JackOfAll wrote: > Noted John's comments about the logo on PCB or front panel. From an > aesthetic point of view, I detest the plain jane 3rd logo. I personally, > don't really go for fussy, but I'd like the logo to have a little more > style about it.
For use on a board what you can do is quite restricted. We have the soldermask color, which can be many different colors, gold (the gold plated copper without the soldermask) and the silkscreen color, which can be either black or white (usually white). The limitations are that the silkscreen can only be applied to soldermask, not to the gold. Using the gold is assuming we have an area where we are not using the metal for signal routes. What can be quite effective is opening up a reactangle of gold and using the soldermask color on top of that to implement the logo, or the opposite, where the logo is implemented as holes in the soldermask which lets the gold show through. It's possible to put soldermask on top of this, but only on top of the soldermask, not the gold. #2 could easily be implemented (except for the shading), but #1 is going to be essentially impossible to come out right. We don't have to have the same logo on the software as on the board and front panel (I'm thinking of using PCBs for the front and back panel, so the same rules would apply there), but it might be nice to keep them sort of similar. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98339 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
