[Clipart] Logo, blue on blue.

[Alan Horkan]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:32:56 +0300
> From: Nicu Buculei <nicu at apsro.com>
> To: clipart at freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] Logo, blue on blue.
>
> Alan Horkan wrote:
> > On Sun, 26 Sep 2004, Glenn Randers-Pehrson wrote:
> [...]
> >>The curved edges of the photo and of the black shadow look quite ragged
> >>to me in the GIF compared to the PNG.
> >
> >
> > the edges are a bit ragged and getting the GIF to look better is less easy
> > and would require some pixel editing but if it were my graphic I'd do it.
> >
> > unlike your example the clipart logo has a relatively dark (navy blue)
> > background so the black edges would not be as noticable.
>
> i made a mockup of how the logo will look with single color
> transparency: the image is bearable but the text is horrible (and i
> don't think pixel editing will improve it much)

Okay, I'm wrong again.

the 1x1 pixel background image would seem to be the better solution (as it
avoids the issue of transparency and doesn't require any tricks to fix
Internet Explorer).

- Alan