[Pydotorg-redesign] Rearranging the python.org sidebar (again!)

A.M. Kuchling amk at asti-usa.com
Tue Aug 12 11:28:05 EDT 2003


On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:46:42PM +0100, Matt Goodall wrote:
> I have always thought having changing images was a terrible idea, never 
> mind the fact that some are unreadable. Python needs a bit more branding 

I don't really care much about branding, and many of the various fonts
are quite attractive, so I'm happy to keep the rotating logos; my
suggestion is just to winnow out a few of them.

After writing a little script to put them all on one HTML page (didn't
Steve Holden post a link for such a page?), I'd point the finger at the
following ones:

014: greatly fattened letters make it hard to read
019: the Wingdings one: it's button, square, diamond, light bulb, clock, star.
040: zebra stripes; if you squint very hard, you can actually make out the 
     word, but it's difficult.
053: fattened, pointillist rendering

I'm unsure of 002, 023, and 030; the letters are eroded away, making
the lines very thin and possibly hard to read.  I like the pointillist
versions much less than the outline font renderings.

Ones I really liked, BTW: 029 (a nice clean-looking sans-serif), 031
(a calligraphic version), 009 (the famous X-Files font).  I find I
prefer ones that slope upward (the right side is higher), and like the
downward-sloping ones less.

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