[Design-team] FUDCon Toronto 2009 T-shirt design

Mel Chua mel at redhat.com
Sun Nov 8 09:38:13 UTC 2009


On 11/07/2009 03:20 PM, Charlie Brej wrote:
> On 06/11/09 23:16, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 05:54:33PM +0000, Charlie Brej wrote:
>>> On 03/11/09 17:16, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>>>> Someone kindly produced a FUDCon Toronto 2009 shirt design.
>>>> Unfortunately though, the t-shirt printers in Toronto are having a
>>>> problem with some of the smaller text.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to constrain the minimum text size in the tag clouds
>>>> used in the logo design?  I know someone had written a clever script
>>>> to output these shirts, but I'm darned if I can find it.  If someone
>>>> directs me to the right place with a simple instructional nudge or
>>>> two, I can probably regenerate it myself, possibly even figure out how
>>>> to add a constraint if that's helpful.  I know enough Python to be
>>>> dangerous, or at least stupid.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The sources are available here:
>>> http://fedorapeople.org/groups/designteam/Fedora%20Collateral/T-Shirts/FUDcon%20Shirts/FUDcon%20Boston%202009/Word%20logo%20generator/
>>>
>>> To change the minimum font size, change the "#define MINFONT 4" in
>>> wordlogo.c to 5 or higher.  To change the words edit the script
>>> called "script".
>>>
>>> I can set this up if someone supplies me the list of words.
>>
>> Charlie, I could use help with this, if you have time.  I'll get
>> someone on the fudcon-planning list to find a list of words, and
>> indicate to you the minimum font size that will work for the printer,
>> and get them to you.
>>
>> I think we need two things, then:
>>
>> * Resolution of design-team ticket #77
>>     (https://fedorahosted.org/design-team/ticket/77) regarding the
>>     FUDCon logo alignment -- making sure that the T-shirt generator
>>     produces correctly aligned "leaves" in the logo as well
>>
>> * Generation of the actual art for the printer.
>>
>> Are these things you'd be willing to help with?
>>
>
> Sure, no probs, supply me the list of words and we will start there.

Bert Desmet (copied) did the original FUDCon Toronto shirt designs (by 
hand, because we didn't know about the scripts back then), and iirc 
grabbed a lot of the words from the wikipedia article on Toronto.

--Mel


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