Redesign of dlang.org

[w0rp via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 07:40:03 UTC, 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...

Ah, I didn't realise the SVG was loading a font for that, I
suppose it make perfect sense. Again, no graphic design
experience.

Generally for the logo, I'm looking for someone who does know
what they are doing with Inkscape or similar tools to produce
something which fits instead.