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#105 New ACG logo
ftessierftessier, edited OpenGeneral

While working on a higher resolution logo for acg, I came across this idea for a new logo. This is a rough mockup, showing the idea. It could be stylized further. It evokes radio waves and (with some imagination) a galaxy. What do you think?

acg

Using a single storey “a” would perhaps reinforce the circular symmetry:

acg3

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Comments (15)
sahil5dsahil5d

I like it! Can the letters have constant width between them? What font would achieve that…

https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=a%20C%20G&preview.text_type=custom&category=Sans+Serif,Display,Monospace

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ftessierftessier, edited

Oh, this is achieved in the drawing software, practically no font will do that out of the box. For the mock up I used the Mulish google font, since it had a single-story a and a simple geometric shape. The logo can then be tweaked at will as a vector drawing. (The first logo used the google font Raleway).

ftessierftessier, edited

Here is a stylized version, but it lacks dynamics, it is too symmetric:

acg4

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ftessierftessier, edited

Here are two stylized versions that are more dynamic:

acg5 acg6

The first one evokes radio waves and the Doppler shift!

The second one is more dynamic visually (even a bit disturbing, which is perfect for this group 😉). It is also more “readable” (owing to the larger G thickness on the right). It is also very balanced graphically speaking (largest circle is concentric with inner one).

Both are built using primitive shapes only, so it is easy to reproduce and save as a very small .svg graphic file.

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RedshiftDriftRedshiftDrift

Once it is reduced in size it may just appear like a blob/spot that is too dense. Perhaps use thinner ‘C’ and ‘G’? Add some colours? blue/purple-‘a’, green=‘C’, and red-‘G’ ? (That would make it look like a spectrum - personal bias, like spectroscopic redshift 🤣 )

ftessierftessier, edited

I think it is better to stick with one colour for a logo, it is then easy to change the colour scheme 😆. Will check for reduced size and adjust accordingly. Do you like it otherwise?

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RedshiftDriftRedshiftDrift, edited

I like this version ACG as long as the letter-thickness is reduced to well separate the letters on the small logo.

ftessierftessier, edited

I see. Ok, will work towards a final version that is clearer at 32x32 and a few minor improvements for the larger version. Since the reference version will be svg (vector), it will be scalable at will.

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ftessierftessier, edited

Here is my “final” 😄 version:

acg

Looks ok in 32x32:

tmp

I will add the .svg and the .png in the assets/ directory. Here is the svg code for the record:

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			<rect width="512" height="464"/>
		</clipPath>
	</defs>
	<g clip-path="url(#_clipPath_8brULbIyX8qbl3zq5bbZTpzBIH0kNkkN)">
		<g>
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</svg>
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RedshiftDriftRedshiftDrift, edited

… and with a slight angle up! 👏

ftessierftessier, edited

Yes, with some imagination you can almost see a telescope pointed at the heavens!

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ftessierftessier

No, too young… 😉 😆

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ftessierftessier, edited

Please don’t merge just yet, I am uploading cleaner files…

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ftessierftessier

Pull request #106 is ready.

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