<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">Hi all, sorry this had to be my first posting to the list, but I figured I'd provoke some more direct inspiration.</span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I just wanted to chime in and say that this is my favorite of all the designs I've seen posted. Now for the inspiration...</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">First off, I would suggest sticking with the anvil rather than incorporating a musical triangle into the design. The Triangle is a location, and has little to do with the purpose of the Triangle Python community, which as I see it is indeed to "forge" things with computers. Also, how would you design a logo around a musical triangle that relates to a Python usergroup? The most resonating mental image I can associate with a musical triangle is dinner time on the farm.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Secondly, drop the Arial typeface. This is a proprietary typeface <a href="http://www.linotype.com/en/145867/Arial-family.html">owned by Monotype Imaging</a>, and it's a shabby knockoff of Helvetica (also <a href="http://www.linotype.com/526/Helvetica-family.html">owned by Monotype Imaging</a>). I would recommend finding a typeface that is both beautiful and open sourced. <a href="http://www.impallari.com/cabin">Cabin</a> could be a good humanist sans alternative.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Thirdly, I would recommend figuring out a way to make the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning">kerning</a> look better. <a href="http://type.method.ac/">Here</a> is a game that teaches you how to do that. Additionally, it appears as though the word TRIANGLE is smaller than the word FORGED. Maybe eliminating the black border, and making the anvil smaller would help out with the kerning aspect. </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">Finally, some cool (but slight) text effects could be used to give this logo a more polished feel. Maybe something that looks like it is <a href="http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/steel-text-effect/">made from hot metal</a>? </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; ">I also think that the background color is too dark in comparison to the black text, and would recommend using a different color such as <a href="http://www.colorhexa.com/ff4500">#ff4500</a>. That is all bound to change once hot metal text effects are added, so for now I would worry about color last once the other stuff is taken into consideration.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><br><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Aug 7, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Calvin Spealman wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>If anyone is still interested in the idea, what do you think of the<br>badge I whipped up?<br><br>I've also registered @triangleforged and <a href="http://triangleforged.org">triangleforged.org</a> if running<br>with this name, which I like quite a bit.<br><br>On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Calvin Spealman <<a href="mailto:ironfroggy@gmail.com">ironfroggy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I think we need to have something a bit simpler, we need them to look<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">nice on whatever site someone is building. Anything that could lead to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">a design clash will make them less likely to use. Also, I don't think<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"Tried & True Triangle" reflects the idea well, I'm sorry.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I'm really liking "Triangle Forged" and I've got my ideas sketched up<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">but need to put them up digitally, this evening.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:26 PM, David Burton <<a href="mailto:ncdave4life@gmail.com">ncdave4life@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Very nice looking... but they don't convey the fact that the thing bearing<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">the label was created in the Research Triangle. They're kind of like those<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wonderfully entertaining ads that, at the end, leave you wondering what<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">product they were for.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Dave<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Rob Lineberger <<a href="mailto:rob.lineberger@gmail.com">rob.lineberger@gmail.com</a>><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">wrote:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">I had a few cycles and put some ideas together. Images here:<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/cpz5l9n">http://tinyurl.com/cpz5l9n</a><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">TriZPUG mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:TriZPUG@python.org">TriZPUG@python.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/trizpug</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://trizpug.org">http://trizpug.org</a> is the Triangle Zope and Python Users Group<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Read my blog! 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