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

[Owen Taylor]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 22:30, Keith Packard wrote:
> 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.

I know it offends your religious beliefs (;-) but logos do often look
best unhinted. Luxi Sans is also just slightly closer to the original
font then any of the alternate fonts there. (Has a slanted top to
the t, e.g.)

Regards,
						Owen