[OpenFontLibrary] Relaunch Status?

[Jon Phillips]

I agree, I really like this logo. It is a real advancement on the
previous. It stands up in b/w and is original. Great work! I really like
the layout of it as proposed for the new site too...I think good to
adopt it with the redesign!

I can see t-shirts a plenty with this cool logo on it!

Jon

On Sat, 2009-01-17 at 15:50 +0000, James Weiner wrote:
> I have to say I really like Robert's logo! despite the angle of the F  
> feeling a little odd at first I think it works for me because it's  
> different and interesting.
> 
> I think I'm happy with it although maybe seeing some other examples of  
> perhaps more exciting font usage would be good to see.
> 
> I'm not sure the logo needs to put across ALL the different things  
> OFLB is trying to do - I think that logo is as effective as the OFLB  
> name.
> 
> Ben and others - your thoughts?
> 
> James
> 
> On 17 Jan 2009, at 15:36, Robert Martinez wrote:
> 
> > Dave Crossland wrote:
> >> 2009/1/16 Robert Martinez <mail at mray.de>:
> >>
> >>> I made this for the last contest (but wayyy too late), and after  
> >>> browsing
> >>> the amazing new page I fiddled around again:
> >>>
> >>> http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary.png
> >>>
> >>
> >> I like it although the font used in the F isn't quite right, the
> >> perspective transformation doesn't do it well... but I think it could
> >> work nicely if the character in the middle was different, such as an
> >> extended latin :-)
> >>
> >> James and Ben Weiner did the graphic redesign, so I hope they can  
> >> comment.
> >>
> >>
> > I'm very interested in what they think, too.
> > Their look is the key - the logo should fit.
> >
> > Concerning the choice for the "f" -  it represents the "f"ont, where  
> > the  book beneath it is the "open library" part of openfontlibrary.
> > because of that I would prefer not to use a more sexy but unrelated  
> > charater.
> >
> > The transformation is a 30° skew, exactly like the book. That indeed  
> > gives the letter more "surface" than an actual rotation in a  
> > isometric space.
> > So I tried bold semi-condensed, wich works much better :)
> >
> > http://freegital.de/sites/freegital.de/files/openfontlibrary2.png
> >
> >
> >
> 
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