Denial

Can anyone suggest a font that closely matches the VIC 20 logo? I want to replace that blurry Denial logo in the upper left hand corner of this forum.

Maybe not a font, but during the transition of the forum I proposed this renewed version, which also gets the perspective right:



I can still change the background colour, add a caption in front of it (or below) and resize it and it will remain sharp.

Thanks!


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Jeff-20 wrote:Thanks!

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At first, I waited if you'd write something else as response.

Jeff, your use of the new logo is exactly not what I had intended. You *again* resized it from a version that had been _sized_ to example dimensions from a master version. And you replaced the light blue background by white, where I wanted to use the grey gradation of the headline banner, which now leaves light blue edges around the letters.

As a result, you turned my design into a mush that's not any better than the logo before.

You could possibly use transparent as the background.

I've already submitted the page to web design contests with your name credited as designer.

Hahaha. Ok, I knew I should have said something when I changed it. That was a temporary solution enacted as I corrected the link to the home page (I made a mess of it on my chromebook and somehow resized it). I actually planned to put a full banner like other phpbbs. Something like videogamecritic.com. I just didn't have time to figure out how to do it yet.

Your bold font admonishment made me feel Brazilian!

I'm actually happy with your disappointment. I have no design ideas and would welcome a community collaboration on what the banner should be.

Those logos are fantastic. Creative Common licensed for non-commercial use, or are these property for Denial exclusive use? Just wondering.

I like it when I disappoint peeps too, it means they care and want more from you. Especially Mike, it's my guilty pleasure.

Oh, surely Creative Common licensed for non-commercial use. I like the collage idea, but I have very poor image working experience. Right now I'm trying to create print-worthy images to replace some damaged Atari 2600 labels, but it's more difficult than I expected.

Oh, and you're right. You know you're working on something good when Mike scolds you.

There is a label maker at AtariAge to design custom labels.

And if you contact Albert, I believe you can get professional quality die-cut labels that aren't very expensive.

Yes, I love the label maker. I've been looking into a label printing service, but my computer doesn't have enough ram to work with their template files!
I really should do something about this site soon too before I embarrass away more of you guys. I'm just really bad with images. I can't even see the colors Mike is talking about. Remember, I don't see color. Groan. Working on it. At least the link is finally fixed. Haha


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I've been looking @ dafont.com and this is the closest I've found



The font for the "VI" and the "20" is "Gobold", to be exact "Gobold Lowplus" and the C= logo is the "Commodore 64" font. Both fonts have all the chars needed in hollow versions. Maybe someone more experienced can find a better match, I'm not very good at drawing...

edit: yesterday I thought it looked like the font in the logo, but just now I think it's too thin...

Thanks! I really hope I find time to replace that logo soon with a full banner. I think I may have started a boycott of the forum.


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Gobold Bold with some horizontal stretch is closer:

But using WhatTheFont, Eurostile Condensed Bold is closer still:

It's not perfect: the tops of the numbers aren't as squared off and the center of the V is cut down slightly deeper, I think.

Here's a Denial logo with a gray gradient that hopefully matches the forum:

And a button scaled to 109 pixels high:

In context:

This is great! I had to modify it a bit because the software insists on a GIF 170 by 94. There seems to be a slight gradient nearing the bottom of the banner. I like it, even though I kinda screwed up the bottom text.

Ah, I see...
In Firefox at 100% zoom, the banner image is zoomed in one step. If you zoom out once, it's 170x94. Ugh.
In Chrome at 100% zoom, the image is 170x94.

Does it have to be a GIF, or will a PNG do? PNG is better - I can make it transparent with alpha.