Forum Logo / Official Namecoin Logo

[phelix]

Well, it still has the logo rotated - italic and rotation is a ugly imho. Otherwise it's ok with me.

Done, although either my eyes are bugging out or there is some visual illusion that makes it look tilted upward.

Yup, it's one of the oddities of "the current logo" that the italic N has to be aligned with the other italic writing. Note that the version from artisbigshirts honors this.

Because of both the parts of the logo being italic the N and the writing are not distinguished enough in "the current logo", that's why I went for rotated N and standard writing in my suggestion:




btw, it seems the .svg files in your repo include a font which my inkscape can't find (though I have the ubuntu fonts installed). IMHO official logos never should include font files but be converted to plain paths.

Edit: it's a good idea to define cmyk colors but they should be "under color removed", e.g. at most two colors of CMY > 0 plus K >= 0.

I know that this is theoretically possible, but I've never reformulated colors to maximize black ink usage myself. If you would like to recalculate the CMYK, I would be happy to update the readme.

That's very easy. I will check what is a close Pantone standard color.

Although, I would prefer to keep the lighter blue as the website design uses that color.

Hmm, it seems the colors on the website are all relatively different?

Here is artisbigshirts' version with one of the font color from the website (and the coin a bit closer to the writing similar to the version on the wiki):

[indolering]

Yup, it's one of the oddities of "the current logo" that the italic N has to be aligned with the other italic writing. Note that the version from artisbigshirts honors this.

Ahh, so we need to use an artificial italic to match the slant? I'll take a look later tonight. From what I remember, I didn't like the original SVG file because it was ineloquently constructed.

Because of both the parts of the logo being italic the N and the writing are not distinguished enough in "the current logo", that's why I went for rotated N and standard writing in my suggestion:

Yeah, that's why I tried a rotated version as well (and because the Bitcoin "B" is rotated, not italic).

btw, it seems the .svg files in your repo include a font which my inkscape can't find (though I have the ubuntu fonts installed).

Odd, I will try tweaking the export to embed the font.

IMHO official logos never should include font files but be converted to plain paths.

I was going for compatibility with Inkscape, what if I created an outlined version? Or perhaps we should have the baseline files outlined and include non-outlined versions ("namecoin-wordmark-font.svg" and "namecoin-logo+wordmark-font.svg")?

That's very easy. I will check what is a close Pantone standard color.

Duh, Pantone! Added the Pantone swatch and revised the CMYK formula. Have you done some print design?

Although, I would prefer to keep the lighter blue as the website design uses that color.

Hmm, it seems the colors on the website are all relatively different?

Here is artisbigshirts' version with one of the font color from the website (and the coin a bit closer to the writing similar to the version on the wiki):

I still prefer lighter colors for logos, they are peppier and work well with Bitcoin's orange.

[ryanc]

http://blockchained.com/stuff/logo_abs_mod.svg

This logo actually looks like the N is rotated slightly counterclockwise, and it's wigging me out. Can we rotate it a degree or two clockwise to counteract that?

[phelix]

http://blockchained.com/stuff/logo_abs_mod.svg

This logo actually looks like the N is rotated slightly counterclockwise, and it's wigging me out. Can we rotate it a degree or two clockwise to counteract that?

Sometimes I see it, too. It's the original one, though.

2 degrees psycho view compensation and italic backshift compensation compensation:





@Indo: no outlines, the font just needs to be converted to a path (as in the svg above)

[ryanc]

http://blockchained.com/stuff/logo_abs_mod.svg

This logo actually looks like the N is rotated slightly counterclockwise, and it's wigging me out. Can we rotate it a degree or two clockwise to counteract that?

Sometimes I see it, too. It's the original one, though.

2 degrees psycho view compensation and italic backshift compensation compensation:





@Indo: no outlines, the font just needs to be converted to a path (as in the svg above)

That fixes it for me.

[phelix]

And 1 deg for comparison, it just seemed too much to me on a second look:

[indolering]

2 degrees psycho view compensation and italic backshift compensation compensation:

I think this one fixes it for me, when I isolate the logo on the 1 degree it still looks tilted. However, I think I prefer the lighter blue.... Let me do some work over the weekend to see how it looks at different sizes.

@Indo: no outlines, the font just needs to be converted to a path (as in the svg above)

"Outlining" is slang for converting text to paths . Back when type handling in printer graphics processors were buggy, everything was "outlined" before being sent to the printer.

[phelix]

Please everybody who cares give your opinion on color:








Classic: as in Qt
Light: as on the Wiki

Might be helpful to look at these without the forum background: http://blockchained.com/stuff/logo_colors.svg

Above in the thread I got carried away and used a new color that is only used on some website text so far. Also my original suggestion (temporary forum logo) uses yet another color.

Let me know if you feel the N is out of balance (this is the 1 deg version which looks best to me and one person I asked).

[ryanc]

I like the lighter color, slight preference for black text. Rotation is okay.

[domob]

I prefer also light/black. Next preference is dark/gray.