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On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 16:40 +0100, Armin Ronacher wrote:
> 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.
There's also SDL 1.3. I do of course think that Allegro is better, but
just mentioning 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).
Well, it *was* made around that time :P
>
> 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 latest (failed) attempt was this I think:
http://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/592007
> 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.
Yes, much better than the commercial Utopia font. However, a really free
("free as in freedom") font would be even better (like Bitstream Vera or
Dejavu or all those others). Then we could include the font as .ttf in
an example game for example and render the logo text directly.
>
> 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.
>
> Source for the clef version as SVG is here:
> http://dev.pocoo.org/~mitsuhiko/allegro-logo-proposal.svg
>
>
I wonder how well it will work on the website - guess it should be made
blue there instead of black.
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Elias Pschernig <elias.pschernig@xxxxxxxxxx>