[FOSS4G-UK] [External] Re: Logo

Tue Jun 13 05:10:31 PDT 2023

A day or so faffing with R and text on curves and SVG and CSS and...

Here's a logo:

 https://b-rowlingson.gitlab.io/foss4guk2023/

 thoughts etc?

Barry

On Fri, Jun 9, 2023 at 8:17 AM Rowlingson, Barry <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>
> 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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