Size of Logo

If i want to make my own Logo, What size do i make it & what size text to
look good on a web page ?

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desgnr wrote:
> If i want to make my own Logo, What size do i make it & what size text
> to look good on a web page ?
>

Large enough to be recognizable, but small enough to be easily
downloaded and not compete with the page's content.

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In article ,
"desgnr" wrote:

> If i want to make my own Logo, What size do i make it & what size text to
> look good on a web page ?

Consider a variable size.

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desgnr schreef:
> If i want to make my own Logo, What size do i make it & what size text
> to look good on a web page ?
>


When I'm browsing the internet on my desktop computer
and I happen to visit your site
I won't need your logo to know where I am. I can tell that from the URL
or from reading your well-composed text, where your name will
prominently feature every third paragraph or so.



I need your logo when someone else is sitting behind the PC
and I'm walking by. Then I need your logo (and it should be pretty big)
so I can see from ten feet away that it's your site that's on the screen.

I suggest you use a frameset for lay-out
and stick your logo in the uppermost frame
where it can sit undisturbed for as long as the visitor will stay.

My suggestion for the logo: 760 px wide and 80 pixels high.
The text would look fine when it's at least 16 points.

Good luck.

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On 05 Jun 2009, "Rob W." wrote:

> I suggest you use a frameset for lay-out
> and stick your logo in the uppermost frame
> where it can sit undisturbed for as long as the visitor will stay.
>
> My suggestion for the logo: 760 px wide and 80 pixels high.


This has got to be the worst advice I've heard since the Wolfman told
Dracula to get a life.

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On 6/5/2009 2:43 PM, Rob W. wrote [in part]:
> desgnr schreef:
>> If i want to make my own Logo, What size do i make it & what size text
>> to look good on a web page ?
>>
>
> My suggestion for the logo: 760 px wide and 80 pixels high.
> The text would look fine when it's at least 16 points.

Those should be the maximum sizes. Smaller might be better. Also, the
file size (bytes) should be as small as possible while still keeping the
logo's appearance okay.

Logos are generally used for commercial Web sites where the business had
trademarked the logo and uses it on stationery, print and TV ads,
vehicles, etc.

Have you considered merely using HTML and CSS to create a logo rather
than putting it into an image?

Another alternative is a watermark in the background. Make it almost
the same color as the background. Neither the watermark nor the
background should use colors that make the foreground text difficult to
read. There should be sufficient contrast that a color-blind person can
read the page.

If you go to my home page (URL in my signature below), you will see my
script initials as a watermark. The watermark is in a GIF file less
than 9 KB. It's 595 pixels wide and 428 pixels high, allowing the
entire watermark to be seen on a 800x600 monitor. The image has a
transparent background so that the page's background color shows
through. The image floats so that it remains fixed within the browser
window as the page is scrolled in front of it.

Note that my background color is a pale green that is almost white
(#f0fff0). The image is slightly darker (#d2ffd2). Black text in front
of these should be easy to read. Red text (#ff0000), which I use only
rarely, should have sufficient contrast with both the background and the
watermark for it to still be readable by a red-green color-blind person.

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In article <-sidna-4NucPIrTXnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@posted.docknet>,
"David E. Ross" wrote:

> If you go to my home page (URL in my signature below)

Safari can¹t open the page ³http://www.rossde.com/² because it could not
connect to the server ³www.rossde.com².

On FF, the watermark is so subtle as to be almost invisible for the
purpose of any reading or understanding. It could be confused with a
blemish.

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David E. Ross wrote:
>
> Logos are generally used for commercial Web sites

Also non-commercial sites.

> where the business

Also governmental agencies, church groups, sports clubs, civic
organizations, support groups, etc.

> had trademarked the logo

Or not. I'd bet that a good 50% of logos are not trademarked (although I
have no figures to back that up). Some people use WordArt in MS Word to
make their logo. They don't bother to then trademark the thing.

> and uses it on stationery, print and TV ads, vehicles, etc.

Or (just for pedantic completeness) just on the Web site. ;-)


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dorayme wrote:

> Safari can¹t open the page ³http://www.rossde.com/² because it could
> not connect to the server ³www.rossde.com².

You might want to know that your message looks odd, with superscripts where
you probably meant to use apostrophes and quotation marks. The reason is
that your message was declared as ISO-8859-1 encoded,
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
but it is in reality in some other encoding (possibly after some erroneous
code conversion).

Sorry for the off-topic note, but the discussion as a whole is off-topic for
the group, and besides I did not want to try to send a private note by
e-mail, as dorayme's sender information (e-mail address) looks forged.

ObHTML: It's also common to mess things up in HTML by declaring (or letting
some software declare) your encoding as different from the real one, or by
failing to declare it at all.

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David E. Ross wrote:
> Logos are generally used for commercial Web sites where the business had

Umm ...

The American Red Cross
The American Cancer Society
The Ford Foundation
Common Cause
Public Broadcasting System
National Public Radio

etc., etc., etc.

;-)

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