That 'vision' thing (Tuomas has a logo proposal)

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Nov 5 05:30:33 EET 2003


Around 2 o'clock on Nov 5, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:

> It could be slightly larger though, maybe like 400 pixels or so. But I
> think it looks nice.

Ok.  I was matching the previous text-only "logo" size, but a larger logo 
matches the old text size.

I've made some samples using vera instead of gadget; while the gadget font 
has a strong visual appeal in this application, I'm wondering if it would 
be nice to be able to use the same font in the logo and throughout the web 
site.

	http://freedesktop.org/~keithp/logo-samples.html

One problem we've discovered with Gadget is that it is not well hinted, so 
you get weird rendering artifacts if you don't hit one of the few sweet 
pixel sizes (note the 'k' in the sample provided).  We can obviously pick 
a better size for the site logo, but that still leaves it looking ugly in 
other environments, making it unsuitable for use within the web pages.

-keith





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