🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Sep 3, 2017 12:35 PM UTC:
Here's a new draft:
Since the King is not the most recognizable piece in the Motif font, I replaced the King with a Rook. I tried turning it rightsideup, and it looked better. I colored the Unicorn in Red (NCS), which is how red is defined in the Natural Color System. Since a slab-serif font by the Unicorn made it look like a college sports mascot, I changed the fonts for "The" and "Pages" to match each other, and I used Futura Black Condensed.
By multiple measures, Shogi is the most popular Chess variant on this site. It is the most favorited, it is tied with Alice Chess for the highest average rating, and it is the most played game on Game Courier. So I wouldn't avoid using a Shogi piece in the logo just because it is less popular on other Chess sites. But it does make sense to not use one with Japanese writing on it, because that would be too unfamiliar to people who don't know what Shogi is. By using a Shogi piece with a Rook image, someone who doesn't know anything about Shogi may gather that it is a Rook-like piece for a game that is similar to or related to Chess.
Here's a new draft:
Since the King is not the most recognizable piece in the Motif font, I replaced the King with a Rook. I tried turning it rightsideup, and it looked better. I colored the Unicorn in Red (NCS), which is how red is defined in the Natural Color System. Since a slab-serif font by the Unicorn made it look like a college sports mascot, I changed the fonts for "The" and "Pages" to match each other, and I used Futura Black Condensed.
By multiple measures, Shogi is the most popular Chess variant on this site. It is the most favorited, it is tied with Alice Chess for the highest average rating, and it is the most played game on Game Courier. So I wouldn't avoid using a Shogi piece in the logo just because it is less popular on other Chess sites. But it does make sense to not use one with Japanese writing on it, because that would be too unfamiliar to people who don't know what Shogi is. By using a Shogi piece with a Rook image, someone who doesn't know anything about Shogi may gather that it is a Rook-like piece for a game that is similar to or related to Chess.