Logo Design Competition/Collaboration (Survey, last page)

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The M in mafia should wear the hat

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I like the text, I don't like the knife thing below. Maybe if it was done differently?

Also I don't like the first M, actually. Or the S

edit: I like the thick red font for mafia

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I think we should steer clear of knives altogether

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No offense, I don't like that

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Osuka's design was close to what I'd want.

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Here, I've circled the parts I dislike



I do like the thick font for Mafia, I don't like that it's uneven

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That second logo looks like it came out of a 2008 kids website

Also I don't think .net should be in the logo

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Size 100, Ariel Black, Bold Enabled

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For reference, here is the old logo:

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Changed the shade of red

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Lowercase version; gives a different feel

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What if the i in mafia was wearing a hat and a suit and looked like a mafia?

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Like this, but drawn better

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I deeply dislike that the f and the i are joined together to form some other symbol. What is that?

Also the red on red thing with the slash shows a serious error in judgement IMO

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I like that

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I like the hat too

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I don't like the glowing text version

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i was bored and quickly threw something together just to see if there is interest in the idea. pretty rough in its current state imo (i think the knife could use quite a bit of work)

This doesn't work on mafiasilver.

that's just a quick palette change though. I sent the red/white version because i use the default skin and thats what works here

The knife is what doesn't work on mafsilver

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here's an initial test without really anything too fancy:

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and how it looks on mafblack:

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on silver:

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and a black text version for sepia:

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i had the idea to make the f into a knife and the i look like a magnifying glass but haven't found a way to make it look good yet, if that's even a good idea

I was thinking 'wow, this really looks like our current logo'

It's because the f and i are super tall

I don't think it makes sense for the f to be super tall anymore, though. Is that the font?

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The knife being silver and thin and fading away doesn't work on mafsilver, I imagine

I prefer when the f isn't that pronounced going up

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That's kind of a cool idea nsg

I'm not sure if I like the gun or not. I feel like the other gun imagery on previous mafiascum merch was tacky. Again, I really don't like the glowing font thing, and I'd also prefer if there was no wood background - that's just my opinion though. Also the logo is a tad too tall. I really like the silhouette style; I like when it's not visually 'noisy'

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I prefer the full lowercase look of the logo, personally, after thinking about it yesterday

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Why does it need a box at all? That looks better than the wood though

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That's the same red the live logo had, was that bad too? What about the darker red I used?

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It looks like the colored gradient is trying to mimick what being transparent would do

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I think it looks better transparent

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I agree that the red on sepia looks bad, though

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To be picky, I still don't like that font where the M's are of varying thickness, and the U

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I like the white and red version, I don't like the the sepia version

Also Nsg's stuff in 127 I like

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I think there's a little too much fade away in the last m in nsg's version

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I like the concept. What if the i was wearing a small tie and cartoon sweating a little, as if under pressure?

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Yeah, I like the clean look as well

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This is what I was imagining

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The tie is meant to show that they are a member of the mafia, the symbolism is in the magnifying class examining said mafia and them sweating from the pressure

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I like full lowercase.
I like clean looking font
I like no tagline
I don't like the red dot on the i

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just depends on if it actually looks well in practice or just in theory

We can see what it looks like
Nsg's script looks useful with the different board themes

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Trenchcoat makes me think 'detective', not 'mafia'

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I didn't understand that the red dot stood for mafia until now

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Some people are unlikely to 'get' it unless it is pointed out to them

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Try a version with a lowercase m?

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I like the magnifying glass as well

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(crop the large amount of black space)

I don't like the text at the bottom being purple, I'm not particularly attached to the slogan either, I think most people feel the same way. The hat should be a darker color, that shade makes me think of a beach hat. I like the font and colors of the main text. I still like the magnifying glass idea from earlier

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This feels over the top/tacky somehow

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Knives are probably a bad thing to add

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capes

knives

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That ruins it, the i is supposed to be a mafia, with the dot being the head

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which is also why having all the text become red ruins it as well

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I prefer no dropshadow

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I really like the magnifying glass; I don't think it's too complex, especially if it looks simplistic.

What are people's thoughts on the m being capitalized or lowercase?

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It should be angled so it's coming from out of frame top right, perhaps?

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Rotate it 45 degrees counter clockwise and snip the parts that go too far above

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My vote is lowercase

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We are not against violent connotations though. I just don't like knives, guns, blood in the logo.

Actually it would be cool if the mafiascum logo could be worn inside of a high school.

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I like no dropshadow.

The silver magnifying glass looks good to me; won't work on mafsilver.

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Also I'm noting that you rotated the magnifying glass and it looks less cluttered.

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In that case having just the dot be red and having the rest of the i wear a suit/tie would indicate that it is at least a person. I think people like the simplistic look more though.

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I like the magnifying glass, I believe the consensus is overwhelmingly lowercase m

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ok not to start discourse in this thread but it's really peeved me how some people post only to criticize designs (made for FREE with a VOLUNTEER'S time and effort) with no constructive suggestions at all. if you want a logo designed exactly to your specifications you can either 1. make it yourself or 2. HIRE a designer to make it for you, not neg your peers just because some small aspect of it isn't perfect

If you don't want criticism, pm your design to mith instead of posting it in the brainstorming thread

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I'd prefer to hear everyone's opinions

You don't need to be a graphic designer to say you don't like something

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I'd prefer to hear everyone's opinions

You don't need to be a graphic designer to say you don't like something

It's p easy. If you don't like something you say "I do not like X because of Y. Could you/maybe try Z to see if that fixes Y."

It takes no effort to say something is bad and does little other than demoralize a volunteer trying to make something pro bono

Maybe you should read the thread instead of coming in here to blindly complain about something

again

, it's pretty apparent that I've been doing that

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Which begs the question: Who are caled, chamber, panthaleon even talking about?

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i dont think a shadow will work because
1) it muddies the legibility especially at zoomed out levels
2) if you're going to start adding in light effect, then you kinda have to also account for the action of the lens in the magnifying glass, which will be super complication

Agree with 1

It already feels kind of cluttered with a magnifying glass over the text (though I like it)

Adding the shadow adds extra complexity

And I don't think it looks good on black theme, which is the default forum theme that, to my knowledge, the majority of users use

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Either way, having the magnifying glass handle hanging off the logo lets you imagine it's proportional without it consuming a large proportion of the image (or, importantly, being responsible for increasing the minimum necessary height of the image just for the magnifying glass's sake.

Yes

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I don't like the fuzzy/scratched looks for 2 and 3, for what its worth, but I guess I'm in the minority