FWIW, the "master" in the DWARF .git distro is an .eps file not .png--not that that really matters. I don't know where it came from other than Michael gave it to me to use. The .eps does contain some Copyright lines, namely % Copyright (c)1992-98 Corel Corporation % All rights reserved. v8.0 r0.15 I suspect it came out of some WordPerfect sample graphics selection which he tweaked for DWARF use--my speculation.
None of which really addresses the question of replacing it. I am OK with considering a replacement but not eager to spend much time on it. I don't much care for any of the quickie examples offered by Ben. The stylized DWARF is no fun and certainly doesn't look like a DWARF. The others are too much text and not enough little guy. And I agree with David that the Dwarf should be holding a tool (the suggestion of a blacksmith hammer is cool) and not a weapon. Such are my thoughts at the moment... Ron On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 1:52 PM David Blaikie via Dwarf-discuss < dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote: > FWIW, I like the idea/reckon it's worth a revisit. > > I'd shy away from equipping the dwarves with weapons/combat imagery - > maybe a smithy's hammer (or pickaxe) would be more suitable for > tooling? (this sort of thing: > https://www.kctool.com/picard-1c-blacksmiths-hammer-with-ash-handle-1800g/ > - has a simple/clear outline, square on one end, tapered on the other) > > As for version-specific logos, as fun as it might be, practically I'd > be happy to settle on a consistent way to render versions - putting a > number in the upper right corner, perhaps (have the dwarf hold the > tool in their right hand, so would appear on the left of the image - > or swap version/tool around as folks see fit). > > In general my personal font choice is more around example (4), but the > thick/sturdy-ness of (2) is probably more in keeping with the theme. > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 2:44 PM Ben Woodard via Dwarf-discuss > <dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote: > > > > It has been kind of tense around here for a while; let's have some fun. > > > > The DWARF logo is quite old. There are many problems with it as a logo. > > > > It is a png and though there appears to be several versions of it at > different sizes it is a raster and so it doesn't scale well > > The image itself looks scanned and then colored. This leads to some > built in aliasing on a pixel level which show up badly when printed. > > The color choices are not really ideal for printing and if we were going > to use it on anything other than on a web page like a shirt or a sticker > there would be problems. > > If you look at it up close, it is not really clear. > > > > I could probably go on and if people would like additional justification > I will but with the new administration and the push to DWARF6, I think that > we should consider a new logo. My wife happens to be a graphic designer > https://cyansamone.com/ and one of the things that she does is logo > design. When she came into my office and the DWARF5 standard was up on my > screen and she cringed for about the 50'th time at the logo, I asked her to > put together some ideas. In a few minutes, she came up with some options. > http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_logo_1.png > > > > The fonts (all free as in beer) and images are mix and match and any > other ideas are more than welcome. They are vector art and so they can be > scaled. This was just a quick mockup. > > > > I also thought it might be fun to have a DWARF6 specific logo that we > could put on tools as they become capable of handling the new version of > the standard. Another idea that I had but she hasn't drawn yet is the 6 > dwarves chasing a bug. She said that drawing that would take more than the > 5 minutes she had at the moment because she would have to figure out what > the dwarves look like in profile. > http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_6_draft.png > > > > Yeah I know that it isn't the most important thing in the world of DWARF > but in relation to all the other miscellany that needed to change, I > thought that we should toss this on the list. > > > > -ben > > > > > > > > -- > > Dwarf-discuss mailing list > > Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org > > https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss > -- > Dwarf-discuss mailing list > Dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org > https://lists.dwarfstd.org/mailman/listinfo/dwarf-discuss >
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