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Re: New Logo

Post by Alan » Sun Aug 12, 2018 5:23 pm

Start clean and make it slightly more weathered every year so that in 15 years it’s only half readable and listing away to one side.
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Re: New Logo

Post by Stormbringer » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:20 pm

Alan wrote:
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Start clean and make it slightly more weathered every year so that in 15 years it’s only half readable and listing away to one side.
Ha! Great idea!

Anyway, here's some new drafts:

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Re: New Logo

Post by eny » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:29 pm

Bottom one for me I reckon. Great job Doug. =D>

*nb* we need a thumbs up smiley.
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Re: New Logo

Post by Stormbringer » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:50 pm

Okay, so let's just say we roll with the last option.

Mantis asked me to create a white banner 960 x 140 with the logo 240-280 x 120 in the centre of it.

That would appear exactly like this (well, except for the fact that it's been auto-resized to 640 pixels wide ¬_¬):

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Is that what you had in mind, Mantis?
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Re: New Logo

Post by Mantis » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:53 pm

That’s perfect, mate. What would work even better is if the white part was transparent, pretty sure I could make it work easily with every theme we have that way.

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Re: New Logo

Post by Stormbringer » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:55 pm

How about this?

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That should be the correct pixel ratio, and now has a transparent background.
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Re: New Logo

Post by Maturin » Sun Aug 12, 2018 8:58 pm

Nice work Doug.

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Re: New Logo

Post by eny » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:30 pm

Quality tbh
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Re: New Logo

Post by Tichinde » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:41 pm

Agreed :)
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Re: New Logo

Post by Medicine Man » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:42 pm

I kind of miss the image of the guy cranking it now. :(

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Re: New Logo

Post by Gibby » Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:46 pm

Great work, Doug. That last one is perfect!

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Re: New Logo

Post by Mantis » Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:15 pm

Thanks a lot for doing this, Doug, it's a pretty big task off my list now and I'm not sure I'd have been able to produce anything that looks as good as that anyway.

The new banner is now live on all of our installed themes, just do a ctrl+f5 refresh if you don't see it.

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Re: New Logo

Post by Sly Boots » Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:21 pm

*nods appreciatively*

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Re: New Logo

Post by Stormbringer » Mon Aug 13, 2018 7:00 am

No bother; t'was a fun wee project!

By the way, that designer I told you I got in touch with? He is very talented (he illustrates old school RPGs and creates black metal band logos), and he actually did get back me in the end (he's a busy man, apparently), but he said he would charge £120 for the work, which is fair enough -- the dude has to make a living -- but I think we got a better deal here. ¬_¬
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Re: New Logo

Post by Medicine Man » Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:31 am

Man I'll bet we could've got a really bitchin' version of a dude cranking it for that kind of cash.

I'm game if anyone else is? To Kickstarter!

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