Idea: bsnes logo contest

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:32 am

agreed, very nice.

ps need moar candy plz

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:58 am

"Unapplicable"? At first I thought it was a typo for inapplicable, but the irony is when you look it up on the web. Unapplicable is defined as inapplicable!

l3v3l · Post by **l3v3l** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:07 pm

Gleasonator wrote:
FirebrandX wrote:This one, only a little bit less gloss and it will hit the sweet spot.
How about this?

Thanks to Thristian for information on the fonts. I found the light font to be a bit too thin for this logo, though, so I used a heavy one. It's still the same font, though.

EDIT: Toyed with the gloss a bit more.I had originally tried toning down the gloss on the red text, but I think it was fine there. It's the buttons on the left that were a little much.

Thoughts?

In my opinion your second one is the best atm!

DataPath · Post by **DataPath** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:14 pm

Gleasonator wrote:
FirebrandX wrote:This one, only a little bit less gloss and it will hit the sweet spot.
How about this?

Thanks to Thristian for information on the fonts. I found the light font to be a bit too thin for this logo, though, so I used a heavy one. It's still the same font, though.

EDIT: Toyed with the gloss a bit more.I had originally tried toning down the gloss on the red text, but I think it was fine there. It's the buttons on the left that were a little much.

Thoughts?

Maybe some really subtle beveling?

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:29 pm

DataPath wrote:Maybe some really subtle beveling?

Too subtle?

doktor_kris · Post by **doktor_kris** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:45 am

Looks great IMHO. :-)

Verdauga Greeneyes · Post by **Verdauga Greeneyes** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 1:57 am

The top horizontal bar of the b looks a bit squished to me. But I'm not sure if making the top fully horizontal would look good.. Other than that, it looks great.

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:30 am

Get rid of the halo around the letters. Makes me think I've got shit in my eyes when I stare at it. Keep the gloss, but just chop it off at the letter border.

Verdauga Greeneyes · Post by **Verdauga Greeneyes** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:41 am

FirebrandX wrote:Get rid of the halo around the letters. Makes me think I've got shit in my eyes when I stare at it. Keep the gloss, but just chop it off at the letter border.

There's a halo around them? It's pretty much invisible with the standard forum skin, so I guess you must be using a darker one

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:47 am

i actually liked it a lot when it looked just like an old-school snes logo

but it's still really good work. much more of that 1337 skillz action than i've got

doktor_kris · Post by **doktor_kris** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 2:48 am

Verdauga Greeneyes wrote:
FirebrandX wrote:Get rid of the halo around the letters. Makes me think I've got shit in my eyes when I stare at it. Keep the gloss, but just chop it off at the letter border.
There's a halo around them? It's pretty much invisible with the standard forum skin, so I guess you must be using a darker one

Probably due to whatever browser he uses. The halo(s) becomes visible when click-dragging in Opera. The logos display fine on both Opera and Safari, at least.

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:04 am

There is no halo as far as I can tell... I didn't create a halo when I made it, and I overlayed everything I cut out with solid colors to ensure that nothing was on the borders. They're all PNGs with alpha transparency.

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:37 am

Gleasonator wrote:There is no halo as far as I can tell... I didn't create a halo when I made it, and I overlayed everything I cut out with solid colors to ensure that nothing was on the borders. They're all PNGs with alpha transparency.

You must have done it wrong because the halo is quite noticeable on the boards using a dark skin. here's a pic of how it looks from my screen:

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 3:53 am

FirebrandX wrote:
Gleasonator wrote:There is no halo as far as I can tell... I didn't create a halo when I made it, and I overlayed everything I cut out with solid colors to ensure that nothing was on the borders. They're all PNGs with alpha transparency.
You must have done it wrong because the halo is quite noticeable on the boards using a dark skin. here's a pic of how it looks from my screen:

Shoot... you're right, sorry. And I was an idiot and didn't save the PSD, then Photoshop froze. I tried to redo it from an older PSD, hopefully this looks close enough to the one above, just without the halo of course.

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 4:16 am

Now that kicks ass! Thanks for correcting that!

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:10 am

I still prefer this one.Simple design with a lovely rounded font <3

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:17 am

kick wrote:I still prefer this one.Simple design with a lovely font <3

I like the newer fonts I'm using better, but I do like the idea behind that one better. It looks most like the original SNES logo.

But everyone else seems to like the newest one best, and Byuu wants all lowercase, so...

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:23 am

In yours (Gleasonator) the top of the S hangs over the boundary of the "emulator" bar, while in the other one the top of the S is within its boundary of width.

if you get what I mean there

edit: or Im blind or the human eye sucks could be that too

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:43 am

gllt wrote:In yours (Gleasonator) the top of the S hangs over the boundary of the "emulator" bar, while in the other one the top of the S is within its boundary of width.

if you get what I mean there

edit: or Im blind or the human eye sucks could be that too

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:03 am

winrar

Thristian · Post by **Thristian** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:46 am

Gleasonator wrote:

For the benefit of future generations, how difficult would it be to make a vectorised version of this, with or without the lighting effects? For example, in PDF or SVG format.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 7:54 am

Personally I don't like the dents at the top of the b and the n. Apart from that it's good.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:00 am

Im personally opposed to visuals, I demand the logo be entirely made of tactile information!

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:19 am

Thristian wrote:For the benefit of future generations, how difficult would it be to make a vectorised version of this, with or without the lighting effects? For example, in PDF or SVG format.

http://gleasonator.com/downloads/bsnes_vector.svg

Unfortunately there are two issues with this...

1. The blue button is flat on the top
2. The letters "EMULATOR" are not actually cut out of the red bar. Instead, they are white overlayed figures.

This is because I used an online conversion tool, and apparently it didn't like transparency... I removed the white background in Illustrator, however, so at least the background should be transparent. I don't know how to fix the other two problems, so if anyone knows Illustrator well, fixing these would be a great help.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:44 am

funkyass wrote:Im personally opposed to visuals, I demand the logo be entirely made of tactile information!

Smell-o-vision plz.