Graal Online Stationary? New Logo!

[Tracker180]

does anyone think my logo thingy is good? I sure do

[Crono]

Originally Posted by zim5354

Honestly why would pay to play that?

They actually have some nicer screenshots than that.

[Inverness]

Originally Posted by pooper200000

Scandly clad women! It could be the calling of sex offenders! Graal would grow from the increase in sex offenders and scandly clad people!

The term is "scantily."

Get Firefox, it has a built-in spell-checker, you need it.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by Inverness

The term is "scantily."

Get Firefox, it has a built-in spell-checker, you need it.

I love Firefox's built in spell-check. I used it on that sentence! And that one! Oh, and that one. And that one...

[Tyhm]

Originally Posted by Tracker180

does anyone think my logo thingy is good? I sure do

It's pretty nice. Brings up an interesting point though:
You remember those old heraldic shields, where it's divided into four sections, and each one has like a Fleur-De-Lis, or a Rampant Dragon, or something like that?
It'd be awesome if someone made that the Graal logo.
Just a really nice shield (the way Zelda always has that really nicely rendered shield), and the four icons for Classic, Zone, Kingdoms, and G3D...you know what? If we had the icons nicely rendered in a file, it'd be trivial for whoever scripts it to have it call a random icon off the list. So like, everyone does a bas-relief "etching" of their icon, and it randomly appears on the shield. One person gets Kingdoms/Zone/G3D/Atlantis, one person gets Delteria/Valkorlia/Classic/Kingdoms....probably weight the table so the Official Servers are twice as likely to end up on the shield, probably add a Standardized Shield for the 4 servers Unixmad and Stefan like best, but on the website, everyone gets a fair crack at it.

Rough concept:

[Tracker180]

umm I have a question, if the winner happens to use part of another logo or idea, will the person that comes up with the part or idea get a small prize?

[TalonShriner]

Here is my crack at it. Of course, it can be edited and refined, so give me some input.

[HoudiniMan]

Too complicated, too big.

Think of a logo we could use on the main page, like as the title or something.

[TalonShriner]

Well of course, making it smaller is no problem at all, but when you say its too complicated, are you talking about the detail on the globe part?

[Crono]

Zone isn't a significant part of Graal though. GK I can understand because it's currently the flagship server but not Zone. Also you really only need classic to represent the classic list, seeing as how it's the daddy of them all and most of them use the same graphics anyway.

[TalonShriner]

Oh actually, I didnt make it with Zone in mind. I wanted it to represent "Universal" instead of Zone. I think I can come up with an alternative.

[Darklux]

I kinda don't like this fractal/plasma design of the G, no idea why.

Cant anyone make stone letters, who are very old, overgrown with plants and so on? that would rock.

[zokemon]

Again guys, Demisis hit it right on the mark with his post:

Originally Posted by Demisis_P2P

Sleep Koji > Fung Si Yan.

Anyway, a lot of you guys aren't really posting logos. A logo isn't a banner or an emblem.

These are some examples of logos. Notice how they don't really say anything but they're instantly recognizable?



It needs to be something small and unique like those.

The logo should be very simple and taken from a very small color palette.

[Tyhm]

For "Simple Color Pallette" I'd say "The newbie shield", but while the design therein is unique, it's hard enough to replicate accurately that it would botch the Memorable quality.
The trouble is, we're trying to convey a complex concept in a symbol, when nobody ever does that. How does say "A cola product with a high concentration of sugar but which is the rival to Coca-Cola and the choice of a younger generation"? Only by association.
Thus, we'd need to not only forge a new logo, but hide it in every world so insidiously that it becomes The logo. The same way the Triforce shows up everywhere in Zelda, the same way every Pepsi can has the logo, and every McDonalds product bears the M even when they can't fit the rest of the cDonalds.

Ideally it should be something preexisting, like the Grail emblem. But it doesn't have to be, because all the preexisting logos are kinda...ambiguous. "A cup? What game's A cup?" "A ying yang?" "A red sword?" "A shield with some weird japanese writing on it?"

Geometric Logos: Circle with a sine wave. Triangle with an inverted triangle. Triangle with an O in it...
Mascots: Yellow man running. Bee buzzing in a wavy path. Dauchsand mother with 4 puppies. None of these have anything to do with the game, they're just fun. My logo has nothing to do with my business;
Typographic solution: Colorful letters on a white background (Google, Ebay). Two tone letters and background (UPS, Netflix). I'd suggest Tempus Sans ITC, but as has been pointed out, Graal's identifiable "Blue Shadow" style doesn't hold up well with white-on-white. Green text then? Or will it have a green background everywhere it goes?

[Darlene159]

I think the logo should be an intertwining of the newbie head, shield, and sword, since those are the first thing you have when you start. No idea how to do it, but it would be cool.