deskthority

Is it available?

(asking it as an official club member )

I'm afraid not. Although it should be easy to recreate in Illustrator and export as svg or whatever you need. Font is Melbourne. Any volunteers? Sixty made the original, I think in Photoshop, but I only have the png.

this would be it, but it's not a 1:1 replica. The original seems to be bold, variant that I wasn't able to find. So I added a thin border to the text losing a bit of character (you can see it from the Y).
Apart from that, it's pretty close. I'll review letter spacing a bit more and post the SVG

I actually prefer this one. That jaggy Y has been nagging me ever since I showed up…

Muirium wrote:I actually prefer this one. That jaggy Y has been nagging me ever since I showed up…

+1 to this (though it looks strange to me in inverted colours!)

sorry, here it is. Original vs new.

Nice. I like the S and the R more now too. And being a very subtle difference, I doubt anyone would notice if this one started showing up in their browser!

I believe this last one has a better kerning, too. I might just reduce the border a subpixel to give some character back to the typeface

If this does become the actual site banner logo (as we're all going to virtual pixels anyway with high DPI displays, so really need vector graphics), what do you think of a super thin black outline around the white, so that it's readable on a wider variety of backgrounds? Because right now, banner photography is as much about making sure the white logo is still readable on your photo as it is about the content.

there's a very simple code I use on other projects that basically detects the contrast of a background and returns "black" or "white" as color to be used as foreground. Maybe that would be a nice touch.

Also a very very light drop shadow around the logo might help in readability.

Looks great.

Stop the press! I found the bold version! updating...

I found the unicorn vomit version! upthrowing...

Test on light background
hairline

drop shadow

flat

Erhem:
melbourne/licensing


Maybe we should better use a free font.

· Create and print documents, as well as static images (.jpeg, .tiff, .png), even if the images are used on the web or in a mobile app.

pretty much covered

Awesome work, matt3o. Can you create a vector DT legend like the one used on the key cap below? Maybe at some point we can have SP make a doubleshot SA key with it.

If it ever did come down to a replacement font, here's some promising open ones, via the Google Fonts repo, which catch my eye.

Heavy: Narrow: Really Narrow: Light: And then perhaps the most fitting of our image: For comparison's sake:

There you go:
Please see this for final version.

Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

Go on, go on go on GO ON! Make sure to put it inside something I already ordered…

7bit wrote:Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

Make it so!

7bit wrote:Now, should I add a DT key to Round 5?

Yes!

It's almost identical except the letter spacing of the original is more compressed.

I tried a lower case version once, which I think looks more friendly, but I didn't like Melbourne's lower case e.

These kits contain a row 1 and a row 3 key:
HONEY/DT/GREY
HONEY/DT/WHITE
HONEY/DT/RED
HONEY/DT/BLACK
But someone must make the SVG and discuss with SP the details of that key. I can't do it.

Awesome. You guys rock. I can work it out with SP if it can wait until Wednesday. Been through the process once before and it wasn't hard. If anyone else wants to make a go for it, that's cool too.

I think I've seen your prior work:

webwit wrote:It's almost identical except the letter spacing of the original is more compressed.

I tried a lower case version once, which I think looks more friendly, but I didn't like Melbourne's lower case e.

my version is more readable

well anyway at least it's svg now, compressing shouldn't be a problem

Muirium wrote:I think I've seen your prior work:

nope. Those are engraved QWERkeys caps. IC thread here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... t3209.html
poll here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... t3233.html
hashbaz did the svg here:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... tml#p68615
then the whole thing got stuck over a group buy organizer and then Sleabo/ Qwerkeys just started production on their own:
http://deskthority.net/deskthority-rela ... tml#p74819

Muirium wrote:I think I've seen your prior work

I rendered the vim logo as a key cap SVG. I tried to follow their rules but in the end, Melissa from SP said it was too big overall. They scaled it down 20% and said it would be fine, even though I think that would have made some of the lines too narrow.

Here are the instructions. They were posted on GH a while ago but may not have survived the big hack. Edit: I found the original thread. Of course it was from 7bit!