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Feil made a desktop image

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GIMP, from a source image R, C, TM, owned, belonging to, chained up in the basement of, enslaved to, gene-coded to such that it will explode if anyone but a Judge touches the handle, and soul-bound to for all eternity until the ending of days, Games WorkShop and/or its minions.

Any comments or suggestions for how to make it better? I'm not quite satisfied yet, but I'm not particularly skilled at GIMPing.
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The logo and colours are just right, but I'm not sold on the font. It looks a bit skinny - do you have something that's a bit more solid?
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Spelled Armor wrong. :wink:
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havokeff wrote:Spelled Armor wrong. :wink:
I see you misspelled "armour" there, champ.
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Bounty wrote:
havokeff wrote:Spelled Armor wrong. :wink:
I see you misspelled "armour" there, champ.
You misspelled it too man. But we can do this all night :D

Desktop looks good Feil, but I agree that you need a more robust font... and spell checker.
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Armor is actually an accepted form of spelling in America... just check Webster's. That said, armour looks cooler.

(In fact, right now my spellchecker is telling me that armour is wrong...)
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That's because Websters is wrong, deviant and... American.

40k is wrong and English.

I quite like the font there myself, it's a classy wallpaper.
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Very clean and sharp, though I'll echo the comments about a beefier font. I mean, everything else in the Imperium is beefcake, why not its fonts?

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born in shadow wrote:Very clean and sharp, though I'll echo the comments about a beefier font. I mean, everything else in the Imperium is beefcake, why not its fonts?

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May I suggest the font Kochfraktur instead of the Roman Capitals you have? It's very Gothic Bible-esque. Example, Latinised because I'm cool like that, but missing texturing or centering:

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Yeah, Fraktur is a lot better.
I also suggest to make the font as wide as the wing tips of the bird.
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And kick out the bevel of the font. The bird is flat so there´s no need for the font to be beveled.
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The font didn't really do it for me either. Changed it to Castellar, whaddya think?

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Why the embossing?
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Two reasons. First, while the bird is sorta flat, there is some texture to it so I thought the font should have a bit as well. The second reason is that I just randomly tried stuff from what MS Paint has to offer and this one just hit a chord with me :D .
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