Thanks Andrija! Going with a solid colour helped a lot. I had to do a bit of tweaking of the lines to make the button visible from a reasonable distance (and to offset the low resolution of the printer I have on hand), but I now have colourful GNU Mailman buttons to give out at GHC12 next week. :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrio/8031876226/

I do promise to print and mail out a few for my GSoC mentors if I can find your addresses (And Andrija if you send me your address!), but the rest of you may have to wait 'till pycon if you want one of mine. But you can print your own! Here's the template I used:

http://terri.zone12.com/mailman-logo-buttonsheet-dark.svg

I'm pretty sure that falls under my existing copyright agreement with Mailman or standard GPL since it's modified from the logo, so you should consider it GPL'ed and free for use as you see fit. It's a standard 1.5" button if you happen to know someone else with a button machine or want to do a run at a print shop.

Terri

On 12-09-26 8:21 AM, Andrija Arsic wrote:

Hi there,

at this side, I can't be 100% sure what can be the problem, but I will bet on gradient colors. I am attaching one .svg file with solid color (darker blue from original colors) so you can give it a try. The other option is that the printer can't give the best look. Maybe you can try on any other.

Let me know if this helps.

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry@list.org> wrote:

...

I am very definitely graphics challenged, but I'm CC'ing Andrija, the artist who generated the original logo. Maybe he has some ideas about adjusting the images for these buttons (which is a great idea, btw!).

Cheers, -Barry

On Sep 26, 2012, at 02:25 AM, Terri Oda wrote:

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So, I'm having a bit of trouble with the Mailman logo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrio/8025917889/in/photostream

The problem being that the delicate lines pretty much just don't show up when I try to print it in button size. I don't suppose anyone here has some hidden graphics-fu and could help me out? the buttons have a 1.375in printable area, and I'm using a colour laser. Maybe if I switched to a single colour instead of the gradients it would help make them work better? The original logo page is here: http://list.org/images/logo2010.svg

I made a stab at thickening up those lines here (this is the sheet I used to make the actual button in the photo): http://terri.zone12.com/mailman-logo-buttonsheet.svg

I'd like to make a few of these for the GHC hackathon (Sat Oct 6th 8:30-4:30 North American Eastern Time, and we'll be on IRC if any of you would like to join us!), but I'm currently despairing of managing to produce some that are legible and attractive.

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