HackFFM Logo 2.0

A new approach on the Hackerspace Frankfurt logo design.

HackFFM Logo 2.0?

• Pixel-by-pixel edit - traditional 8-bit Pixel-Art
• reduced color palette - 3 colors
• Large pixels, 5x5 or 6x6 magnification
  • no smoothing, no anti-aliasing
  • no dithering
• Outlined with dark background
• Background shadow
  • second layer, using #282828 background only
  • GIMP Gaussian blur - radius 4 × pixel-size (20 for 5x5 pixels)

GIMP Source files

• / GIMP Format with multiple layers for different drop shadows

favicon.ico

• via http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

Logo with Hackerspace text

GIMP shadow tutorial

#f8f8f8 - Foreground
#f0ad5e - Highlight beam
#282828 - Dark background

• drop shadow / Gaussian blur #282828

Alternative palette for print media

#ffffff - Foreground
#ff9900 - Highlight beam
#000000 - Dark background

• brighter colors for clear print output
• no drop shadow

HackFFM Logo 2.0 button variations

• feeding the MfK button machine with Datei:HackFFM Buttons MfK Logo 2.0 002.pdf
• Special Edition Buttons 2012 - colorful: Datei:HackFFM Buttons MfK Logo 2.0 005 Colorful.pdf

• Logo
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  HackFFM Logo 2.0

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  HackFFM Logo 2.0 Special Edition

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  HackFFM Logo 2.0 Special Edition extrem

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  Box with Buttons

HackFFM Logo 2.0? as 3D printed badge

OpenSCAD with 3D-Badge of the Logo 2.0 draft

• Simple converter using Processing to convert Pixel-Art to height map for OpenSCAD
  • grid size 3 × 3 mm per pixel
  • background - 1.2 mm height
  • foreground - 4.0 mm height
  • beam - "holes"
  • cubes are slightly "oversized" by 1/10th mm for connected pixel mesh
• Import to OpenSCAD - see our OpenSCAD small projects page
  • mesh rendering
  • STL output
• Printed by yag-freak's Prusa Mendel

Width: 19 / Height: 26

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Datei:Hackffm logo.lbr.zip

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