Graphic Designers! - CB2 Needs a New Logo and Icon

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Calling all graphic Designers, we need a new logo and favicon for our site.

If you would like to submit your attempt please reply to this post with your attempt.

What we are looking for:
We need a new logo, and one icon 16/24/32 px. The icon should be a star, but we would like something new. Both would be up to your creative mind Wink See the current logo at the top of this page.

And here is our current extension icon

The logo is nice, but it was made when we were just a forum and the extension was Custom buttons, not Custom Buttons². The new logo should read Custom Buttons² and have some sort of incorporation of the star you design for the icon. The icon can be anything, as long as it is fun and sleek. Both should work well on any color background and look good on this site.

Let us know if you can do it and thanks for reading.

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What's with the star?Why?

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So...you didn't get any responses on this?

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Yep, I decided to participate. It's simple, but sleek and overall just looks cool. I hope you consider it.
Also, I gave the entire thing a colored background in this post to make it more visible.

Sorry for the fail in some spaces, I copied the text from my word processor, which isn't really a good move, but I couldn't italicize Agency FB in GIMP. D:

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*Cough*

Whatever you do, please, make it so that it can be easily hidden with a style. Please!

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don't be rude makondo.

there.is.only.xul good to see you around again. thanks for the contribution. it is fairly nice. If we went for something like that then we would certainly need some transparency for it to look good on the site.

I did get a response from a friend of mine. But he hasn't finished what he gave me yet. I hope he can make some of the adjustments we were discussing in irc a while back.

There is a red and a blue version below. The attach features is acting weird so you need to click the red hyperlink to see it.

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OK, didn't think asking to make it 'hidable' was rude. You know me - i 'style' everything.
The reason i'm asking for this is that i usually hide/replace site logos for sites i visit often 'cause i know where i am. They may be useful for a first visit or if i don't visit a site often. Other than that, i find them useless. In my Blues style, the logo we have now didn't fit well and it was difficult to replace.
Of course, you can simply ignore this request Wink
Sorry for the interruption.

PS. Insert smileys everywhere ... Wink

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I thought that the black background was simply to make the logo visible in the post since posts have a much lighter bg than the header area. And I also figured that the background for the logo would be transparent.

Yeah, I too have an ouch factor when I see things on black backgrounds, but I quite like the logo itself.

And yeah again, I hide the "newbie orientated bumph" on forums I use a lot too Smile

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Custom Button Custom Button

I tried, if you do not like it, then tell me please.
I just took a little time on this, since I was bored and it wasn't really requested 'speceficaly' to me, so yeah.

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I like it. Great job!

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Not bad at all.

I take it you'd be able to tweak it to provide different backgrounds and text font colour for the various themes the forum uses?

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haha, thanks, but arrghhhh!
i forgot the orange, how embarrassing.
I'll fix that up and repost and edit in this post.
Sorry about that.

I have 2 versions here. Take whichever you like.

The first one, it's an unfinished one because I started to think it wasn't good.
But since everyone has diferent opinions, i thought I'd upload it.
If the first one happens to be better, please tell me. I'll be glad to edit them, however, if so, please email me or pm me.

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I like them both. Really nice. Now, is that a transparent bg (with white splashes) in the first pic? I think the first one is actually better 'cause, first of all, the whole logo is readable there (dbl t isn't on the second one) and it seems more compact. To fix the logo, you may want to add a small black shadow to the letters.

EDIT: OK, checked it, it actually looks better on a dark bg, which is good Clap

Looks like nicholas is not interested any more though.

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He's been busy this week and hasn't had much chance at all to look in.

He sure has heck hasn't seen my latest babelzilla translation or he'd have binned it by now Smile

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I presume it's still open. Here are 2 drafts, comments are very much welcome.

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This is very excellent! We agreed in IRC. We would like the color of the superscript two to be a little more like the header of our site however.

The smaller version is grainy but I can fix that by rendering it with icofx. Thanks and we will most certainly be using this new and wonderful logo/icon. Thanks everyone who has tried their hands at it, the hard work has been much appreciated.

ploksky, will you please provide a version with a little better blue for the 2. And could you send us the psd as well? I also want to know how you would like to be credited in the extension. Name, maybe a site link if you have one.

Please send me by email if need be. (this email is only good temporarily [avoiding spam], I will reply to you with my real email once you write me).

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Just want to post the icons I made with icofx...

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Magnificent icons Very Happy ! it look good on my tab. I certainly couldn't have done it any better.

I'll still try to do a bigger master just in case the need arises, but the PSD I've send you I think is enough for the current header size.

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Congratulations on ploksky for the new icon.

Though if i had anything to say about it, make the favicon just the yellow ball with blue "2".

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nicholas hasn't been seen around for ... months now! But thanks for reviving this thread, i was able to delete some missed spam Wink

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