, Lobster, Meta, TheSans, Tin Doghouse, theeeese are a few of my faaaaavorite thiiiings... Errr, a few of my 'sanctioned' fonts, for attempts at doing a Wedge logo.
Not that you can't use another font... It's just that I've always wanted a 'professional' looking font.

I haven't worked on the logo for the last few months though. I lost interest, I guess, mostly after everyone else did the same... ;)

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Re: Logo Madness
« Reply #1124, on April 16th, 2013, 04:58 AM »
Quote from Oracle on April 15th, 2013, 12:13 AM
Nao,

Figured I'd throw my hat in the ring > Had some spare time on my hands and came up with this...
Design might be kinda neat on a shirt.
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