Logo Design Competition/Collaboration (Survey, last page)

caledfwitch · Post Post #275 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:45 am

In post 274, JacksonVirgo wrote: Grey conflicts with the sepia a bit, not too much but a bit

do you have any suggestions for a different color instead of grey?

panthaleon · Post Post #276 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:50 am

Big fan of what caled has there. If the concern is grey on sepia, could you provide a snake of a could darker and lighter shades?

Personally I think it's a strong logo that communicates the idea of the game very clearly

Equinox · Post Post #277 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:51 am

In post 273, caledfwitch wrote:
Spoiler: header comparisons (black, silver, sepia)

I am a huge fan of this.

xRECKONERx · Post Post #278 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 9:54 am

the font reminds me of like Inglorious Basterds or Overlord and idk why

Alisae · Post Post #279 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:15 pm

In post 277, Equinox wrote:
In post 273, caledfwitch wrote:
Spoiler: header comparisons (black, silver, sepia)
I am a huge fan of this.

Actually the more I look at it the bigger of a fan I am of it

shaft.ed · Post Post #280 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:21 pm

I like it
would like it more with a sans serif font

Fumuki · Post Post #281 (ISO) » Wed Jul 15, 2020 2:15 pm

random popping in to say that the logo with a tie/magnifying glass was cool. no longer remember who did it.

I feel that the negative space thing is harder to get right in every theme/use it as an overall logo in shirts, social media or etc, because how good the negative thingy looks is very reliant on what is the background color/other details

I feel that a simplistic idea with a magnifying glass or similar would be better overall but dunno, not a designer here.

Bingle · Post Post #282 (ISO) » Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:58 am

In post 280, shaft.ed wrote:I like it
would like it more with a sans serif font

Not_Mafia · Post Post #283 (ISO) » Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:29 am

The red text needs to be on all of the letter parts under the magnifying glass, it doesn't make sense otherwise

Bingle · Post Post #284 (ISO) » Thu Jul 16, 2020 11:32 am

?

Not all players in a game of mafia are scum though. If all the text under the magnifying glass is red, it's just a colored lens, not a revelation that one of the players is EVIL or a tool that helps with deduction.

Not_Mafia · Post Post #285 (ISO) » Thu Jul 16, 2020 12:01 pm

All members of mafia are scum though and the letters are mafia, that's how I read it at least

Cheery Dog · Post Post #286 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:10 am

I think the Scum part of the name is actually a group of millers.

Xtoxm · Post Post #287 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 2:10 am

i actually dont care for the objects i think just the text with some coloring would be a fine logo

chamber · Post Post #288 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 4:39 am

In post 287, Xtoxm wrote:i actually dont care for the objects i think just the text with some coloring would be a fine logo

I think the magnifying glass logo is the best one so far, but it's also the one that's seen the most iterations. I'm not good enough to do it myself, but if those that are did more iterations of some of the other designs I think it would be a more even comparison.

Robbnva · Post Post #289 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:45 am

In post 286, Cheery Dog wrote:I think the Scum part of the name is actually a group of millers.

Who can kill

Dunnstral · Post Post #290 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:21 pm

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

ISO · Post Post #291 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:46 pm

I like mag glass

caledfwitch · Post Post #292 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:39 pm

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

DkKoba · Post Post #293 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:57 pm

i like everything caled has posted but maybe I'm slightly biased. but maybe they just have done good work too

Dunnstral · Post Post #294 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:13 pm

In post 292, caledfwitch wrote: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

chamber · Post Post #295 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:21 pm

In post 294, Dunnstral wrote:
In post 292, caledfwitch wrote: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

Their complaint wasn't against criticism, it was about a lack of constructive criticism. "x is bad" vs "maybe try y", or actually trying y yourself.

Dunnstral · Post Post #296 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:29 pm

I'd prefer to hear everyone's opinions

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

chamber · Post Post #297 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:34 pm

In post 296, Dunnstral wrote:I'd prefer to hear everyone's opinions

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

If the complaint is about the colour of something, its easy to try out different colours yourself. Not putting in any effort is disrespecting the effort of those that are.

Bingle · Post Post #298 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 7:50 pm

In post 297, chamber wrote:its easy to try out different colours yourself.

No. If I have a thought about what colors might be better I will post that I think maybe those colors might be better, in case that inspires someone who isn't me to look at the colors and improve the design. In exchange, I also give up any rights to complain should people completely ignore my suggestions or mith choose a logo I dislike. (Not that I really have much say if mith chooses a logo I dislike in the first place.)

Speaking of which:

In post 275, caledfwitch wrote:do you have any suggestions for a different color instead of grey?

I personally like the grey, but if there's a legitimate need to change it probably a metallic color would be best. Silver, maybe? Potentially brown, although I don't think brown would go well with the red lettering. I think anything ROYGBIV would just look unnatural. If someone wanted to be super spicy they could make a wooden handle texture, but honestly I doubt such a texture would show up well on as small a scale as the logo will likely be.

On a merch note, it'd be cool to see a rainbow colored version of the logo for shirts/hoodies/etc given our large LGBTQ etc. population and emphasis on making this a place where such people can congregate and feel welcome. Assuming of course that the site does a shirt/hoodie/etc. order sometime in the near future.

panthaleon · Post Post #299 (ISO) » Sat Jul 18, 2020 9:16 pm

In post 296, Dunnstral wrote: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