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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Nice -- Colorwise, that hot blue with red outline, rocks. ( Are you drawing your own letterforms?) If the message line was centered vertically, it would read a little better? I like the concept of the first one, too. If you gave it the "hot blue" treatment, I'd be a happy camper! Thanks for the efforts. . .SDR |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, even without changes, the second one is cool! |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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red outline? i think that may be an opticap illusion...
yeah i was thinking it would be better centered vertically
i like the way the first one works though...
i sort of reminds me of the use of "SC" for espn's Sports Center... since S is both the first and last letter of SportS.... so the SC can be in the middle while also representing the first letter of Sports and Center... |
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SDR
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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I like no.s 2 and 3 best. (The *ahem* slight irregularities in D and C are disguised.) One last crit: the S, G and O, whose tops and bottoms are rounded and therefore optically recede from the baselines, are typically made to extend slightly over the lines to compensate. This font also seems to compress a little irregularly, so for that reason I prefer the full-length DESIGN COMMUNITY .COM.
The "letter-sharing" strategy you mention is fun to play with. A device sometimes used in dot.com logos, to reflect the "no spaces" format, is to switch colors from one word to the next. . .? But I like what you have. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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it makes so odd optical illusions i think...like teh D actually almost looks like it could be a B and the C could be an O
the bluish purple color also seems to change shades depending on if white or black is the dominant color in the foreground...
i'll keep working at it...
also yes, the font doesn't compress very well unless you bump the resolution way up...but i can keep tweaking it more |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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Yes -- I guess you could modify the D and C in the areas that don't "read" the way you want?
I like the way colors are modified by their context -- one could compensate to "correct" them or, alternatively, "push" the discrepency further to achieve a more vibrant result. I've always liked the way certain complementaries ("opposites") vibrate next to each other, or even create an "offset" -- an apparent gap or overlap that isn't really there.
An exercise we were given in school was to arrange combinations of four colors of paper, in vertical stripes of various widths, the create "mixtures" of the colors and observe their interreactions. . .
Keep playing! |
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