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DnDBreeder
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 22 Apr 2009 : 03:32:36
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Alaundo! I'm still around BTW, just working and playing Warhammer when I have free time. If you need anything done, just ask, no matter how big or small the project. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
    
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
    
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 23 Apr 2009 : 16:48:45
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quote: Originally posted by Ashe Ravenheart
I know it's not much, but figured I toss it out there and see what people thought:
Logo idea
It looks interesting enough.
I'm not sure I like the idea of having both an image and text, though. It does kinda feel more "commercial" and less "scholarly." But maybe that's just me. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
    
USA
3248 Posts |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2009 : 15:49:55
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Let me know what you think: Click Here |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
    
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2009 : 18:43:10
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Here are two other versions - one variant of the flame and one without.
Logo 1 Logo 2
I could also animate the flame using Flash. |
Edited by - Nefarious on 01 Jun 2009 18:44:50 |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
   
France
1608 Posts |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 01 Jun 2009 : 20:48:58
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They are hosted on a server which I pay for, so I see no reason that you wouldn't be able to view them, unless your ISP is blocking Network Solutions servers. It's possible the host was down temporarily (try again) but if people have a problem viewing them I can host them elsewhere.
Alternate downloads: Logo 1 Logo 2 |
Edited by - Nefarious on 01 Jun 2009 20:55:06 |
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Fillow
Master of Realmslore
   
France
1608 Posts |
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crazedventurers
Master of Realmslore
   
United Kingdom
1073 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 00:20:37
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quote: Originally posted by Nefarious
They are hosted on a server which I pay for, so I see no reason Alternate downloads: Logo 1 Logo 2
Image one for me - not a fan of the 'd' flame
Cheers
Damian ps EXCELLENT work Neferious |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
    
Australia
31799 Posts |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
    
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 10:06:45
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I would go with number one. I think it looks better without the flame.
Both of them looks great though. |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 15:55:08
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Thanks for the comments! |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
    
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 16:27:13
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I like both, tending toward option 1 (without the flame). I think the flame as a D is maybe a little confusing in option 2.
An animated flame would be pretty cool, though!
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jun 2009 : 17:15:48
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The flame version was really just for fun. The original was without the flame and meant to be the primary logo. I have never had more fun designing a logo than I did with this one. |
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DnDBreeder
Acolyte
USA
7 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2009 : 02:12:05
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I love that font! Very nice design Nefarious. Did you design the font yourself?
~Wants to post his submissions to see what everyone thinks of them. :P ~ |
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Dart Ambermoon
Learned Scribe
 
Germany
253 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2009 : 02:28:03
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I also think the one without the flame looks better. Fantastic work Nefarious. |
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Nefarious
Acolyte
USA
21 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jun 2009 : 03:16:10
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The font is based off of the Morpheus font, which I recreated in Illustrator. |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator

    
United Kingdom
5696 Posts |
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Brimstone
Great Reader
    
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2009 : 20:29:43
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I like it.  |
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Alaundo
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United Kingdom
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Brimstone
Great Reader
    
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2009 : 20:40:51
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It is really classy. It was the first thing I noticed when I came in the "doors" so to speak. |
"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding." Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
    
Germany
2296 Posts |
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Jakk
Great Reader
    
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2009 : 22:54:01
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Like Mace, I was also caught off guard (I hadn't been following this scroll lately), but it looks good. Nice work, Nefarious! |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Arivia
Great Reader
    
Canada
2965 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2009 : 00:11:47
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quote: Originally posted by Alaundo
quote: Originally posted by Brimstone
I like it. 
Splendid 
This logo is a slight variant on the main logo which will grace the Candlekeep website. (In turn the main logo may also make it's way to the forum logo; we'll have a vote )
You're alive, Big Al! Long time, no see. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
    
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2009 : 01:02:50
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quote: Originally posted by Alaundo
quote: Originally posted by Brimstone
I like it. 
Splendid 
This logo is a slight variant on the main logo which will grace the Candlekeep website. (In turn the main logo may also make it's way to the forum logo; we'll have a vote )
Wait. Candlekeep's a democracy?
So all the motivational whippings and flailing I've authorised were for nothing? But the Lady Hooded One insists? Hmmm. 
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Jorkens
Great Reader
    
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2009 : 08:31:15
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That was unexpected. Change has never been my thing, but in a couple of days I will have gotten used to it. Don't get me wrong, I like the logo, its just that it still "surprises" my eyes each time I look at the top of the page. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
   
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2009 : 09:39:39
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I like it. Sharp, distinctive, and legible. Not too gaudy or confusing. Good job, nefarious.
Just an idea on some other kind of logo, perhaps for another page on the site, perhaps some time far off in the future . . .
How about a combination of the symbols for Oghma, Deneir, Gond, Milil, etc., who supposedly are/have been favored within these hallowed grounds?
Perhaps with the symbol from the Keep's Inner Ward Token described in Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast?
Perhaps animated, to reveal each in sequence?
I apologize in advance that I don't even know how to begin to do what I've suggested, here.
(The Inner Ward Token's symbol might also be a good image for a "Click here to enter"-type of application.) |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly." --Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator

    
United Kingdom
5696 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2009 : 20:29:34
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quote: Originally posted by Arivia
quote: Originally posted by Alaundo
quote: Originally posted by Brimstone
I like it. 
Splendid 
This logo is a slight variant on the main logo which will grace the Candlekeep website. (In turn the main logo may also make it's way to the forum logo; we'll have a vote )
You're alive, Big Al! Long time, no see.
Well met
Aye, indeed I am, my dear Arivia. Apologies for my absence. It appears as though I have a fair bit of work to be getting on with   |
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