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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Angela Christine on February 07, 2005, 07:54:40 AM

Poll
Question: Favorite Logo? (see post for links)
Option 1: The new one!  It's new, it's shiny, it's Now!  Yay! votes: 21
Option 2: The old one!  I don't like change, or shiny things!   Besides, the old one had a mysterious ambiguity. votes: 21
Option 3: The really old one from days of yore!  Woo, it looks like a cave painting! votes: 7
Option 4: None of them.  I hate graphics, that's why I play a TEXT game! votes: 3
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Angela Christine on February 07, 2005, 07:54:40 AM
So, now that we've had a while to get used to the new one, which Armageddon logo do you like best?  For reference purposes take another look at logos through the ages:

The new one, from the front page:
http://www.armageddon.org/

The old one, seen here on the GDB or at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20020603213144/http://www.armageddon.org/

The really, really, retro digital primitive old one:
http://web.archive.org/web/19970403220618/http://www.armageddon.org/

Eh?


AC
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Agent_137 on February 07, 2005, 01:39:19 PM
Looking at the old ones, it is clear to me now that there is no sun and desert involved in the damn design. It's just some funky crystal/amber something with a reflection on it.

I like the old one.

I think the old old one would be better if it had more than say, 12 colors.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: HaiWolfe on February 07, 2005, 03:52:08 PM
While I like the new logo itself, I'm not a huge fan of the new font on the front page for the title Armageddon MUD. It's a little too big and feels out of place, in terms of style. A combination of the new logo design and the old Times New Roman font would look nice, IMO.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: HaiWolfe on February 07, 2005, 03:54:32 PM
Oops, double post.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Northlander on February 07, 2005, 04:05:07 PM
I have good taste, and if one just removed the new one's sharp 'shadow' I might prefer that logo to the old one. Despite its fluffiness.

The font's a mistake too, yup. I like that they were willing to change stuff though.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Spoon on February 07, 2005, 05:43:33 PM
Wow.... the really old ones got a quite cool retro-90's-funk-hop feel.

fREakoUT!!
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Whira's Luck on February 07, 2005, 06:53:33 PM
I like the new one. The 'sharp shadow' thing, I don't see as a shadow... the whole center reflects a feel of looking at zalanthan landscape through a slightly wall-eyed lens.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Maybe42or54 on February 07, 2005, 08:05:41 PM
I love the new one, It looks like logo burned itself through the page.
Awesome.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Northlander on February 08, 2005, 09:44:05 AM
Oh yeah. They're a couple of mountains. Then that's a great idea. They should just be textured a tidbit more, have their edge-pixels fuzzified, have their not entirely mountainly curves shifted betterly, and the shine/suk-krath should peek out slightly concealed by them. And the shine should then also be more reddish, as Suk. Probably a wise idea to enlarge the logo by 33% to cram the extra detail in there.
I'd actually up till now thought it was a crazy-dumb flawed shadow-thing done in a minute. My pardons to the author, it's a good idea. I'd like to play around with the .psd if anyone would let me.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: jhunter on February 08, 2005, 10:37:02 AM
I voted for the new one but really, I'd like to see something a bit more in between the old and the new one. I agree with the idea that the shine needs a bit more red in it.
Title: Favorite Logo
Post by: Angela Christine on February 10, 2005, 04:50:30 AM
I like the middle one, but probably just because that was the one in-use when I started playing.  And because no one will ever mistake the new one for a gith clitoris.   The evolution is interesting though.


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