On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:54:59AM +0200, Laurens Van Houtven wrote: > Yep, sorry, I realise the flag is based on an exclusively American symbol. > OTOH, I'm not (very) American so it still rings bell for me :-)
I'm not American at all, and I think it's hilarious. > About the apostrophe: yes, the reason it is currently missing is because it > is missing on the Gadsen flag. That's also the reason the t-shirt is yellow. > I'm getting mixed feedback on how important mimicing the Gadsen flag is, in > terms of: > - typeface (this is Cardo 99 SIL. Printing on T-shirts occasionally has > problems with small, thin serifs on serif fonts.) I notice that Wikipedia's "Gadsden Flag" page includes a scan from an 1885 school-book that includes a reproduction of said flag, and it definitely uses a sans-serif typeface. Like most visual designs that have been drawn and redrawn thousands of times by hundreds of people over the centuries, I suspect a little variance is permissible. > - color (although I like it because it's a Python-related shirt, and yellow > isn't my favorite color) The common ingredients of a Gadsden Flag reference seem to be "yellow", "snake" and the slogan; given how much the Twisted Matrix logo resembles the traditional rattlesnake (i.e. not very much) keeping the colour and the slogan close to the original seems important. > - apostrophe (authenticity vs correctness - fortunately it's just a lexer > problem in "don't" and not the far more expensive parser problems of > your/you're/there/their/they're) I see somebody tried to add an apostrophe to the SVG version of the flag on Wikipedia, which was quickly reverted (sadly without a rationale or citation). A Google Image Search for "DONT TREAD ON ME" shows that both with-apostrophe and without-apostrophe variants are common, but the ones without seem more... authentic somehow. Enough bike-shedding? :) _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python