Redesign of dlang.org

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 1 July 2014 at 12:40:21 UTC, w0rp 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.

I did that a couple years ago: http://goo.gl/trMh6k