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Lex
25 Jun 2012, 03:23
Why is the top of the T double height, while the top of the 7 is not? Did the artist not notice?
It should look more like the attached image. It's just a quick MS Paint job. I copied the part near the top of the 1 and pasted it where it was needed, then used the pencil tool with that grey background color to overwrite some junk. It doesn't look perfect due to some stray shadow pixels and suchlike, but it shows an idea of what I mean.
That looks far more consistent and therefore professional to me.
Here's a little discussion we had in #worms on the GameSurge IRC network regarding the new logo.22:44:43 <BlueMaxima> http://www.thatvideogameblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/team-17-logo.jpg http://amiga.lychesis.net/amiga/RicoHolmes/Team17_1995.gif
22:44:54 <BlueMaxima> I'm guessing the artist thought he was sticking with the old logo on one side
22:44:57 <BlueMaxima> then not on the other.
22:47:13 <KRD> Actually, Lex.
22:47:25 <KRD> Both the T and the 7 used to have double height tops.
22:47:28 <Lex> yeah
22:47:33 <KRD> And I liked that about the old logo.
22:47:39 <Lex> that's acceptable too, but the way it is now
22:47:41 <KRD> It made it feel more full.
22:47:43 <Lex> is inconsistent
22:47:55 <Lex> i like my modified version though
22:47:58 <Lex> it does look good
22:48:03 <KRD> Yeah, it ruins the balance... even more than the italic does already.
22:48:22 <Lex> i'm pasting this little discussion in the thread
22:48:24 <KRD> It's okay... but still worse.
22:48:31 <Lex> hope you don't mind, BlueMaxima and KRDIn light of this, alternatively, the 7 could have a double-height top along with the T, like both the older logos.
I just noticed there was another thread for discussion of the new logo. You can merge that one with this if you want. I looked for a logo thread only in "Fan Frenzy" since I figured nobody would care about something like that who wasn't a frenzied fan.

GreeN
25 Jun 2012, 20:44
http://i.imgur.com/uXyEu.png

Ed Webb
25 Jun 2012, 22:25
The new logo looks good with the circle included (http://www.team17.com/images/logo/T17Logo.png) (though prefer it on a white background -- as on the T17 Twitter page (https://twitter.com/#!/Team17Ltd) -- compared with the current appearance on Team17's homepage (http://www.team17.com/)).
I like the bar aded to the 7, to conform with the old logo. That said, the new logo (in general) is less legible than it could be. The example below's not a suggestion, but an observation of how it would look without bars.

Plasma
26 Jun 2012, 01:33
Funny. When they first released the new logo, I was looking back at the old logos, and the bar over the 7 was what bugged me! It didn't look like it fitted in at all.
So yeah, that's why I support a bar-less 7. And I support a barred T because it does look better.
Besides,
That looks far more consistent and therefore professional to me.
is absolutely rubbish criticism for a game developer's logo.
I'm perfectly willing to say that the italics make it look unbalanced though.

Squirminator2k
26 Jun 2012, 03:36
The current version of the logo is fine. It's not as visually interesting as, say, the logo the company were using in 1992 (which also had a circle around it, for those of you with short memories) but it's nice enough.

Scrubber
29 Jun 2012, 18:52
The bottom part of the 7 doesn't line up with the top part of the 7. This bugs me.

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