Found the thread and I see you approved some of Eben’s. This is just like talking to yourself.

http://typophile.com/node/31130

Sharon

I know the feeling!

Hey, I got mine on display on my blog my blog. We should start a collection for everyone to post their own badges so that we can link to each other.

Here’s mine:

Hey Eben, have you seen the new pixel image editor called Pixen? It’s a cool editor for things like this. It’s still not very advanced yet, but you said you used to do pixel-based work, yes?

Hmmm, thought I posted here.

I like the idea, Dan. Just have to figure out how to make something that small. I use Goudy Stout’s V as a favicon on my site. Maybe I can use that. Might be hard to fit Van Lieu Photography dot com on that size. :-)

Sharon

Pixen seems pretty good. Although I would probably go to OS9 or 8 & use an old school editor just because I know it really well if I was doing this stuff again. Pixen might have an edge on the old school stuff in that it supports transparency. Nice link Dan!

Suggestion: you might want to tighten up that space between the Y & L

Dan, you are coming to Typecon right?

Are you Eben?

ChrisL

Yes with Lenses on.

Deleted...icky badge attempt.

See you there, with trifocals on :-)

ChrisL

I’ll be there. Should be fun. It’s my city, so I’d be dumb not to be there.

And I’ll tighten the kernin g.

pearlstreet:

Anti-Pixel badges are easy to make. It’s 80x15 pixels, and people typically use the silkscreen typeface that it freely available online. As noted by Eben above, if you’re not careful, the font’s kerning will be ugly, but it is free after all.

Eben:
I really like Pixen. I just wish that you could use type. There’s no support for glyphs, or even rudimentary type. A shame. It’s open source, so maybe we nudge someone like Raph to help them out with that :)

Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges! :-)

ChrisL

Thanks Dan! I have silkscreen so I’ll try again.

Sharon

I may not need a stinkin’ badge, but I definitely made one. :-)

Sharon

Sharon, do you mind if I mess with it?

I would love for you to mess with it.

Eben to the rescue! First he fixes my botched attempt at a Typophile badge, now the world is his oyster!

The small type size used in these things is fun. Silkscreen is the standard for this usage, but can anyone think of a better type to use? Perhaps the Hoefler and Frere-Jones’ Geometer screen fonts that have no other uses?

I don’t know if it’s better but have a look...

The one is for dark backgrounds & the other is for light ones.

Rescue? Maybe not so much. I was just dorking around to make the counters larger & smoothing things. Then I thought I would go grey.... for a softer feeling.

Anyway. Use it if it appeals to you or mess with it yourself! Cheers!

Almost a touch too grey, I think. Almost looks entirely anti-aliased. Maybe having the 1st letters a touch darker would punch it up?

Much more elegant. Thank you, Eben.

It’s far from perfect.

Your turn Dan!

I would loose those lines. I think they are probably getting in the way. And the shadows are too dark.

Would you lose the big V, too?

Im not sure I would loose it - but I might make it smaller for a better fit. And maybe make one without too. And then see which one I liked best...

I’ll have to get back to this tomorrow :(

This sounds fun. Will happily trade plugs where I can!
 

Here, I couldn’t decide on a color...

Those look good! The Choz one has the exact color pallete as a badge I created once upon a time for Mozilla’s Thunderbird. Cool.

I recommend more space for the I ( eye) in TYposium on both sides.

like this

Dan, thanks! The colors for that are copy/pasted from my home page’s source code The pallet of blues and one off white was all built around wanting to use cyan prominently. I kind of think of it as a designer’s color, both from CMYK printing and back-in-tha-day playing with Commodores, where it was this funny (ugly?) compromise color I dithered into others. For the site, I decided to feature it in a “pure” fashion. That badge is an attempt to imitate it, though I had to darken the background and add that shadow so it would read.

Eben, to look at the differences, I zoomed the images to 200%. The kerning is actually looser from the O onwards, and it looks like the word stretches out as it reads. At 100% it is harder to see. Is that intentional, or a side effect? I will go back now and loosen up around the I but leave the rest at 1px space...

(correction: were all at 2px originally, appears that you also modified the ’t’?)

Revisited. Only adjustments are 3px on each side of the ’I’, otherwise 2px. PS is not a good tool for pixel font kerning, or I’m doing something the hard way.
 

Nice!

Nice, indeed. :-)

Sharon