Re: GTP Logo Revamped

[Metin Amiroff <metin karegen com>]

Hello Danilo!

Danilo Åegan wrote:

> First, let me state that I like the logo very much.  Perhaps 5 or 6
> too many colours for my taste (I prefer logos which are at their best
> even in black-and-white print-outs; btw, I counted 7 colours, so
> that's what I mean with "5 or 6 too many" ;-).

We obviously share the same taste I suppose, but here I have to use as 
much colors as there are continents, because there must be some kind of 
 "wit" in logo. 2, 3 color or grayscale version won't cut it imho.

> FWIW, if people really insist on getting more stuff on, perhaps you
> should add some globe-like distortion?

I think in the latest version I have the whole world pretty much 
covered, don't I? :) I tried to use globe-like distortion, but did not 
like that for some reason.

> Please use sans-serif font for the title.  Serif fonts are commonly
> useful only for long-texts, since serifs are useful when eyes read
> long lines of text.  Of course, they're sometimes useful for titles,
> but only at large sizes: they'll distort quickly at small sizes, and
> we want logo to be useful at (almost) any size).

Agree, sans idea was only for testing, as we were going to change the 
font anyway. So I gues noone is against using Trebushet MS in our logo 
then? It is beautiful, sans-serif and current Gnome logo seems to use 
that. The only problem would be that I won't be able to embed all 
Trebushet characters, just needed ones because lisence prohibits 
redistributing [1]. So if one wants to modify the svg file and change 
the title, he/she must have Trebushet MS font which is a Microsoft property.

> SVG file seems to run into some problems for me[1].  Perhaps my
> libsvg is not recent enough?

I don't think so, either this is my error or Illustrator exports buggy 
svg file so I guess I'll try to do that other way. Would you check the 
new file below?

I have now updated logos (force refresh your browser):

http://www.amiroff.com/drafts/logo_simple.png
http://www.amiroff.com/drafts/logo_shadow.png
http://www.amiroff.com/drafts/logo.svg

Have fun!

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/typography/faq/faq11.htm
Scroll down to the third question.

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Metin