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

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Nov 9 08:15:12 UTC 2009


On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:38:13PM +0800, Mel Chua wrote:
> 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.

Bert,

Can you send us the list of words you used for the original shirt
design?  Thanks!

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