FWIW, I like the idea/reckon it's worth a revisit. I'd shy away from equipping the dwarves with weapons/combat imagery - maybe a smithy's hammer (or pickaxe) would be more suitable for tooling? (this sort of thing: https://www.kctool.com/picard-1c-blacksmiths-hammer-with-ash-handle-1800g/ - has a simple/clear outline, square on one end, tapered on the other)
As for version-specific logos, as fun as it might be, practically I'd be happy to settle on a consistent way to render versions - putting a number in the upper right corner, perhaps (have the dwarf hold the tool in their right hand, so would appear on the left of the image - or swap version/tool around as folks see fit). In general my personal font choice is more around example (4), but the thick/sturdy-ness of (2) is probably more in keeping with the theme. On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 2:44 PM Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss <dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote: > > It has been kind of tense around here for a while; let's have some fun. > > The DWARF logo is quite old. There are many problems with it as a logo. > > It is a png and though there appears to be several versions of it at > different sizes it is a raster and so it doesn't scale well > The image itself looks scanned and then colored. This leads to some built in > aliasing on a pixel level which show up badly when printed. > The color choices are not really ideal for printing and if we were going to > use it on anything other than on a web page like a shirt or a sticker there > would be problems. > If you look at it up close, it is not really clear. > > I could probably go on and if people would like additional justification I > will but with the new administration and the push to DWARF6, I think that we > should consider a new logo. My wife happens to be a graphic designer > https://cyansamone.com/ and one of the things that she does is logo design. > When she came into my office and the DWARF5 standard was up on my screen and > she cringed for about the 50'th time at the logo, I asked her to put together > some ideas. In a few minutes, she came up with some options. > http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_logo_1.png > > The fonts (all free as in beer) and images are mix and match and any other > ideas are more than welcome. They are vector art and so they can be scaled. > This was just a quick mockup. > > I also thought it might be fun to have a DWARF6 specific logo that we could > put on tools as they become capable of handling the new version of the > standard. Another idea that I had but she hasn't drawn yet is the 6 dwarves > chasing a bug. She said that drawing that would take more than the 5 minutes > she had at the moment because she would have to figure out what the dwarves > look like in profile. http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_6_draft.png > > Yeah I know that it isn't the most important thing in the world of DWARF but > in relation to all the other miscellany that needed to change, I thought that > we should toss this on the list. > > -ben > > > > -- > Dwarf-discuss mailing list > Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org > https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss -- Dwarf-discuss mailing list Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss
