Dear Paul, Personally I really like your logo design, but there is one thing that bothers me a lot, which is the non-free font. Could it perhaps be replaced by a free font, e.g. Fetamont? https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fetamont
Cheers, Henri On 29/01/19 12:18 PM, Paul Schalck wrote: > Dear ConTeXt users and developers, > > I want to submit a new ConTeXt logo to you (link to GitLab project): > > https://gitlab.com/schickele/new-context-logo > > I made this logo in February 2018. At the time, I was planning to do some > video tutorials on ConTeXt (still work in progress), and I wanted a nice > looking visual clue for the thumbnails. Recently, I made a few minor tweaks > and thought it would be the right time to put it out there. > > The logo comes in two different layouts (hexagonal and horizontal), and each > layout comes in two color variations (multicolored and blue). > > The hexagonal layout is borrowed from the unofficial ConTeXt logo that has > been around for some time. I like the idea of a clean geometrical form, and > the hexagon reminds me of chemistry formulas -- one of the many application > fields of ConTeXt. > > The seven colors have mainly an esthetic purpose. They also denote the > flexibility of ConTeXt. I've added a monochromatic blue version because > shiny, saturated colors are not suitable for every case, and blue is strongly > associated with ConTeXt to me. Blue is also a reminder of Mark IV and LuaTeX. > > The letters are set in Din17 EF, which I've licensed. I like its simple > shapes combined with a round and soft touch. It avoids consciously the very > connoted Computer Modern and can be seen as a modernized and also > Europeanized interpretation of the TeX tradition. > > This logo is just a humble proposal. Perhaps it is of some use to someone. It > could also make someone else want to create and share his or her logo -- that > would be great. > > I'm using ConTeXt since 2006/07 for almost everything that contains text: > letters, presentations, invitations, résumés, certificates, manuals, reports, > flyers, university papers, book typesetting, exercise sheets, song sheets, > and I'm still amazed by how powerful, flexible and reliable it is. Thanks to > the whole community -- and particularly to the Dutch wizard -- for making > this possible! > > Greetings from Leimen, Germany > > Paul Schalck > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
