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11 Jan 2014, 16:24
Is it available?
(asking it as an official club member
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11 Jan 2014, 16:55
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 17:39
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).
![deskthority.png](./download/file.php?id=10840&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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Apart from that, it's pretty close. I'll review letter spacing a bit more and post the SVG
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11 Jan 2014, 17:42
I actually prefer this one. That jaggy Y has been nagging me ever since I showed up…
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11 Jan 2014, 17:42
Muirium wrote: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!)
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11 Jan 2014, 17:46
sorry, here it is. Original vs new.
![deskthority.png](./download/file.php?id=10841&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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11 Jan 2014, 17:51
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!
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11 Jan 2014, 17:54
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
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11 Jan 2014, 18:05
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 18:09
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 18:21
Stop the press! I found the bold version! updating...
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11 Jan 2014, 18:31
I found the unicorn vomit version! upthrowing...
![dtuv.png](./download/file.php?id=10842&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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11 Jan 2014, 18:36
Test on light background
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hairline
drop shadow
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11 Jan 2014, 18:58
Erhem:
melbourne/licensing
Maybe we should better use a free font.
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
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11 Jan 2014, 19:02
· 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
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11 Jan 2014, 20:19
Awesome work, matt3o.
![Smile :)](./images/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif)
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 20:43
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:
![Anton.png](./download/file.php?id=10845&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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![Squada One.png](./download/file.php?id=10854&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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![Oswald.png](./download/file.php?id=10844&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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Narrow:
![Crushed.png](./download/file.php?id=10849&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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![Bench Nine.png](./download/file.php?id=10848&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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Really Narrow:
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Light:
![Overclock.png](./download/file.php?id=10851&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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![Anaheim.png](./download/file.php?id=10847&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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And then perhaps the most fitting of our image:
![Smythe.png](./download/file.php?id=10852&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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For comparison's sake:
![Rum Raisin.png](./download/file.php?id=10855&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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11 Jan 2014, 20:57
There you go:
![deskthority.png](./download/file.php?id=10856&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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Please
see this for final version.
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11 Jan 2014, 21:03
Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?
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11 Jan 2014, 21:06
Go on, go on go on GO ON!
Make sure to put it inside something I already ordered…
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11 Jan 2014, 21:45
7bit wrote:Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?
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Make it so!
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11 Jan 2014, 21:47
7bit wrote:Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?
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Yes!
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11 Jan 2014, 21:53
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 22:20
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 22:35
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.
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11 Jan 2014, 23:09
I think I've seen your prior work:
![Image](http://deskthority.net/resources/image/10359)
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11 Jan 2014, 23:39
webwit wrote: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
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12 Jan 2014, 00:34
Muirium wrote: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.
![instructions.png](./download/file.php?id=10858&sid=badac47a3da30fa3303502699c1fcc21)
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Edit: I found the
original thread. Of course it was from 7bit!
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