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JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:19 pm

Number 7 has that cool 3D look to it.

One question: is it possible to make the white line and the stuff at the bottom fade off so that the whole box isn't so apparent? With some light fade out, the banner would blend in to the black background. Just a thought.

Turgenev · Post by **Turgenev** » Fri May 04, 2007 5:26 pm

Mythmere wrote:Oohh. #4 is actually too "busy" (the text) once it's actually seen as the title of the forum. Hard to read.

I can see where you're coming from about it being too busy. One suggestion I would make is keep the same font for the capital letters but use a less "fancy" font for the rest of the text.

What if you had the 'Knights & Knaves Alehouse' on the same line? I would make the logo a bit bigger and have it at the top of the page and have the Philosophy 101 text and forum links underneath it. I did a quick mock up to illustrate what I mean...

I also added the white bar to the bottom of the logo to help differentiate the logo from the text.

Cheers,
Tim

Edit: Fixed typo

northrundicandus · Post by **northrundicandus** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:16 am

Interesting Turgenev! I'll have to play around with that.

I've uploaded Mordenkainen's image 8 in the meantime. The white contrast may be too much.

JCBoney · Post by **JCBoney** » Sat May 05, 2007 8:45 am

Actually it looks fine to me.

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:33 am

I like the one that's up at the moment that I'm typing this. Kind of a northmen's rune-like script with a greay k&K watermark-type background.

Mythmere · Post by **Mythmere** » Sat May 05, 2007 9:57 am

TheRedPriest wrote:I like the one that's up at the moment that I'm typing this. Kind of a northmen's rune-like script with a greay k&K watermark-type background.

Me too. In fact, I think with this banner one could actually drop the picture itself.

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Sat May 05, 2007 10:36 am

Mythmere wrote:
TheRedPriest wrote:I like the one that's up at the moment that I'm typing this. Kind of a northmen's rune-like script with a greay k&K watermark-type background.
Me too. In fact, I think with this banner one could actually drop the picture itself.

I kinda like the 'spirit' of the little picture. However, I'd like to have someone scan a better version instead of the PDF-derived pic. Let's face it, the PDF's of the 1e books are HORRIBLE!

Turgenev · Post by **Turgenev** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:16 am

Mordenkainen wrote:I kinda like the 'spirit' of the little picture. However, I'd like to have someone scan a better version instead of the PDF-derived pic. Let's face it, the PDF's of the 1e books are HORRIBLE!

I tried scanning the pic from my DMG but unfortunately the image is near the spine of the book and part of the image comes out all blurred. I'm trying a few tricks to see what I can come up with (short of cutting out the image from my DMG ;p).

Edit for Update: I was able to scan the image at 300 dpi. I hope these will be of some use (the images still need a bit of cleaning up). Here are the urls for download:

http://paratime.ca/images/fantasy/knk_image001.psd
http://paratime.ca/images/fantasy/knk_image001.jpg

Course once you save the logo for the web, it should be at the standard web resolution of 72 dpi.

Cheers,
Tim

TRP · Post by **TRP** » Sat May 05, 2007 11:50 am

Mordenkainen wrote:
Mythmere wrote:
TheRedPriest wrote:I like the one that's up at the moment that I'm typing this. Kind of a northmen's rune-like script with a greay k&K watermark-type background.
Me too. In fact, I think with this banner one could actually drop the picture itself.
I kinda like the 'spirit' of the little picture. However, I'd like to have someone scan a better version instead of the PDF-derived pic. Let's face it, the PDF's of the 1e books are HORRIBLE!

I'm strongly against dropping the drawing.

JRMapes · Post by **JRMapes** » Sat May 05, 2007 1:12 pm

I dont care for the dinking with the contrast in the pic...

now any detail is washed out. it doesnt have character-- it is now just another typical pen and ink drawing.

if you want a black background keep the original scan of the image and hand color the background. that way you dont wash the whole thing our so bad.

nope, dont like it at all.

however the "logo" isn't bad.

Jerry

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Sat May 05, 2007 2:07 pm

Now that I have a nice, scanned image (Thank you kindly, Sir!) I will see what I can do. Stand by...

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Sat May 05, 2007 2:22 pm

The new #8 is up.

northrundicandus · Post by **northrundicandus** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:07 pm

Image changed again.

Feedback?

Turgenev · Post by **Turgenev** » Sat May 05, 2007 3:55 pm

I would darken the blacks on the image to match the top part and the background of the site. Like so...

Cheers,
Tim

Mordenkainen · Post by **Mordenkainen** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:14 pm

Okay. I darkened the background in #8.
I've gotta eat dinner.