[SLUG] A miniscule bit of progress with the graphic design spec

[Jamie Adams]

Al Girling wrote:

>On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:35:21AM BST, John Allsopp wrote:
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>>>On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:02:56AM BST, John Allsopp wrote:
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>>>>The logo's good though, so I've taken that and turned it into this
>>>><http://www.johnallsopp.co.uk/slug/logo.gif>, which seems OK unless
>>>>y'all think otherwise.
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>>>Not trying to steal your thunder, but had my first attempt with
>>>Inkscape
>>>which proved remarkably easy to convert your image to a .svg file.
>>>I've
>>>put a .png created from that here:
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>>>http://al.sdf-eu.org/tmp/slug-logo1.png
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>>>You can have the .svg file if you wish.
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>>That looks distorted, elongated in the vertical plane, to me. Also, on
>>the logo I was suggesting I'd added a single line of grey pixels to
>>give a retro shadow look, which isn't there in the Inkscape one. Also
>>I didn't use black, since the logo on the website is grey, I used, I
>>think, 51, 51, 51.
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>>But, Al, I tried to install Inkscape (for about ten minutes) and
>>couldn't quite be bothered considering it's probably in this new
>>machine I haven't yet installed, so if you can get the distortion
>>sorted and provide it as a fairly big png, I can add that shadow back
>>in really easily and get the grey sorted.
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>Fair enough John.  It was only a quick attempt because the image you
>posted had really jagged steps on the curves.  I've posted another quick
>effort to the same URL, but again it needs more work to straighten out
>as I've introduced more steps myself which I'm unhappy with.
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>I'm trying to get a whole host of things working at the moment, but will
>try again soon.
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>Al
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I'll try to find the original font that I used, that might ease your 
design headaches. I think SVG is the way to go though.

Jamie