Re: [AD] New Logo Proposal

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On 2010-12-21, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> 
> So I just found Allegro yesterday (Allegro5 to be exact) after a month 
> long adventure with SDL.  The main reason I ignored Allegro in the past 
> is that it a) looked back then quite inactive, from the DOS day and it 
> has a hideous logo.

On the web site?

> That might sound weird, but keep in mind how many people judge things 
> that way.  It's like when you buy a book and you have no idea what 
> you're looking for.  In that case title and cover play a really 
> important role.
> 
> Anyways.  Allegro5 is really a huge improvement over SDL from what I can 
> see so far and I'm currently in the process of switching over to it.  I 
> thought I might be able to contribute something and did some playing 
> around with creating a new logo that looks a little bit more timeless 
> (the current one looks straight from 1995).
> 
>  From what I've heard on the IRC channel I'm not the first to bring up a 
> logo proposal, so I am well prepared for that thing not being considered 
> as logo replacement.  However if you do want modifications, I am happy 
> to attempt to improve it.
> 
> The font is currently "Espinosa Nova Regular".  That particular cut can 
> be obtained for free from myfonts.com which I think is a good thing for 
> an open source project.
> 
> Here some versions:
> 
> *  clef: http://i.imgur.com/929Ze.png
> *  chess: http://i.imgur.com/GfZ0I.png
> 
> Feel free to use them as you like.

It looks nice to me, but I'm not sure we want to play up the "musical"
theme too much.  Allegro is not particularly strong in that area.

Peter




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