[FOSS4G-UK] [External] Re: Logo

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 4:35 PM Nick Bearman <
nick at geospatialtrainingsolutions.co.uk> wrote:

>
> I'm not 100% sure about Ireland having a different colour and with the
> dots being on the diagonal rather than on the straight (up and down) - one
> or the other would be fine, I think both is a bit over kill. What do you
> think?
>
Yeah, I think as an exercise I tried both and left them both in! Just
colour is probably better.


> Also, something weird is happening between NI and Scotland - not sure what
> the three dots are doing there.
>
The dots are produced by QGIS' point-pattern fill style, so I'll ask it! I
suspect there's some islands or something... I did a lot of adjustment of
pattern fill offsets to try and get something that resembled last year's
logo in terms of resolution etc, so I'll play more and get something that
might be a bit less jittery. I could always adjust manually, because...

> Are you willing to give it a bit more of a tweak, or share the source
> files, so I can?
>
...the rest of it is done in Inkscape...

> I like the names - possibly Bristol need a bit of location tweak.
>
...and the names on a circle were a pain to do - which is why the bottom of
the circle isn't quite right compared to the top of the circle! But yes,
also a bit more spacing around the Bristol text is needed. I whipped this
out pretty quick and didn't have time to fine-tune everything, but if we
want to go with it I'll hone it!  Or pass it on to my "does a bit of
graphic design" girlfriend, but that would mean her staying late at work
for their Adobe license...

> We should also incorporate the event name in there somewhere - FOSS4G:UK
> Local 2023.
>
I think I was unsure about the name and I'm still worried about calling it
"UK" with Ireland in there! Let's not start a war...

> The swoop I like, will have to see how it all fits together.
>
Yeah, integrating the swoop into the map logo is a bit awkward, will
consider...

> Thanks,
> Nick.
>
>
> On 25/05/2023 11:47, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>
> Thanks for the feedback and suggestions, here's the site map with upright
> text and locations marked as open circled.
>
> [image: image.png]
> I had a quick go at incorporating the national flags into the OSGeo
> swoosh. Note that there's no Northern Ireland flag in this but a) we don't
> have a location in NI and b) there is no official flag for Northern Ireland
> - the Ulster Banner and the St Patrick's Saltire are sometimes used but
> there's only four spaces in the swoosh...
>
> [image: image.png]
>
>
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 5:05 PM Dan Ormsby <dormsby at sparkgeo.com> wrote:
>
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>> Looks great Barry!  Vertically flipping the bottom 4 place names might
>> make it a bit easier to read and yes agree on the highlighted points for
>> venues.  It's only now that you mention it that I realise that is what was
>> done on last years logo!
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> On Wed, 24 May 2023 at 16:46, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowlingson at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all, nice chat this morning, sets me thinking about various things...
>>>
>>> I like the logo with the dotmap of the UK and the locations coloured in,
>>> I assume the plan was to do this again but including Ireland and putting 7
>>> dots in the right place for the seven locations? I'd suggest making the
>>> location dots clearer than the background dots, and giving the location
>>> names more prominence? Not sure if embedded images an non-plain text is
>>> allowed on this mailing list but (and I've not coloured the dots in...)
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>>
>>> makes me think of one of those panorama viewpoint indicator things you
>>> get on the tops of hills showing you the places in the distance... which
>>> gives me another idea that's probably totally impractical...
>>>
>>> and in for a penny, here's a preliminary "ten years after" logo...
>>>
>>> [image: image.png]
>>> ok back to proper work now..
>>>
>>> Barry
>>>
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