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Very cool! Using a font is a great idea for monochrome cases. A few years ago I tried my hand at a similar project[0], but using SVG, CSS, and hand-written siz
by ianstormtaylor 11y ago
Very cool! Using a font is a great idea for monochrome cases.
A few years ago I tried my hand at a similar project[0], but using SVG, CSS, and hand-written sizing[1] for each logo.
It was useful for us at Segment[2] because we needed to our partners's logos all over the place, and I didn't want to have to create new assets for every possible size/color combination, and to keep them all visually aligned too.
And then I started adding more non-Segment-partner logos too, like Heroku[3] or GitHub[4]. Here's an example in use from a side project[5].
Using CSS and SVG meant that we could keep "full color" and "full color reversed" version of the logos, in addition to just flat colors. Trouble was that hand-writing the sizes is something that only people with a trained-enough eye can do, since they need to be nicely optically aligned, so it got unmaintainable quickly, especially once we wanted to let partners onboard themselves. At one point my co-founder Peter had even written a Slack bot that would create vector versions of the logos automagically using Nightmare[6] and Swiftly[7] under the covers.
Anyways, some of the vector files or prior thinking might be useful for expanding your collection. Good luck!
[0]: https://github.com/logo/logo https://github.com/logo/logo
[1]: https://github.com/logo/heroku/blob/master/index.css https://github.com/logo/heroku/blob/master/index.css
[2]: https://segment.com https://segment.com
[3]: https://github.com/logo/heroku https://github.com/logo/heroku
[4]: https://github.com/logo/github https://github.com/logo/github
[5]: http://www.hn-button.com/ http://www.hn-button.com/
[6]: https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare-swiftly https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare-swiftly
[7]: https://99designs.com/blog/inside-99designs/swiftly-now-99designs-tasks/ https://99designs.com/blog/inside-99designs/swiftly-now-99de...
- ada1981 11y agoThanks for the input and resources!