Forum Logo Contest Thing Maybe!

[Fenris]

THA RULEZZZZ

1) Images must be within 300x125 250 x 110 pixels.

2) Images should be under 75 KB.

3) We'll be cycling through several images for the logo so please provide a version with words and a version without words, so that we may make them all look the same and get an idea of what they'll look like as a finished product.

4) This contest will run about a week or so. Let's say around 12am CST (EST -1) on April 27.

Unofficial Rule 5) Save the logos as a .png for convenience.

e: See here for some updates and amendments.

An example of a proper submission-

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[rpgdemon]

In case someone wants some resources to use for banners, here are some characters I pulled onto transparency, grabbed from the other thread.

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Figure I'll throw in some resources in case there IS gonna be a newly made banner or something.

Warbot! Alone! On transparency!




Wong! With the same words describing it as before!

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

And hey! It's that person who beats up Wong!



This one is admittedly a bit awkward, since she was originally propping herself up, but to have Wong's disembodied head floating there would have been a bit odd.

Edit: Oh yeah, and a banner. Gonna need to shave two pixels off of it, but I'll do that in the morning.

[Viridis]

This stuff can be derivative of stuff from the site (like a comic panel) right, like the ones in that other topic?

Edit: Sorta ninja'd

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Viridis

This stuff can be derivative of stuff from the site (like a comic panel) right, like the ones in that other topic?

Edit: Sorta ninja'd

I'd think that's the idea, rather than having a pastry themed banner. :P

Though, I am totally willing to accept that I'm wrong about this, and make a banner centered around cupcakes or muffins*.

*The non-dragon variety.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

I'd think that's the idea, rather than having a pastry themed banner. :P

Though, I am totally willing to accept that I'm wrong about this, and make a banner centered around cupcakes or muffins..

Dude.


Do this.

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Here's what I came up with briefly as a couple examples (I'll put them in the first post as well.)

[Viridis]

I like your last one.

Needlessly dreary:





Need to find a less-sucky font. And Warbot would be a good bit less depressing in color.


Edit: Pastry! (Beignets, master of all pastry)

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Viridis

I like your last one.

Thanks. I didn't like my font choice in retrospect so I went and did something a little classier.

[synkr0nized]

just an observation for now:

Floating images are akin to banners, like the ads we have at the top of the forum. On the other hand, a logo that blends with the background color or is made to look like it is attached to the background/coming out of it/floating over it/part of it would make for a better entry, in my opinion.

I guess what I am saying, to be more succinct, is give those some closure. Make it truly a part of the forum layout and not just a picture slapped to the top corner.

Were we designing a header or full-width image to span the top of forum pages, though, it'd be open for anything.

[phil_]

I'll re-do my stuff tomorrow. Sleep time is now.

[Meister]

Started doing up some with an universal caption style.