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veen  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: TELL HUBSKI: Sticker Design Contest

Great idea! I'd love to help. But that brings some questions:

- will they be square? What size?

- what's the hubski font exactly? I just used Arial last time since it kinda looked like it.

- is there an official logo with relative dimensions? How large is the inner circle compared to the outer ones. Something like this might be useful.

To be honest I don't know much about printing except that I should work in CMYK colors and a bit about DPI. Maybe insom knows more?

And last but not least, any ideas on what you'd like on a sticker?





mk  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here is a good start.

I met with mike this weekend in Portland, and we discussed the mathematical properties of the Hubski logo. We had a bet about the areas of the center circle, and the outer circles. Mike thought that they center circle area was greater than that of the outer ones. I guessed the opposite. He still owes me lunch.

Anyway, the truth was surprisingly close. Therefore we sat down and devised a balanced version, and perfected the distances with math as well. Here it is:

The area of the satellite circles equals the middle circle area. The distance from the edge of the inner circle to the middle of an outer one is equal to the diameter of the inner circle.

The colors are: #8097A4 (128,151,164), #F37901 (243,121,1), #10BDBB (16,189,187), although I sometimes adjust them depending on the purpose.

The font is Trebuchet.

mike  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, outer edge of the big circle to the center is a radius of the big circle. That makes the distance from center to center of opposite small circles twice the diameter of the big circle.

It seems perfectly balanced to me.

insomniasexx  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey veen. We're not super fancy shmacy but if you ended up putting together standards for the logo that could be nice. I've attached what I've created in the last few months.

I think the font is Trebuchet.

The last logo I did I recreated in fireworks based on a low res one.

Here's another

I would do CMYK at 300 DPI. That should be sufficient. Not sure what sticker company we're working with but most online ones will take RGB these days as well. Single color.

My opinion is that if there was a way to do a minimalist, single color version of the cool bar design you created, that would be epic. I've thought about how to do it though and can't see it in my head though so maybe something new.

thenewgreen  ·  4035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually like the second one here as a sticker.

veen  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's great! I'm sure I can think of a way to make the bar idea more minimalistic. Do you (or maybe mk) happen to know the hex color codes for the blueish, turquoise and orange?

insomniasexx  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Here's what I use:

Blue : #598598

Orange : #FF5B00

Turquoise: #00B6B2

thenewgreen  ·  4036 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk or insomniasexx can you help with this please? Thanks.