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New logo! Just wanted to say I think it looks a little too much like a nine...
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New logo! Just wanted to say I think it looks a little too much like a nine...
I was shooting for something that resembled an abstract version of a "G".. very flowy, curvy.. almost not a G at all. Throwing another plain "G" into a circle didn't sit well with me but I have to recognize the history of it. I can see what you are saying though.
I wanted the text "gamedev.net" to be bigger and more clear so I went with droid sans and increased the height of the font.
Yeah, not a big fan of the change. Granted the old 'G' is getting borderline antique, but this is a little too abstract -- If you took away the text, I'd have never made the assiciation, even with the familiar blue circle, and I've been here probably nearly as long as anyone. It's too loose, what's it suppose to be? Is it a '9'? a sloppy 'S'? An upside-down 5?
Yeah, not a big fan of the change. Granted the old 'G' is getting borderline antique, but this is a little too abstract -- If you took away the text, I'd have never made the assiciation, even with the familiar blue circle, and I've been here probably nearly as long as anyone. It's too loose, what's it suppose to be? Is it a '9'? a sloppy 'S'? An upside-down 5?
The letter "G"
For fun, maybe you should change the text and banners to say, "NineDev.net".
The "G" does look like something between a "9" and a Dothraki sword. :P
Changing topic from the shape of the glyph... The range of colours gave the old icon a lot more depth as well. It had shadows as well as highlights, using a range of blues, and also a more complex shape to the background gradient rather than a straight bar. It's a subtle difference, but IMO it made the old one look a lot more professional.
Changing topic from the shape of the glyph... The range of colours gave the old icon a lot more depth as well. It had shadows as well as highlights, using a range of blues, and also a more complex shape to the background gradient rather than a straight bar. It's a subtle difference, but IMO it made the old one look a lot more professional.
The web 2.0 shiny button effect?
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Yeah having both enlarged side-by-side, the difference is that generic "shiny button effect"
When I wrote the last post, I was going by memory and didn't even remember that the old logo did use this effect though, I just noticed that there wasn't shadow/midtone/highlight any more, only midtone/highlight -- that's the actual issue I meant to raise.
The shiny button effect itself isn't necessary, but to break down what it does in the old logo -- the "half moon" section at the bottom of the circle becomes the shadow part, with the rest of the circle being the mid-tone, then a circular highlight is applied over both. It's not that particular configuration of shapes that I remembered, just the fact that it used a palette of 3 colours in the effect.
Even the outer ring of the old one has a shadow at the bottom right to add some depth by contrasting against the brighter top half of the centre circle.
There's also a subtle hue change between the two logos (the new one is much more green/teal than the old one), and the choice to have the glyph cut through the outer ring.
[edit] Also, the new one's centre circle isn't exactly centred, with the width of the white void differing in places, and the circles aren't anti-aliased as well (in both high and low res this is noticeable).