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I made a new logo!

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QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

MAJOR EDIT: Third version logos and all their variations are here!

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

It needs to fit inside a 135 x 135px box, but otherwise, me like.

Well, unless you want it to replace the image currently on the front pag, not the actual logo.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Actually, I did want to replace the image on the front page.

Still, here's a 135px version.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Awesome. If you can make a version of the first image without the subtitling, I'll be happy to replace the current version.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Isn't there some sort of tagline you want for the website, though? Something which says to people, "Hey, we've got a site mission, we're more focused than TV Tropes, and we have much more promise for quality content!" ?

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Well, our default is "the wiki with all the tropes", because we basically aren't throwing anything out for censorship reasons, since TV Tropes had to get rid of several long established tropes simply for offending Google Ads.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Alright, how about this?

If you don't like that, here's one without the tagline. (Although you totally could have just taken the image, gone into Paint, cropped it, and reuploaded it yourself. :P)

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

I love the one with new tagline, will be using it.

Also, thanks for the alt version as well.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

:D

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Here's some more graphics for the front page.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Thanks, have added those as well.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Actually, those need to be in full size. I purposely made them the exact same dimensions as the original red, green, and blue headers they replace. If they're not at full size, then it doesn't look good.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

The problem is that they don't scale well at all to the section dividers, hence my resizing.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Hm. In that case, can you revert the change? I don't think it looks very good.

Labster (talkcontribs)

Ew, no. The graphic design is good, but I spend way too much time making fun of people who think "tropes == story legos".

This is on the front page already? I think... I'm gonna leave the wiki for a while.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Well I wish other people would give me suggestions for what graphics to use, rather than simply complain and leave. Because I can design something else.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Okay, I've got a better idea then. Replace the lego block with an infinity symbol.

Represents our goal (no limits on what we can talk about), and avoids the Unfortunate Implications brought up by Vorticity.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I'll get it done when I have time. Promise.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Oh, and when you get a chance, please replace the sections of code where you inserted my graphics with the following.

About This Wiki
Differences From the Competition
Other Sites We Recommend

It roughly matches the color scheme of my header graphics.

Labster (talkcontribs)

Sorry if it made it look like that was targeted at you, QS. It was targeted at Geth who should have known better. LEGOs are a trigger warning for me with regards to tropes, since so much of the criticism about troping wikis in general is that the storytelling coming out of our wikizens tends to be formulaic and disjointed. And that simply assembling tropes together does not make for good storytelling. The Mechanics of Writing section is supposed to address a lot of that, once it gets going.

Anyway, yeah, our current logo is not amazing, if for no other reason than both of our early contributors made draft logos, and then never found the time/interest to revive them.

@Geth: For some reason, I think we should have an infinity symbol in a black star. That is to say, different Unfortunate Implications, because it totally seems like a villain thing to do. Maybe we are the villains -- Fighteer seems to think so.

I think the only ideas we had in the the old thread centered around skeuomorphism around media types -- books, film reels, projectors, boob tubes, comic paperbacks, anime magical girl wands, tabletop gaming swords, etc. The only other idea is to choose something more abstract, like the bike circle logo of Davis Wiki, or the multiple crescent moons of JQuery. Sorry, but I'm not much help on those ideas.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

"Maybe we are the villains -- Fighteer seems to think so."

To that end, I've been designing all my graphics with a orange-and-blue color scheme. TV Tropes has something like that here and there, but it hardly stands out. On the other hand, I think giving the wiki this color scheme throughout...

Like this

...would not only give it some personality, but also be more soothing to the eyes, like parchment.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

One, I apologize. I had a total derp moment and totally forgot about the lego thing. It's my Berserk Button too.

In that case, I went full retard and have no excuse for it. My apologies to everyone for that.

As for the color scheme, interesting idea. It's a soft color that won't clash with too much and looks really nice. QS, I also added those dividers to the front page.

As for us being villains, Fighteer has no idea how many LOLs I've gotten over his belief we're evil incarnate, so yeah, it might be lulzy to have the most evil looking logo ever.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Hey, remember when I said I was going to make a second new logo, and then I never got around to doing it?

Well I finally did it.

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

That is totes cool.

However, I'll wait for other people to chip in their two cent, lest I go full retard again. ~.~

Labster (talkcontribs)

Okay I like that more than I thought I would. It's too Art Deco to look like it's from Supervillain Heavy Industries. And I like Art Deco.

Will that fit in the right spot (@Geth) -- and can we have a 2x resolution (therefore 4x size) image for highres displays (@QS)?

GethN7 (talkcontribs)

Yeah, it'll fit the main page, too large for the upper left site logo.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I'll have to make the logo from scratch if you want 4x size. Which will probably take a whole 'nother month, knowing my work ethic. :/

But I can make an upper left logo easily.

Labster (talkcontribs)

Really, 2x. I just meant the file's size would be 4x, due to the number of pixels. And just 2x of the upper left logo's size.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Check the top post of this thread for all logo variations.

Labster (talkcontribs)

Cool. But at 1x the H and E in THE run together a bit too close. Could you try kerning the last letter to the right, enough to get a sliver of white between them?

Maybe just a problem to my eye, use your own judgement.

John (talkcontribs)

Overwriting the file should update the logo automatically so overwrite it; do what you want and be nice by avoiding extra work for me :)

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I can see the spacing between the H and the E easily. If anything, the T and H seem too close.

Not that it matters, since I keep trying to upload new versions, and they end up looking identical once uploaded.

Labster (talkcontribs)

oh yeah... the image cache. damn.

What's the original file format in, anyway? The edges look a bit too sharp, and we were wondering if we could play around with the export a bit.

QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

I made this entirely in GIMP. Unfortunately, I don't know how to vector. But the next-best thing I can provide is a super large version of both icons, which you can find a way to shrink down properly.

Alternatively, is there some way I could send you .xcf files?

Labster (talkcontribs)

Um, by sending me an .xcf file? If you can't upload it on the site, my contact info is on ATT:Contact us. Email works.

By the way, your logo has basically been inspiring my other site design. I was thinking about lightening the blue of the {{trope}}/{{work}} templates, but then I saw that what we already have matches the logo (which may be by design?). Now I'm thinking about incorporating more Orange-Blue Contrast into the site design because hey, it's a trope that works.

Also, try Inkscape, which is the vector equivalent of GIMP. I've done a bit of work in it, it doesn't seem too bad.

Robkelk (talkcontribs)
QuestionableSanity (talkcontribs)

Yes, that's fine. I don't have any strong attachment to that logo anymore.

Lequinni (talkcontribs)

Now we need a new favicon to override the miraheze one

Looney Toons (talkcontribs)

We should be able to shrink the infinity symbol down to one... I wonder if we could put a legible "ATT" above or over it.