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[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (45 children)

No I don't. It's an open-source font though. It was called "futurism" or something "future" related. I think if you google image search "future font" you'll probably find it. It's similar to the "centarui" font but that's not quite it

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Thanks. You didn't install it in/for your graphics app?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Someone made the graphics for us and donated it

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (42 children)

No luck.

You're sure it was open-source?

I've looked at hundreds of free futuristic fonts. My first impression over a month ago was that it looked familiar. Various fonts called "Centauri" came up empty too. None as "Centarui".

Any chance you'd be interested in custom rebranding? I'd be happy to do it for free. Also, I would absolutely insist that you don't go for ANY of my design proposals unless you're 100% happy with it. I'm not talking about an overhaul with something radically different. I'd just like to customize and improve what exists from a font into an actual logo and branding.

If you're adamantly against the idea I won't push further. If you're curious or unsure lemme know. This can remain between us or I can post them to surveys for feedback.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (41 children)

If you want to make mock-up images, go for it

I'm not sure what the font name was, I looked for 20 mins. I think I could find it eventually if you really want it

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (40 children)

I would really like it for historical purposes for the IG article. Beyond that it depends on you...

1) Are you absolutely in love with it, just like it, or just think it's functional?

2) Would you like to maintain consistent familiarity, remain relatively similar, or consider new things?

3) Are there any ideas, concepts, emotions, etc you want it to express, that may or may not be there now? ie. Futuristic, modern, sleek, class, understated, to the point, unfrivolous, etc.

4) Would you be open to just a logo with nothing more - or branding and the seeds of marketing strategies?

(For reference, look at Discord's branding page : https://discordapp.com/branding Naturally SaidIt branding needs are different so you would not get all that and may get more details about other stuff. Further, we could develop some aspects together - like the colour pallet, etc. We could also develop branding goals in stages. For example, the logo today, the CSS and pallet tomorrow, and fancy banners down the road, then a web store and an animation campaign using the banner designs even further beyond.)

But before we go too nuts, let's just answer these questions first. If I've forgotten a good one/some I'll respond again like this. Your answers will guide my next moves. And yours. If you absolutely love the logo then you should find that font. I would rather not waste time and energy on trying to just copy it precisely. If it's not that important that I stick to it I can wing it by eye for some basis to diverge from. For example, to make it easier to read when small or from a distance, I would adjust the kerning, the space between letters, so that the very thin letter "I"s were more easily defined. And that's just if I was staying very close to the original. If you're open to it, I could sketch out a page of ideas that may or may not have hints of the original. The options are endless.

Lemme know. I aim to please.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (39 children)

Well... let's just adjust one thing at a time. No reason to go so crazy with it. Just incremental improvements, that's how saidit was built. You make an improvement, we see if it works. Repeat.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (38 children)

Too late. Sort of. Not really. I just sketched some stuff. I need to either find and install a scanner or wait for a camera battery to charge.

Design can work incrementally too. It also helps if you have goals in mind. I'm going to try and help tease out a branding strategy.

I threw a lot at you. Of all of it, I'd like you to revisit #3 for an answer, if you don't mind. Maybe you don't have one. That's okay too.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (37 children)

For #3 I don't care so much as I just want it to look modern and attractive to normal people. Doing paper sketches probably isn't the best way to approach this... don't you think starting in a digital art program would be better? I just don't want you to invest too much time in to this before we decide to include stuff or not. Small pieces is best

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (36 children)

Sketches are MUCH faster to get out some ideas. But they can also seem "sketchy" too and imprecise. It all depends. I'm fast and good so it's no prob. I already did them. Quickly.

Ironically, I just spent hours doing this which I'm not thrilled with - in Photoshop. Sometimes I like symmetry and maths and sometimes it should not apply. This is meh. Sometimes I love pixel art and sometimes it's meh. This one is meh. BUT it would be easy enough to add some geeky animation to make it a groovy pixel GIF. I used 3x3 pixels so it's 300% but I find pixel art looks better at 400%+.

One has the technical symmetry marks : https://infogalactic.com/info/File:SaidIt_Bold_Pixelized300%25_DotNet_FanArt_Technical_561x99.png

And the other is the cleaned up plain SaitIt.net bold logo adaptation : https://infogalactic.com/info/File:SaidIt_Bold_Pixelized300%25_DotNet_FanArt_561x99.png

The "A" is the worst casualty, and it needs to slide over 1 pixel towards the "I". I don't mind wasting time to find out what doesn't work. It's not terrible but it's not good either. It's meh.

My sketches have more promise.

All these images will be in the https://infogalactic.com/info/SaidIt gallery until it gets too much and will need it's own gallery page which will be linked from this main article. Like the table there will similarly be moved off the main article.

I forgot to also mention that if you want to be conservative with incremental improvements it's be ideal to gave that font.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (35 children)

I'm going to be very honest with you here, I don't think we want to go in a pixel-art direction with saidit. People have already complained that it looks outdated and unpolished, and the pixel-art look (especially if not done absolutely perfectly) would just play in to that. We're really looking for stuff more modern and visually friendly to the widest range of users, like I said. I appreciate the effort, but this isn't the right direction sorry.

[–]JasonCarswell[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (34 children)

I agree 1,000,000%. I just thought it'd be fun should someone want a "oldskool" sub banner or whatever. It would also be fun to do animated gifs on.

It started with the Dot Net addition being in pixels.

Of the half dozen sketches I have for you, I feel I can share 2. 1 is just for fun, in part because it's not what you're after, understandably so, but is fun and I can critique it after I figure out this fucking Sony camera software shite. The other may not be a final design but it's very promising and familiar and with some adjustments and vectorizing, might be worthy. I have another in mind that I might bash out too.