Worrying attitudes to the branding of the D language

w0rp via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Jul 2 00:44:13 PDT 2014


On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 07:30:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 06:53:42 UTC, w0rp wrote:
>> If you feel strongly enough to talk about how much you hate a 
>> logo for hours, your energy would be better spent designing a 
>> logo to replace it.
>
> I did. I posted a flat SVG version that use a minimal amount of 
> beziers and circles to approximate the current design without 
> gradients. The advantage is that you can inline it in the HTML 
> and get automatic retina resolution and fast loading. It needs 
> tweaking, though.
>
> One advantage of using a flat look is that gradients are more 
> heavy to render and creates problems if you try to do 
> animation. So yes, getting rid of the gradients is a good idea.

Thanks! Is there a chance you could upload the SVG somewhere I 
can download it? I tried copy and pasting the XML into a file and 
loading that, but I messed something up somewhere and it came out 
looking very wrong.


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