Sorry Iam just moving to another condo and I don't have seen your mails. In a couples of day a i will post some sugesttions in draw.
Br Ubaldo > El 03/03/2016, a las 08:49, Tamas Papp <[email protected]> escribió: > >> On Wed, Mar 02 2016, Mosè Giordano wrote: >> >> Hi Tamas, >> >> 2016-03-02 8:13 GMT+01:00 Tamas Papp <[email protected]>: >>> You are of course right, it would be good to involve the community. I >>> could not resist drafting up a logo myself, in the minimalistic style of >>> the projects you mention above (not that I would be capable of anything >>> that requires more skill). The background is the current AUCTeX webpage >>> color, and the highlighted E is of course for Emacs. Since I don't have >>> a good eye for color or kerning or design or anything related, I attach >>> the source if anyone wants to change it. The font is free and part of >>> TeXLive. >> >> While I initially liked some of the first ideas proposed, I started >> thinking that maybe putting too much symbolism would make the logo too >> complicated to understand. >> >> Your proposal is simple and effective, and the idea of producing the >> logo of AUCTeX by means of AUCTeX itself is intriguing! I'd change >> the font, for example I like Crimson (or its new fork Cochineal). >> Please find attached my take. I slightly changed kerning and raised >> the E. > > Yes, Crimson does look nicer. I changed the kerning a bit, to a > compromise between the default and my somewhat cramped original > version. AFAIK tighter kerning is common for logos. > > I also attach experiments with a b/w version using outlines, but that > does not look so good, so a plain vanilla version (no pagecolor, no > color) might be better. > > Best, > > Tamas > \documentclass[border=0.5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{crimson} > \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \pagecolor[HTML]{556680} > \newcommand\auc{A\kern-0.05emU\kern-0.03emC} \newlength{\auclength} > \settowidth{\auclength}{\auc} \begin{document} \begin{minipage}{\auclength} > \color{white}% \centering% \auc\\[-0.7ex] > T\kern-.15em\lower.46ex\hbox{\color{Crimson}E}\kern-.06emX \end{minipage} > \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% TeX-master: t %%% End: > <auctex-logo.pdf> > \documentclass[border=0.5mm]{standalone} \usepackage{crimson} > \usepackage[svgnames]{xcolor} \newcommand\auc{A\kern-0.05emU\kern-0.03emC} > \newlength{\auclength} \settowidth{\auclength}{\auc} \usepackage{pdfrender} > \newcommand{\outline}[1]{\textpdfrender{% TextRenderingMode=2,% > LineWidth=.05ex,% StrokeColor=black, FillColor=, }{#1}} \begin{document} > \begin{minipage}{\auclength} \color{white}% \centering% > \outline{\auc}\\[-0.7ex] > \outline{T}\kern-.15em\lower.46ex\hbox{\color{black}E}\kern-.06em\outline{X} > \end{minipage} \end{document} %%% Local Variables: %%% mode: latex %%% > TeX-master: t %%% End: > <auctex-logo-bw.pdf> _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
