Idea: bsnes logo contest

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:45 am

i liek, but its somewhat off

not sure how.

still awesome

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 6:59 am

gllt wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:
Gleasonator wrote:Heehee.
Put it on a Genesis cartridge.
Please?
WOW I DON'T NO HAO PUT PORTABLENETWORKGRAFIX OVER JAYPEG

My own image editing skills are poor at best.

Katana bikini girl edit: man, you really suck at quoting lately. Buck up now !
Good to know Aya's got my back.

henke37 · Post by **henke37** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:30 am

I just remembered that maybe we need new icons to go with the logo, but you guys know how to make a 16x16 design look good, right?

kick · Post by **kick** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:43 am

You can put this one on your Genesis cartridge:

Tee-hee

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:57 pm

byuu wrote:But anyway, all lowercase please.

gllt wrote:its somewhat off

Yes it is, and I blame the font. I'm using Arial Rounded, distorted in Photoshop to attempt to emulate the official font. If anyone knows the name of the official font, I'm sure I'll be able to get my hands on it and make this image better.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 1:17 am

if Im not allowed to do this or if you want the source (.psd) then I'll remove/give it to you etc

I don't want rights for anything I really don't care

Thristian · Post by **Thristian** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:17 am

Gleasonator wrote:If anyone knows the name of the official font, I'm sure I'll be able to get my hands on it and make this image better.

I tried a couple of online font-identification services, and the closest thing I found was Agency FB Bold Condensed, which still isn't right (the R is particular is different). It's perfectly possible Nintendo's graphic artists just drew the letters by hand without using a pre-existing font - they're pretty simple, no great typography skill needed.

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:34 am

Thristian wrote:Agency FB Bold Condensed

I know the letters are slightly warped along the edges, but I'll be able to fix that soon... just wanted to get some general thoughts on this one first.

gllt wrote:if Im not allowed to do this or if you want the source (.psd) then I'll remove/give it to you etc

Oh, no. If anyone feels that they can make an improvement to my image/images, please feel free to do so. After all, we'd want only the best image(s) in bsnes.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 2:56 am

I feel like I screwed this one up a bit, whoops.

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:09 am

Thristian wrote:
Gleasonator wrote:If anyone knows the name of the official font, I'm sure I'll be able to get my hands on it and make this image better.
I tried a couple of online font-identification services, and the closest thing I found was Agency FB Bold Condensed, which still isn't right (the R is particular is different). It's perfectly possible Nintendo's graphic artists just drew the letters by hand without using a pre-existing font - they're pretty simple, no great typography skill needed.

The closest I found was an italic Eurostile (or Eurostyle) font. Again the R's were slightly off among a few other differences. I agree that Nintendo's artists probably just designed their own fonts. Prevents having to deal with lawsuits or royalty claims I imagine... Though I remember some years back, Nintendo and a few other companies had to pay astronomical amounts of money after a patent holder successfully sued them over the use of displaying graphics on a TV (or something to that effect).

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:18 am

Here's an update on the Agency one.

Still experimenting. Thanks for the help, guys.

EDIT: And here's for you people who like gloss.

EDIT2: Small black drop shadow.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:30 am

Good job man.

EDIT; random mod
less awful

FirebrandX · Post by **FirebrandX** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:03 am

Gleasonator wrote:
EDIT: And here's for you people who like gloss.

This one, only a little bit less gloss and it will hit the sweet spot.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:11 am

FirebrandX wrote:
Gleasonator wrote:
EDIT: And here's for you people who like gloss.

This one, only a little bit less gloss and it will hit the sweet spot.

like this?

Thristian · Post by **Thristian** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:17 am

Gleasonator wrote:Here's an update on the Agency one.

You seem to have figured it out yourself quite nicely, but just in case anyone was curious, the "SUPER NINTENDO" text of the original logo is slanted exactly 37 degrees to the right (I had to skew it back exactly 37 degrees to get a nice upright font for more reliable auto-identification)

Also, the text in the block at the bottom seems to be "Helvetica Neue LT Std Bold Oblique Condensed" (it might just be ordinary Helvetica rather than Helvetica Neue, but I don't have it handy.) Also, the space between the letters and the outside edges should be closer to the space between the letters.

<-- font nerd.

EDIT: Just for sheer completeness' sake, I believe the "START" and "SELECT" controller labels are also Bold Oblique Condensed Helvetica, while the "X Y A B" labels are Bold Expanded Helvetica.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:17 am

gllt wrote:

Ooh. Could you do a bigger version of just the left part, with that filter on? Looks like candy...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:26 am

why did you all ignore Byuu when he said the "b" had to be differentiated from the "SNES"?

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:35 am

franpa wrote:why did you all ignore Byuu when he said the "b" had to be differentiated from the "SNES"?

creativity killer

ps DMG thats not really a filter, its a combo effect of trial and error, so I can reproduce similar candy hurr

franpa;

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:54 am

franpa wrote:why did you all ignore Byuu when he said the "b" had to be differentiated from the "SNES"?

Probably because I never said that :P

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:56 am

Ah my bad, Deathlike said that.

gllt · Post by **gllt** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:58 am

wheres the franpa alerts

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:05 am

gllt wrote:wheres the franpa alerts

http://linksadventure.no-ip.org/pictures/franpa-alert/

Seriously, whoever has FTP access to the zboard server, RIGHT THE FUCK NOW, should upload these Franpa alerts and make them board emoticons, ffs.

Dullaron · Post by **Dullaron** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:29 am

I always thought with a letter b front of snes stand for Bitches Super Nintendo.

Gleasonator · Post by **Gleasonator** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 6:55 am

FirebrandX wrote:This one, only a little bit less gloss and it will hit the sweet spot.

How about this?

Thanks to Thristian for information on the fonts. I found the light font to be a bit too thin for this logo, though, so I used a heavy one. It's still the same font, though.

EDIT: Toyed with the gloss a bit more.I had originally tried toning down the gloss on the red text, but I think it was fine there. It's the buttons on the left that were a little much.

Thoughts?

Thristian · Post by **Thristian** » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:26 am

Gleasonator wrote:

Thoughts?

Gorgeous.