Redesign of dlang.org

Alix Pexton via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Jul 1 00:45:46 PDT 2014


On 01/07/2014 8:40 AM, Alix Pexton wrote:
> On 01/07/2014 7:42 AM, w0rp wrote:
>
>> The logo on the site I'm testing is the most effective duck.
>>
>> The logo is a placeholder I made with no graphic design experience. The
>> old logo is a bit too fat and round to fit with the new design, so I'd
>> like something which is obviously still the same brand, but looks a bit
>> flatter.
>
> I just found out why your logo looks terrible on my machine, you are
> using a web font in the SVG that FF isn't finding and there is no
> fallback specified so I'm getting a D in Times New Roman ><
>
> A quick solution would be to convert the glyph to curves ("Object to
> Path" on the "Path" menu in Inkscape), then you will know that everyone
> is seeing the same thing.
>
> A...

However, the font is Apache licensed, so to use it in a logo you would 
need to purchase the Pro version for $80 dollars. This is why I do all 
my own typography!

A...


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