choosing new SS boat name - logo

[petem]

Pete I don't buy that. Unless you are making huge letters for dilbar or something you are never going to put LEDs in the serifs. They get lit by light spreading from the LEDs inside the arms/legs/bars in the main part of the letters. So serifs can be fine, and pointed, whatever you want, and much less than 14mm.

To be frank I don't even see serifs in Bart's pictures but you might be looking on a bigger screen.

I think the thinnest part of Bart's fancy A, the crossbar, is 14mm anyway.

Bart my vote is to have the name on the transom not the overhang.

Apologies, meant 'strokes', not 'serifs' (was in the middle of sorting out a boat name for a fellow forumite who particularly wants serifs).

Bart's graphics person should be able to measure the thickness of the strokes. If necessary a font can always be emboldened a bit (my graphics package does this by adding some 'dynamic offset') or an individual stoke can be widened. As we've discussed before, fonts aren't sacrosanct, tweaking them is quite acceptable.

 

[jfm]

As we've discussed before, fonts aren't sacrosanct, tweaking them is quite acceptable.

agreed. I altered the M on my name- had it made 30mm wider than the other letters, to counteract the fact that the 3 vertical legs of the M trick the eye into thinking it's narrower than the other letters, which are dominated by horizontal strokes

 

[NBs]

Hi, I think if the lights so, the rich 3D is cool.



Pleace, click the picture larger.
NBs

 

[rubberduck]

Make the 'A' backlit white and everything else blue

Gets my vote.

 

[Eren]

I would vote for the first one, but with bigger fonts (and may be by leaving more space between the letters, in order to cover more area). I am aware there there is a placement problem at the transom due to e/r access door and various other things there. But your boat is big and I found the boat name too small comparing with the size of transom.

 

[BartW]

thank you all for sharing your opinions and sugestions, much appreciated !

atm my mind is set on the first foto, with slightly bigger letter corps
BLUE with blue light and ANGEL with white light


unfortunately they made the new platform shower locker wider than the orriginal,
which reduces space even more.
In order to have more space for the name,
and have a smaller locker door; turning open to SB side, NOT in front of the transom door
I asked the workers to make that opening smaller

 

[jimmy_the_builder]

thank you all for sharing your opinions and sugestions, much appreciated !

atm my mind is set on the first foto, with slightly bigger letter corps
BLUE with blue light and ANGEL with white light

Good idea with the colour selection :encouragement:

 

[jfm]

Good idea with the colour selection :encouragement:

+1:encouragement:

 

[scubaman]

I like the simplicity of no. 1, but to my eye the font looks very contemporary and slightly at odds with the classic style of your beautiful boat. Therefore no. 2 with the stylized ’A’ gets my vote of the two.