By day I'm a video game consultant, and I also volunteer at the German Shepherd Dog Welfare Fund - the charity that rescued the dog I adopted last year. I've also recently started compiling a website covering the history of the village I live, although I'm hoping to draw in some help for that project!
Here is scratchpad when I need it, and a place for my personal projects. It's also an archive from back when this was was my writing blog.
Thanks for the wallpapers. I like the basic design. However, I'm afraid there are two problems:
1. The highest resolutions simply aren't provided here. E.g. the 1920x1200 one actually links to a 1600x1000 image. The largest I've managed to find is 1600x1200, which isn't widescreen. Could you supply the correct large images, please? Thanks.
2. Being pedantic, with my designer and typographer's hat on, I simply have to complain about the lettering in ELITE. Sorry, but it's just not right! Look at the baseline and also the tops of the letters. In effect, the L and the I are significantly too tall. The L is correctly positioned on the baseline, but extends vertically to the top of the serif in the letter E next to it. The I also goes too high (to the top of the serif rather than the top of the letter), and also extends too far downwards (to the bottom serif level, which is below the baseline). The two Es and the T are basically OK, except that the T is positioned very fractionally too low compared with the Es. Or maybe it too is fractionally wrong in terms of size. But the L and the I really need resizing. Sorry to be such a nitpicker, but the logo otherwise looks good; yet it's let down by the look of the lettering, and to anyone who cares about typography, the problems stick out like a sore thumb.
What appears to have happened is that all the letters have been sized to fit the bounding box of the E, which unfortunately wasn't a clever thing to do because the serifs of the E are extraneous to the basic letter size and should not have been included in the calculation. So the Es are OK but everything else is more or less wrong, depending on how many vertical serifs the letters have.
Merry Christmas to the team!
ReplyDeleteThanks and to you as well!
DeleteMerry Christmas to all of you and may the Spirit of Jameson be Elite: Dangerous a reality.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting for soooo long!!!!!
Merry Christmas team E:D.
ReplyDeleteThanks - we'll do our best. Make sure to tell everyone you know :-)
ReplyDeleteThe renders coming out are fantastic.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wallpapers. I like the basic design. However, I'm afraid there are two problems:
ReplyDelete1. The highest resolutions simply aren't provided here. E.g. the 1920x1200 one actually links to a 1600x1000 image. The largest I've managed to find is 1600x1200, which isn't widescreen. Could you supply the correct large images, please? Thanks.
2. Being pedantic, with my designer and typographer's hat on, I simply have to complain about the lettering in ELITE. Sorry, but it's just not right! Look at the baseline and also the tops of the letters. In effect, the L and the I are significantly too tall. The L is correctly positioned on the baseline, but extends vertically to the top of the serif in the letter E next to it. The I also goes too high (to the top of the serif rather than the top of the letter), and also extends too far downwards (to the bottom serif level, which is below the baseline). The two Es and the T are basically OK, except that the T is positioned very fractionally too low compared with the Es. Or maybe it too is fractionally wrong in terms of size. But the L and the I really need resizing. Sorry to be such a nitpicker, but the logo otherwise looks good; yet it's let down by the look of the lettering, and to anyone who cares about typography, the problems stick out like a sore thumb.
What appears to have happened is that all the letters have been sized to fit the bounding box of the E, which unfortunately wasn't a clever thing to do because the serifs of the E are extraneous to the basic letter size and should not have been included in the calculation. So the Es are OK but everything else is more or less wrong, depending on how many vertical serifs the letters have.
It looks like the blog won't handle the higher resolutions. I'll add them to the Frontier site when the office opens again - sorry about that!
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