Logo Design Competition/Collaboration (Survey, last page)

[T-Bone]

Or many instead of the suit/tie, we embrace noir and break out the trenchcoats.

[northsidegal]

if you want to get a feel for what a few of the logos i've posted so far look like in practice, i currently have my script set up to rotate through them randomly

Spoiler: script

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// ==UserScript==
// @name          Mafiascum: Re-Enables Logo
// @namespace     https://www.mafiascum.net/
// @description   Brings back the mafiascum logo & allows for custom logos
// @include       https://forum.mafiascum.net/*
// @version       2.4
// ==/UserScript==

try {
  // mafSepia logo URL: "./styles/mafsepia/imageset/site_logo.png"
  // mafSilver logo URL: "./styles/prosilver/imageset/site_logo.png"
  // mafTigers logo URL: "./styles/maftigers/imageset/sitelogo.png"
  // mafBlack logo URL: "./styles/mafBlack/imageset/site_logo.png"
  
  let imgs = ["https://i.imgur.com/uE2YQzQ.png", "https://i.imgur.com/VjKeXZs.png", "https://i.imgur.com/oyVqLHM.png", "https://i.imgur.com/bHqtJjH.png", "https://i.imgur.com/GbaH3PE.png"]
  let imgsrc = imgs[Math.floor(Math.random() * imgs.length)]
      
  let desc = document.getElementById("site-description");
  var content = "<a href='./index.php' title='Board Index' id='logo'><img src='" + imgsrc + "' width='297px' alt='' title='' /></a>"
  
  $(desc.childNodes[1]).replaceWith(content);
  //console.log(content);
  //console.log(desc.childNodes[1]);
  //console.log("done");
   }
catch(e) {
  // Do nothing.
  //console.log("failed");
  console.log(e);
}

[Dunnstral]

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

[chamber]

and a black text version

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I might try making all of the I that's within the magnifying glass red.

[Isis]

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

Shoot for the moon, miss and land among stars, though

[northsidegal]

I might try making all of the I that's within the magnifying glass red.

yeah, cool idea, although i don't know if it really turned out great. i think there's something elegant about the single red dot in the magnifying glass, personally

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[Dunnstral]

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

[chamber]

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

Was always my intent. I may have conveyed it poorly.

[Dunnstral]

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

[Annadog40]

I like only the dot red and not the rest

[northsidegal]

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

don't think that's a massive problem, think even without the symbolism it looks good personally

I like only the dot red and not the rest

same here

[chamber]

I like the whole thing better, but not all the letters, ruins the symbolism.

[shaft.ed]

I like the whole thing better, but not all the letters, ruins the symbolism.

[xRECKONERx]

again please no slogan with it

[Bingle]

The flat top on the M looks a little weird to me. Could also experiment with the magnifying glass being at an angle (the handle angled away from the s).

[Dunnstral]

Try a version with a lowercase m?

[grody]

I might try making all of the I that's within the magnifying glass red.

yeah, cool idea, although i don't know if it really turned out great. i think there's something elegant about the single red dot in the magnifying glass, personally

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I like #3 the best. The drop shadows on 1 and 2 are distracting, but an all matte design with no lines on #3 is very neat looking. Have you toyed with having the dot above the i being centered in the Lens? This way it draws more focus

[northsidegal]

i think that both the drop shadow being distracting and wanting the i centered come from looking at a zoomed in view and are made a lot less relevant at the more zoomed out view the logo would typically take

no drop shadow really also only works with 3's style of text coloring because you need something to define the magnifying glass as separate from the text

[grody]

Yeah, you're right. I zoomed my browser out to 33.3%, it definitely translates a lot better at a smaller size. I like the aesthetic of the i being in red under the glass, you found the suspicious person. Really good stuff.

[caledfwitch]

noah fence to nsg but i'm not a huge fan of the font choice. idk i think its too round? it makes me think of like comic sans lol

Spoiler: my font suggestion (sry the magnifying glass looks kind of grody i stole it from u lol)

[Nexus]

Could the 'dot' above the I be made into the magnifying glass or is that too smol?

[caledfwitch]

actually i put drop shadow onto the text and that looks nicer haha

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[caledfwitch]

imo that wouldnt work, either the lens would have be tiny to look more like a lowercase i or the i dot would look huge in a way that would kind of distract from everything else? like a really huge pimple

[shaft.ed]

the text and magnifying glass being the same color will decrease legibility when it is small

[chamber]

the text and magnifying glass being the same color will decrease legibility when it is small

Good point. Knowing what it already says makes it easier to fill in.