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<p>It has been kind of tense around here for a while; let's have
some fun.<br>
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<p>The DWARF logo is quite old. There are many problems with it as a
logo.</p>
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<li>It is a png and though there appears to be several versions of
it at different sizes it is a raster and so it doesn't scale
well</li>
<li>The image itself looks scanned and then colored. This leads to
some built in aliasing on a pixel level which show up badly when
printed.</li>
<li>The color choices are not really ideal for printing and if we
were going to use it on anything other than on a web page like a
shirt or a sticker there would be problems.</li>
<li>If you look at it up close, it is not really clear.<br>
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<p>I could probably go on and if people would like additional
justification I will but with the new administration and the push
to DWARF6, I think that we should consider a new logo. My wife
happens to be a graphic designer <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://cyansamone.com/">https://cyansamone.com/</a> and
one of the things that she does is logo design. When she came into
my office and the DWARF5 standard was up on my screen and she
cringed for about the 50'th time at the logo, I asked her to put
together some ideas. In a few minutes, she came up with some
options. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_logo_1.png">http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_logo_1.png</a><br>
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<p>The fonts (all free as in beer) and images are mix and match and
any other ideas are more than welcome. They are vector art and so
they can be scaled. This was just a quick mockup. </p>
<p>I also thought it might be fun to have a DWARF6 specific logo
that we could put on tools as they become capable of handling the
new version of the standard. Another idea that I had but she
hasn't drawn yet is the 6 dwarves chasing a bug. She said that
drawing that would take more than the 5 minutes she had at the
moment because she would have to figure out what the dwarves look
like in profile. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_6_draft.png">http://www.bencoyote.net/~ben/DWARF_6_draft.png</a></p>
<p>Yeah I know that it isn't the most important thing in the world
of DWARF but in relation to all the other miscellany that needed
to change, I thought that we should toss this on the list.</p>
<p>-ben</p>
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