From: lucifer@ut-emx.uucp (Light-Bearer) Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <80076@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 19 Sep 92 19:27:04 GMT Organization: The University of Texas at Austin; Austin, Texas I think pink/Black gives the best contrast. I've got a Pink/Blue NSE and a Pink/Black wizard, and the Wizard definitely wins the contrast contest. Just one question: Pink(r.k)/black or black(r.k)/pink? For simplicity, black(r.k)/pink would make life REAL easy for us sewing-stupid people. It's pretty easy to use ripstop tape to make the letter in black and tape them on a pink background. My 2 cents... Dean -- Q \ | Dean C. Hines, Astronomy | dhines@astro.as.utexas.edu | |-+=========|> | University of Texas | dhines@pan.as.utexas.edu | / \ _/ | Austin, TX 78712 | -----------------------------| -----------------| "No, it's not a spaceship, it's a Stunt Kite... sheesh! | = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler) Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <13604@pogo.wv.tek.com> Date: 22 Sep 92 19:54:54 GMT Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Wilsonville, OR. For those who are curious, the final vote totals for colors are: Votes are now: hot pink/black 7 neon red/black 1 hot pink/dark blue 2 hot pink/neon blue 1 Hot Pink/Black it is. As for the logo, itself, looking back on past articles, there were several people who stated a specific preference. Since two people have asked why we haven't had a vote on logo, I reread the articles on the subject, and found the following numbers of actual preferences stated: r.k/R.K 7 @RK 1 @ 2 Since this is the same types of numbers by which the colors were chosen, I think this is probably a reasonable vote. If some watchers out there feel differently about this issue, speak now or forever hold you piece. Later, Dave Butler Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: What more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved... I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the elements of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying I tasted the wine of the gods of which they could know nothing... Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: dcommins@hayes.com Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <6014.2ac02e11@hayes.com> Date: 23 Sep 92 12:42:57 GMT Organization: Hayes Microcomputer Products, Norcross, GA Dave (et. al.), I've gotten a preliminary design for a pin that I'm going to be sending to Steve Cseplo in TIFF form so he can laser-set it for printing. Basically it looks like three diamond stunters sans tails (tails were too tedious to look good). The colors are black/hot pink/dk gray/lt pink/lt gray with the letters R K in vibrant green across the front. Even though I was only thinking of a pin when I did it, after looking at it, I think it would look good on a feather too (something with black and red in it). As soon as I get a good answer on how to post a picture, I'll put it up on the net. ------ Drew Commins - Senior Software Engineer Internet: dcommins@hayes.com Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc. AppleLink: D1958 P.O. Box 105203 CIS: 76067,2327 Atlanta, GA 30348 Amateur Radio: N4XOK 404-840-9200 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <1992Sep23.172703.4565@nds.com> Date: 23 Sep 92 17:27:03 GMT Organization: Northwest Digital Systems north@egr.msu.edu (George North) writes: : I had first voted for Hot pink and Blue. but hot pink and black : will stand out better so I wish to change my vote. I too vote will vote for Hot Pink & Black. (I would prefer Dark Blue myself, but I want to get something decided :-). : : I do still have a few questions : : 1) are we going to use r.k or R.K I vote for R.K : 2) are we going to put them in the outline of a kite (ie Delta) I hope so (a delta is my preference. : 3) are we going to have a standard font Something simple like Helvetica would be nice. One person suggested Courier, but Helvetica is cleaner (read: "simpler to cut out"). For those who don't know what these type faces look like, Courier looks like the characters on an old typewriter, Helvetica is more like the block letters they use in kindergarten. -- Brian Dockter | Northwest Digital Systems UUCP: uunet!nds!brian | Voice: 206-524-0014 Internet: brian@nds.com | FAX: 206-524-0018 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <1992Sep23.164158.16324@nic.funet.fi> From: salanne@convex.csc.FI (Simo Salanne) Date: 23 Sep 92 16:41:58 GMT Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET Organisation: STACK Finland In <13604@pogo.wv.tek.com> daveb@pogo.wv.tek.com (Dave Butler) writes: >For those who are curious, the final vote totals for colors are: > Votes are now: > hot pink/black 7 > neon red/black 1 > hot pink/dark blue 2 > hot pink/neon blue 1 >Hot Pink/Black it is. OK, but... which "hot pink". In X11 world the color names database defines five "hotpinks": R G B 255 105 180 #FF69B4 hotpink 255 110 180 #FF6EB4 hotpink1 238 106 167 #EE6AA7 hotpink2 205 96 144 #CD6090 hotpink3 139 58 98 #8B3A62 hotpink4 I rendered these colors with Xcoloredit and to me it seems that three first are about what we like to have on logo. 3 & 4 are too "brownish". I don't have rip stop samples in the office, so I couldn't compare how well they match with X's "hotpinks". Black is Black - at least pretty close when it's new. Smooth Winds Simo Salanne = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = From: mss@endor.uucp (Marty Sasaki) Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: <1992Sep23.195607.6299@das.harvard.edu> Organization: Sasaki Kite Fabrications Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 19:56:07 GMT Folks need to remember that hot colors fade fast. Some samples of hot pink will show fading after one day in the sun. I would suggest staying with the primary colors for this reason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Marty Sasaki Sasaki Kite Fabrications mss@das.harvard.edu 26 Green Street phone: 617-522-8546 Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Subject: Re: logo Message-ID: From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail) Date: 24 Sep 92 18:37:26 GMT Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA Sorry, I was on vacation and missed the actual voting but let add a few comments: In article <1992Sep23.172703.4565@nds.com> brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) writes: : I do still have a few questions : : 1) are we going to use r.k or R.K I vote for R.K being a unix person, I vote for r.k in lowercase. usenet newsgroups are always in lowercase so the log should be too. : 3) are we going to have a standard font Something simple like Helvetica would be nice. One person suggested Courier, but Helvetica is cleaner (read: "simpler to cut out"). For those who don't know what these type faces look like, Courier looks like the characters on an old typewriter, Helvetica is more like the block letters they use in kindergarten. courier is monospaced, the closest thing to a video terminal and exists as a default on postscript printers. still, Helvetica might look better and wouldn't stray from the concept. someone mentioned pins. is there any other "merchandise" planned, like stickers, patches, or t-shirts? I am curious as during my vacation I stopped by the @! party wearing my X Industries t-shirt and noticed that at one point I was in a conversation with someone in a DOD shirt and another with a Suicide Squid shirt. (all "net" merchandise from talk.bizarre, rec.motorcycles and rec.arts.comics). jv ``There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.'' -- J. S. 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