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Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas
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EglobalpresS |
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Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas |
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Thu, 10 Mar 2016 00:52:59 +0100 |
Sorry Iam just moving to another condo and I don't have seen your mails.
In a couples of day a i will post some sugesttions in draw.
Br
Ubaldo
> El 03/03/2016, a las 08:49, Tamas Papp <address@hidden> escribió:
>
>> On Wed, Mar 02 2016, Mosè Giordano wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tamas,
>>
>> 2016-03-02 8:13 GMT+01:00 Tamas Papp <address@hidden>:
>>> You are of course right, it would be good to involve the community. I
>>> could not resist drafting up a logo myself, in the minimalistic style of
>>> the projects you mention above (not that I would be capable of anything
>>> that requires more skill). The background is the current AUCTeX webpage
>>> color, and the highlighted E is of course for Emacs. Since I don't have
>>> a good eye for color or kerning or design or anything related, I attach
>>> the source if anyone wants to change it. The font is free and part of
>>> TeXLive.
>>
>> While I initially liked some of the first ideas proposed, I started
>> thinking that maybe putting too much symbolism would make the logo too
>> complicated to understand.
>>
>> Your proposal is simple and effective, and the idea of producing the
>> logo of AUCTeX by means of AUCTeX itself is intriguing! I'd change
>> the font, for example I like Crimson (or its new fork Cochineal).
>> Please find attached my take. I slightly changed kerning and raised
>> the E.
>
> Yes, Crimson does look nicer. I changed the kerning a bit, to a
> compromise between the default and my somewhat cramped original
> version. AFAIK tighter kerning is common for logos.
>
> I also attach experiments with a b/w version using outlines, but that
> does not look so good, so a plain vanilla version (no pagecolor, no
> color) might be better.
>
> Best,
>
> Tamas
> \documentclass[border=0.5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{crimson}
> \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \pagecolor[HTML]{556680}
> \newcommand\auc{A\kern-0.05emU\kern-0.03emC} \newlength{\auclength}
> \settowidth{\auclength}{\auc} \begin{document} \begin{minipage}{\auclength}
> \color{white}% \centering% \auc\\[-0.7ex]
> T\kern-.15em\lower.46ex\hbox{\color{Crimson}E}\kern-.06emX \end{minipage}
> \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: t %%% End:
> <auctex-logo.pdf>
> \documentclass[border=0.5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{crimson}
> \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \newcommand\auc{A\kern-0.05emU\kern-0.03emC}
> \newlength{\auclength} \settowidth{\auclength}{\auc} \usepackage{pdfrender}
> \newcommand{\outline}[1]{\textpdfrender{% TextRenderingMode=2,%
> LineWidth=.05ex,% StrokeColor=black, FillColor=, }{#1}} \begin{document}
> \begin{minipage}{\auclength} \color{white}% \centering%
> \outline{\auc}\\[-0.7ex]
> \outline{T}\kern-.15em\lower.46ex\hbox{\color{black}E}\kern-.06em\outline{X}
> \end{minipage} \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%%
> TeX-master: t %%% End:
> <auctex-logo-bw.pdf>
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, (continued)
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Vincent Belaïche, 2016/03/23
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Vincent Belaïche, 2016/03/24
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Vincent Belaïche, 2016/03/24
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Mosè Giordano, 2016/03/24
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Jorge A. Alfaro-Murillo, 2016/03/24
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Vincent Belaïche, 2016/03/25
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Tamas Papp, 2016/03/25
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Tamas Papp, 2016/03/05
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Matthew Leach, 2016/03/25
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Mosè Giordano, 2016/03/25
- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas,
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- Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, Vincent Belaïche, 2016/03/02
Re: [AUCTeX] Logo for AUCTeX: request for ideas, EglobalpresS, 2016/03/02