Chicuelo Theme

movisman

Hi again!

I have done a little more work with tightening up the position and scale of the logos on the main system select screen. Again small changes but improvement none the less.

I have also resized all system logos you have made to date in terms of removing all bounding space around them. This means that all the images appear more consistent and central in ES.

In addition, I have also created a correct logo for Atari 2600, and changed the 5200 and 7800 so all three are the same size, so there is no scaling when you flip between the systems.

Also made a couple of minor adjustments to a couple of other logos.

Finally, I created a new Gamecube logo, a MAME one, an FBA one, and I also adjusted the Sinclair one to be more 'Spectrum' like.

I think it all looks good. How would you like to review these changes?

After checking, if you are happy to implement these into the official theme, I can try to complete a few more.

Thanks

movisman

@chicuelo

You can see all my above changes on this preview vid which flips through some of the systems:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=16VCwVGY72NDVOl6zTotAZKe_V0j3XCUc

Hope this helps get an idea of my changes.

Cheers

movisman

I also just created logos for:

Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Intellivision
Megadrive (non-US Logo)

Thanks

chicuelo

@movisman
Thats great!
the only one that I look strange is the FBA logo, I think we could make something like this but reducing the size of the F
alt text

The rest are ok!

chicuelo

@chicuelo
I forget to say, some of the logos have a horizontal or vertical space because the aspect ratio make them Look enormous when they were placed on the screen, so I manually compensed the size, but if you set a max width or height it will fit fine

Keigan

@stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan really digging your custom loading screens, go hand in hand so well with chicuelos theme :)

I don't suppose you could add the FDS, SegaCD and 32X to your collection? Unfortunately I don't have photoshop nor am I very good at photo/picture editing.

Thanks

I added them to the Google Drive link. Let me know if they work for you!

movisman

@chicuelo

I completely agree about the FBA logo - funnily enough I already started looking at this late last night because I thought it looked a bit odd and I wasn't happy with it either. It is the official logo but I think it needs to be more descriptive. So actually I have the above image already open on the machine - I just didn't get chance to look at it further. Unfortunately it seems to be a PNG though rather than SVG, but can still reduce the size of the F and apply a white overlay to replace the colour.

Regarding the logo sizes, I reduced the max height in theme.xml for the carousel image, and this seems to stop them appearing huge (the video i sent is with my revised theme.xml). So hopefully this is ok?

stephensmattlee

@keigan thats awesome, many thanks. I had a go at doing some colour versions and did Sega cd, 32x, fds and n64 as well. would it be okay to send them to you to see if you approve or would like to rework any of them? thanks again

Keigan

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

movisman

@chicuelo

This is what I had already started putting together, I just finished it off now. What do you think? Smaller logo and bigger text. This is an exported PNG filled over with grey for demo purposes so you can actually see it. Will give it a try later inside ES after applying a white fill on the SVG and then can see how it looks.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ng5GyhVXrGSBPDVxyylvgsjMtzs-3nvr

Cheers!

stephensmattlee

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

be good to get your thoughts.
many thanks

Keigan

@stephensmattlee said in Chicuelo Theme:

@keigan said in Chicuelo Theme:

@stephensmattlee

Sure thing, or if you know the background colour you want for each one let me know I can toss them together

Thats cool. heres what I came up with for a few extra ones https://mega.nz/#F!uV0HgbTR!phoju0Drj7sUGYbHsWf9ZQ

for better or worse I ended up taking the colours from the official artwork/game cover to get colours that suited the systems

be good to get your thoughts.
many thanks

They look great!

Exactly what I would have done, taken a colour that associates with the logo, or box, and you nailed it.

stephensmattlee

@keigan thats awesome, Im glad you approve, feel free to combine them with your originals if you're happy to :)

movisman

@chicuelo

How about this for the FBA logo?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1umFxVJ_uJy-WEknmT10-VOfxzB3m-L9c

Much more happy with this.

chicuelo

@movisman

Great! I was thinking about something like this for fba: (I have the svg file)

Whit the height limit I see some logos that are a bit bolder due the square aspect ratio, like genesis 32x but its not big deal

movisman

@chicuelo

Nice! That looks great too, better than mine (which is just a rework of that other PNG we both had). Maybe you could put 'alpha' on a separate line to make the logo more square so it fits better within the theme?

chicuelo

@movisman
I thought about it, but the word alpha will become HUGE and I think the logo will become bold as fuck :P

movisman

@chicuelo

Hmmm, i'm not too sure what you mean? So just placing the word Alpha underneath, on the same SVG, same size as it is now? Not sure on position though, either the word "alpha" in the centre or right justified underneath. Unless i'm confused it should look ok? Are you suggesting the logo would become too large because it's square?

This is where a maximum height in theme.xml comes in, which is what i've adjusted on my local copy (which is also on that video preview I sent). It reduces the size of square logos like Master System which look a bit too big at the moment, but keeps the width of the wider ones.

However, all that being said, all on one line is still likely to display fine (and looks better in general), as a lot of other systems are a similar width and they look ok. Have you got the SVG handy and I can install it?

Cheers!

chicuelo

@movisman said in Chicuelo Theme:

ither the word "alpha" in the centre or right justified underneath. Unless i'm confused it should look ok? Are you suggesting the logo would become too large because it's square?
This is where a maximum height in theme.xml comes in, which is what i've adjusted on my local copy (which is also on that video preview I sent). It reduces the size of square logos like Master System which look a bit too big at the moment, but keeps the width of the wider ones.
However, all that being said, all on one line is still likely to

What I want to mean is that the Alpha word would be super big under the final burn text, so the logo will be a little bit heavy as a logo. If you prefer I can send you the SVG file and you make the proportions you want

movisman

@chicuelo

Ah ok, so what I meant is the same as the image you posted but with the 'alpha' the same size as 'final burn'. With my modified theme.xml it should not appear too large but would need to try it.

I am happy with whatever logo you choose for FBA - it's your theme of course and you are much better at design than I am!! :) the original one on a single line will look fine i'm sure. I am just happy to contribute where I can to help complete some of the other systems and tidy up the XML where possible.

How would you like me to provide all the logos I created? Do you want me to email them to you or post up a download? Or raise a PR on github? I also have a slightly modified theme.xml which makes my 'no-margin' logos appear nicely.

Thanks!