Hey Bernhard, all, sorry for not having repsonded so far. I'll try to answer more in time in future. I've added a third alternative where both f's have the same shape (note however, that I had to cap the first f so that the upper tip does not collide with the next f. If I had just copied the second one it would have looked really ugly - I'm sure you realize that, I just thought I should mention it). I think having the same curvature for both fs is indeed the way to go. I'll keep that in mind for the final design. Another thing I tried was to have equal spacing for all three letters - which does not look good. Bernhard, you said that the "i" is lighter than the "f" and therefore could be moved to the left - that is exactly what I have done in the previous examples, although it seems as if I forgot to mention it. I added a note on that on the wiki. So equal spacing: not good. Even spacing: good. The other thing I tried was to incorporate the suggestion of my friend ( http://tinyurl.com/6x7fyg7) which looked even worse than without any ligature.
2011/2/28 Bernhard Dippold <bernh...@familie-dippold.at> > It looks different from the original Vegur "f", but a slightly stronger > bending doesn't harm the general impression in my eyes. > Since the Vegur font has no ligatures the ligatures will look different from the normal letters anyway. I try and match them as good as I can. Also, it seems to me that there are currently two open threads in the design list. I try to merge them ^^: 2011/3/1 Paulo José <paul...@gmail.com> > > *The Ligatures*: I think the ligatures in the "fi" letters was a very > welcome surprise. It's true they remember a serifed font, but I personally > love the way you put this serifed feeling on the LibO logo! I think it makes > the logo very particular and organic. I don't see any reason to don't mix > serif and sans-serif font when it's obviously look intentional and well > done. > @Paulo: thanks for your positive comments. I know this is personal taste but since everyone told me it would look like a serifed font I stopped thinking about it. But now that you say you like it, I must say that I agree. All alternatives to the one I first did (just for reference: http://tinyurl.com/63ku3mw) look more nervous because there are more gaps and more open tips. Since I got so little (in terms of different people) feedback on this I'd like to ask others to give their opinion on the logos. Just a short "looks good/doesn't look good" would be really great. I'll also try and ask some friends of mine. > *Manual kerning*: Well, I'm not the right person to talk about it, but I'm > not sure if it's worth, since you can ever make use of a sharpening filter > for images. But the changes you've done on the letters shape are a great > improvement and make the things much... sexy [I can't find a better > adjective]. A note: It seems the "D" on Document has not a correct kerning, > but like I've said, it could be easily adjusted with a sharpening filter. > What do you mean with "sharpening filter"? I agree that the sharp corners on the logo were a bad idea. Let's forget about them ^^. Thanks, Joey -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to design+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
