The new racketboy logo... you like?

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 8:35 pm

Do you like the new logo?
(it will be smaller in the header)

I wanted something a little more modern, streamlined, and something to tie in the theme of the site.

Once I put it on a mockup of the site, I'm not sure if I like it as much as the original -- especially with the controller on the side.

Update - Check this out:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21177

Post by **dwarpdesign** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:37 pm

Yes please.
Sega Saturn FTW !
Hey, I'm geek enough to say that !

One critique though - i guess you don't want to change the font, but it's hard to look at the a and not see an o...

Post by **nightwalker** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:05 pm

Still needs like something else. But thats just my opinion.

Post by **The Apprentice** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:24 pm

Dude, I don't want to be rude, but any time a person splices in a photo of anything on a single color background it looks kinda cheesy and this isn't an exception. It would be great if the controller was hand drawn though.

Post by **racketboy** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:33 pm

The Apprentice wrote:Dude, I don't want to be rude, but any time a person splices in a photo of anything on a single color background it looks kinda cheesy and this isn't an exception. It would be great if the controller was hand drawn though.

Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing....
Actually, I think just an outline would be best.
But I'm also thinking about just sticking with text.

As for the font, I kinda want to keep it similar since I've kinda built a bit of recognition with it.
But yeah, I get a number of people calling me rocketboy. Also with the current logo, I get people writing it like racketBOY.

Post by **d123456** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 3:12 am

racketboy wrote:
The Apprentice wrote:Dude, I don't want to be rude, but any time a person splices in a photo of anything on a single color background it looks kinda cheesy and this isn't an exception. It would be great if the controller was hand drawn though.
Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing....
Actually, I think just an outline would be best.
But I'm also thinking about just sticking with text.

As for the font, I kinda want to keep it similar since I've kinda built a bit of recognition with it.
But yeah, I get a number of people calling me rocketboy. Also with the current logo, I get people writing it like racketBOY.

I think there wasn't anything wrong with old logo. New logo fine, but indeed use this Saturn controller:

It would be better to use a handdrawn one. There is a Dutch/German site out there that made some art with Saturn controllers, I think they drew the saturn controllers themselves. They might give you the Illustrator file. I can't find the site naymore, but when I do I'll let you know. Great work!

Post by **Reanimation_LP** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 5:15 am

Love it Nick.

Oh, btw, Thanks again for selling me one of the last Saturn modchips.

It was a pain for me to solder (First soldering job ever, but after a few attempts, boom, all workie.

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 6:59 am

Well, it looks like the opinions are pretty widespread so far.
I'm going to continue tweaking it and posting some variations...

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:00 am

d123456 wrote:
racketboy wrote:
The Apprentice wrote:Dude, I don't want to be rude, but any time a person splices in a photo of anything on a single color background it looks kinda cheesy and this isn't an exception. It would be great if the controller was hand drawn though.
Yeah, I kinda thought the same thing....
Actually, I think just an outline would be best.
But I'm also thinking about just sticking with text.

As for the font, I kinda want to keep it similar since I've kinda built a bit of recognition with it.
But yeah, I get a number of people calling me rocketboy. Also with the current logo, I get people writing it like racketBOY.
I think there wasn't anything wrong with old logo. New logo fine, but indeed use this Saturn controller:

It would be better to use a handdrawn one. There is a Dutch/German site out there that made some art with Saturn controllers, I think they drew the saturn controllers themselves. They might give you the Illustrator file. I can't find the site naymore, but when I do I'll let you know. Great work!

Do you have a larger version?

Post by **lordofduct** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:12 am

Personally I really like the simple sleek look of the original.

The new one looks very nice, but should use some more work (I've seen your other stuff man, you've got some more tweaks up your sleeve... remembers the "Nights" wallpaper you did).

Definitely don't go with the Jap white controller. The white and colourful buttons would really clash with the already set colour scheme of the whole website. I love that joypad, but would really clash in my personal opinion.

and for some reason Firefox tells me that colour is spelled wrong... damn them. color... is that what you want FF? COLOR!? Screw you, it's colour. Look it up in the dictionary, it's a word. stupid firefox... I love you.

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EDIT:

Oh yeah, and I like the emphasized BOY in solid white in the original. If you went with that, the white Jap controller might actually look really nice. As my stupid art friend says, "It would frame the word racket"... whatever frame means.