Someone make CDZ a logo!!

[smalltalk]

Usually, an image is opaque. A rectangle.

What to do if you want a circle, for example against a white background?
-> Draw a green circle and make the outerior white -> e voila.

If you now change the white background to, maybe red, what will you see?
-> A green circle in a white rectangle against a red background.

Nowadays, images can be transparent.
Again, draw a green circle but now make the outerior transparent
-> this gives us a green circle against -any- background.
Please notice the sharp border of the circle.

The current logo also has a drop shadow, - no sharp borders- ,which blends from almost black to grey to white/transparent. You have to decide at design time, which background color you want to have or you'll get ugly artefacts.

Just put the logo on a blank page and change background color of the page. You'll see what I mean.

[anarres]

I get it now.

I will have to do testing then when I fuck with it. Got any suggestions as to what you'd like to see?

[WildFire]

Thats a week for swearing anarres

Its a good idea though. Its ur page, so u guys should be able to make it. Plus, I have no ideas. []

[smalltalk]

Well, I see twin planets before my inner-eye, or a wall that 'encloses the universe, leaving Anarres outside, free'.

(I might try out something on weekend)

[smalltalk]

For a very crude first try, you might look at

http://212.227.80.187/extern/anarres.htm

Please note that the size doesn't match the original logo, and that a gif image will became very distorted if it is not displayed in its actual size.

[anarres]

smalltalk, I'm afraid I've given you the wrong idea.

I was thinking of a picture of something civ-related, as I am going to change the forum name to something without 'anarres' in it.

[DrAlimentado]

I'm not the worlds greatest graphic designer but here's a quick go at a logo (derived from the above suggestions)...


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I was thinking about having an image showing thru the PBEM, but got stuck for ideas, it would have to be a fairly 'mono-colour' image though or u lose the definition of the actual word.

the colours used are just for clarity really - I'm happy to play around with it further/ try other suggestions/ ditch it, etc. let me know what you think.

[DrAlimentado]

umm, now I read this thread I see the suggestions aren't here... but I'm sure i read somewhere in here about using 'civilised'.. oh well, you get the idea

[smalltalk]

After looking around for a while, I found two motives:

It's still crude, no fancy drop shadows, no colors, no nothing.

1) the tower of babel




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[smalltalk]

2) Mail theme



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BTW, how about personalizing the site and calling it:
Dan's Inbox Games ==> DIG

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