Vector Deskthority Logo

[matt3o]

Is it available?

(asking it as an official club member )

[webwit]

I'm afraid not. Although it should be easy to recreate in Illustrator and export as svg or whatever you need. Font is Melbourne. Any volunteers? Sixty made the original, I think in Photoshop, but I only have the png.

[matt3o]

this would be it, but it's not a 1:1 replica. The original seems to be bold, variant that I wasn't able to find. So I added a thin border to the text losing a bit of character (you can see it from the Y).

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Apart from that, it's pretty close. I'll review letter spacing a bit more and post the SVG

[Muirium]

I actually prefer this one. That jaggy Y has been nagging me ever since I showed up…

[scottc]

I actually prefer this one. That jaggy Y has been nagging me ever since I showed up…

+1 to this (though it looks strange to me in inverted colours!)

[matt3o]

sorry, here it is. Original vs new.

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[Muirium]

Nice. I like the S and the R more now too. And being a very subtle difference, I doubt anyone would notice if this one started showing up in their browser!

[matt3o]

I believe this last one has a better kerning, too. I might just reduce the border a subpixel to give some character back to the typeface

[Muirium]

If this does become the actual site banner logo (as we're all going to virtual pixels anyway with high DPI displays, so really need vector graphics), what do you think of a super thin black outline around the white, so that it's readable on a wider variety of backgrounds? Because right now, banner photography is as much about making sure the white logo is still readable on your photo as it is about the content.

[matt3o]

there's a very simple code I use on other projects that basically detects the contrast of a background and returns "black" or "white" as color to be used as foreground. Maybe that would be a nice touch.

Also a very very light drop shadow around the logo might help in readability.

[scottc]

Looks great.

[matt3o]

Stop the press! I found the bold version! updating...

[Soarer]

I found the unicorn vomit version! upthrowing...

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[matt3o]

Test on light background

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hairline

drop shadow

flat

[7bit]

Erhem:
melbourne/licensing


Maybe we should better use a free font.

[matt3o]

· Create and print documents, as well as static images (.jpeg, .tiff, .png), even if the images are used on the web or in a mobile app.

pretty much covered

[mtl]

Awesome work, matt3o. Can you create a vector DT legend like the one used on the key cap below? Maybe at some point we can have SP make a doubleshot SA key with it.

[Muirium]

If it ever did come down to a replacement font, here's some promising open ones, via the Google Fonts repo, which catch my eye.

Heavy:

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Narrow:

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Really Narrow:

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Light:

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And then perhaps the most fitting of our image:

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For comparison's sake:

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[matt3o]

There you go:

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Please see this for final version.

[7bit]

Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

[Muirium]

Go on, go on go on GO ON!

Make sure to put it inside something I already ordered…

[scottc]

Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

Make it so!

[rindorbrot]

Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

Yes!

[webwit]

It's almost identical except the letter spacing of the original is more compressed.

I tried a lower case version once, which I think looks more friendly, but I didn't like Melbourne's lower case e.

[7bit]

These kits contain a row 1 and a row 3 key:
HONEY/DT/GREY
HONEY/DT/WHITE
HONEY/DT/RED
HONEY/DT/BLACK
But someone must make the SVG and discuss with SP the details of that key. I can't do it.

[mtl]

Awesome. You guys rock. I can work it out with SP if it can wait until Wednesday. Been through the process once before and it wasn't hard. If anyone else wants to make a go for it, that's cool too.

[Muirium]

I think I've seen your prior work:

[matt3o]

It's almost identical except the letter spacing of the original is more compressed.

I tried a lower case version once, which I think looks more friendly, but I didn't like Melbourne's lower case e.

my version is more readable

well anyway at least it's svg now, compressing shouldn't be a problem

[kint]

I think I've seen your prior work:

nope. Those are engraved QWERkeys caps. IC thread here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... t3209.html
poll here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... t3233.html
hashbaz did the svg here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... tml#p68615
then the whole thing got stuck over a group buy organizer and then Sleabo/ Qwerkeys just started production on their own:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... tml#p74819

[mtl]

I think I've seen your prior work

I rendered the vim logo as a key cap SVG. I tried to follow their rules but in the end, Melissa from SP said it was too big overall. They scaled it down 20% and said it would be fine, even though I think that would have made some of the lines too narrow.

Here are the instructions. They were posted on GH a while ago but may not have survived the big hack.

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Edit: I found the original thread. Of course it was from 7bit!