Preferred Wonder Woman title logo

[Avi]

Best: 9,10, 5
Worst: 3, 7

[Jim Kelly]

It always bugged me that for some reason the o and n are practicing social distancing but all the other letters touch.

It's just a trick of perspective. All the fronts of the letters are evenly spaced, but they're supposed to be three-dimensional and your focal point is centre and above--so some letters are to right and others left. If you imagine changing your focal point--right, left, below--the perspective would change and some sides would seem to "touch" or not "touch," depending on the angle.

Really, I have to respect the letterer for respecting perspective and not cheating the image--he had to see in his mind how the letters would appear in three dimensions from a specific focal point.

You know, I thought about this a lot back in the day, staring at the logo so much and trying to figure out why the letters had to be that way. If they had "touched" it would actually be wrong from that perspective and it would have bugged some readers who understood those principles.

[Koriand'r]

It's just a trick of perspective. All the fronts of the letters are evenly spaced, but they're supposed to be three-dimensional and your focal point is centre and above--so some letters are to right and others left. If you imagine changing your focal point--right, left, below--the perspective would change and some sides would seem to "touch" or not "touch," depending on the angle.

Really, I have to respect the letterer for respecting perspective and not cheating the image--he had to see in his mind how the letters would appear in three dimensions from a specific focal point.

You know, I thought about this a lot back in the day, staring at the logo so much and trying to figure out why the letters had to be that way. If they had "touched" it would actually be wrong from that perspective and it would have bugged some readers who understood those principles.

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Nice try, but no. Say the entire logo were a decal or a sticker, that would be the weakest part and it would probably break when you pulled if off the backing if you weren't extremly careful. Forced perspective or not the red shadow of the o still should have touched the yellow of the n, if only for the sake of symetry and clean lines. Take this X-Men font for example, the red shadow of the hyphen touches the yellow of the X.

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[Guy_McNichts]

Voted for 10.
6 would be a close second. 9 looks pretty cool, too.

[Jim Kelly]

Nice try, but no.

I respect your aesthetic perspective. I wouldn't have given this so much thought if I didn't. And I can appreciate that if you were designing a decal you might cheat the image to make it functional. But I wasn't making a "nice try." I was using actual science and a long tradition of drafting to explain why the lettering made sense to the letterer. To give me a flat "no"--as if I'm stupid and I don't know what I'm talking about--that's not showing me the same respect that I have showed you. Good day.

[Koriand'r]

I respect your aesthetic perspective. I wouldn't have given this so much thought if I didn't. And I can appreciate that if you were designing a decal you might cheat the image to make it functional. But I wasn't making a "nice try." I was using actual science and a long tradition of drafting to explain why the lettering made sense to the letterer. To give me a flat "no"--as if I'm stupid and I don't know what I'm talking about--that's not showing me the same respect that I have showed you. Good day.

I wasn't trying to disrespect you, but you came off as extremely condescending and it sounded a whole lot like mansplaining. I'm an artist, I've designed a few logos in my time and anyway you slice it the letters should be uniformly aligned. After giving it more thought the red of the o should touch the next letter just way the red shadow of Woman does. Sorry that you're offended, you have a good day too.

[phonogram12]

1, 2, 7

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[Thirteen]

I voted 5 as the best but in the process of looking around, saw THIS for the first time. The 80th anniversary logo. Might be something to be made from this at some point.