Redesign of dlang.org

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 1 July 2014 13:40, w0rp via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:38:39 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> I'll fix that in the interim by converting the font into a shape instead.


By the way, did you get round to implementing some sort of generic
watch routine?

I've bashed together a small generic FAM - could clean it up and send
it to the vibe.d guys to fix up and make it better.

Regards
Iain