Luis Felipe López Acevedo <felipe.lo...@openmailbox.org> writes: > El sáb, 14-02-2015 a las 19:18 -0500, Mark H Weaver escribió: >> The drop shadow that you added here defeats the illusion of the >> 3-dimensional twist that makes earlier renditions of this logo so >> compelling. It ends up looking flat. Any ideas how this could be >> improved? > > Thanks for pointing that out, Mark. I agree with you. I spent too much > time in front of that logo, so it is hard for me to notice those details > sometimes.
[...] > http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/static/temp/img/guixsd/C-grub-retouched-twist.png > > I think it looks better. But here is a D variant which includes the > retouched twist of C and adds a drop shadow: > > http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/static/temp/img/guixsd/D-grub-retouched-drop-shadow.png > > This shadow is more subtle than the one used in the current GRUB image, > but it may still flatten the logo because it is bevelled. > > I like C and D, but would go with C to avoid the problem you mention. > > What do you think? Thank you, both C and D are a great improvement. I would be happy with either of them, but here's what I would suggest to combine the best of both: starting with C, add a different kind of shadow from what you did in D. In D, it looks as though you added a low-opacity black layer on top, which results in highlights on the top edge and a shadow on the bottom. Instead, I would try adding a larger, feathered (i.e. fuzzy-edged) shadow in the *bottom* layer, closer to what you did in your recently proposed orange-on-black SLiM theme in the right half of this image: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/pngMImBoTqdbR.png (from https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-02/msg00395.html) though maybe not quite so large a shadow as that one. So, there would be no highlights on top, but rather just a fuzzy shadow underneath. What do you think? Would you like to try it? Thanks again for your beautiful work :) Mark