Wesnoth title logo.

Tux2B · Post by **Tux2B** » August 29th, 2005, 6:55 pm

If I didn't know anything about BFW except that XJAPAN's proposition is the logo, I'd think it's a strategic game in which you have to control units from the future or from the previous century.

XJaPaN · Post by **XJaPaN** » August 29th, 2005, 7:13 pm

I think its to much influence from old console RPG logos

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » August 29th, 2005, 7:21 pm

It hurts my eyes!

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » August 29th, 2005, 8:53 pm

Thanks for the feedback. I really was just focussing on the initial font and typogrophy. Details will come next. I'll try to make the W more unique though.

Here is the Inkscape SVG, EP. Hope to see what you do with it!

Elvish_Pillager · Post by **Elvish_Pillager** » August 29th, 2005, 9:17 pm

Thanks!

1. Bye bye flatness!

2. A subtle trick with the shadows: I took the square root of the reduction of whiteness due to alpha and duplicated it, or in other words, I seperated the shadow into two halves. One of these I moved one or two pixels up and left.
3. Not in .gif format and definitely not so pixelated!
4. The W looks slightly more out of place. I may have changed it accidentally. (not likely though, I think it's just the interaction of the changes with the original shape.)
5. I forgot to apply my changes to that little thingy inside the O. also I converted the text to paths (which in retrospect may not have been necessary. Drat.)

scott · Post by **scott** » August 29th, 2005, 9:22 pm

Well, whatever you managed to do with the T you should do with the W. It's as if you stretched the gradient on the T to accomodate its larger size. As a result it does not get as dark on the edges. For the W it looks like you let the gradient go at the normal rate, which for a larger letter means it will reach a more extreme shade (the blackness).

Edit: or else you just used a different setting for the W than for the other letters.

It almost looks beveled, but it's not. It's pleasing to the eye to see it as beveled, but the illusion is wrecked when you focus in on a certain part of it. What if you did just a straight bevel? You could do it with a pixel program - no need for the logo to be a vector drawing.

Post by **turin** » August 29th, 2005, 10:01 pm

I really like Woodwizzle's proposal. If it can be colored to look good, I think we should use it...

Post by **Darth Fool** » August 29th, 2005, 10:08 pm

Here is my proposal: use the current logo. It is unique and looks pretty good. I don't see the problems with it that many of you have tried to express. Frankly, I think it looks better than any of the proferred replacements. just my $0.02.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » August 29th, 2005, 10:44 pm

Here is the extra text and a different W

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » August 29th, 2005, 10:47 pm

Oh and here is the SVG

Post by **turin** » August 29th, 2005, 10:52 pm

Darth Fool wrote:Here is my proposal: use the current logo. It is unique and looks pretty good. I don't see the problems with it that many of you have tried to express. Frankly, I think it looks better than any of the proferred replacements. just my $0.02.

As I said before, too much random stuff jutting out. It is supposed to look gothic, but fails. It may be unique, but unique != good, necessarily...

Post by **Pickslide** » August 29th, 2005, 10:52 pm

I think its good to try to improve things, everything else is getting overhauled for 1.0.

Here's an entry from me just for fun, on a dark background and a transparant background. I haven't decided how to stick "battle for" in yet.

Everythings on a separate layer, so if the shield doesn't work it can go :P

Post by **turin** » August 29th, 2005, 10:54 pm

I don't think the lion really fits with the rest, but other than that it is pretty good.

I think perhaps the text should be moved to the center of the image, not the bottom half; that, or stick in "the battle for" somewhere.

unsung · Post by **unsung** » August 30th, 2005, 1:55 am

I think you shoul dkeep the style of the text as it is, bu tlayer it ove rsomething, such as the shield.

If you do make a new logo you shoud REALLY put it on a t-shirt because I'm kind of hesitant about buying somethiing with elves (Insert non-existant puking smiley here) on it.
that and make one with a unit from each faction on it.

Woodwizzle · Post by **Woodwizzle** » August 30th, 2005, 4:42 am

unsung wrote: If you do make a new logo you shoud REALLY put it on a t-shirt because I'm kind of hesitant about buying somethiing with elves (Insert non-existant puking smiley here) on it.
that and make one with a unit from each faction on it.

I totally agree here, I want a wesnoth shirt badly but I'm not too keen of the current ones