I need a Textile logo

Destry · 2015-10-17 09:34:54

I mentioned I’m drafting an essay, which will likely be published in Medium. A longform piece that will cover ground on writing, text editors, industry trends, Markdown, and Textile. (And a probable mention of Textpattern.)

Medium articles have more impact at first glance when they have a complementary ~~theme~~ hero image to go with them. At first I thought of something like the Rock’em Sock’em Robots, which would be effective at suggesting the match up part of the article, but I don’t want to actually convey a fight, per se, because that’s not how this article is written at all.

What would work, however, is taking the head-to-head concept and replacing it with the respective markup language logos, but this is where we come up short.

There is no official Textile logo, and I’m not suggesting this would become one. But there’s no official Markdown logo either, as far as I’m aware, yet there are various concepts of one available, such as these…

And this one, by Dustin Curtis, which may or may not have Gruber’s blessing:¹

I need something for Textile.

My immediate thought would be to go with the “tile” idea (i.e., ceramic tiles) and build a logo around a capital “T” (brown/yellow, black/yellow, gray/yellow?). But whatever it is, it should be simple and symbolic. Then I could create a large hero image of the two logos side by side.

Thoughts welcome.

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¹ Talked about more later.

Last edited by Destry (2015-10-26 14:37:22)

colak · 2015-10-17 09:50:25

txl would be a nice extension for it and a logo starter too but unfortunately it is taken.

Txp uses PT Sans and PT Serif so a T in one of those typefaces would probably be a good idea. I’m wondering if belipe could create one so as to have both the txp and the textile logos fall under the same aesthetic.

sacripant · 2015-10-17 09:52:44

Official documentation of PHP Textile use this logo :

logo PHP textile

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hcgtv · 2015-10-17 10:06:15

Destry wrote #295905:

A longform piece that will cover ground on writing, text editors, industry trends, Markdown, and Textile. (And a probable mention of Textpattern.)

Is it a comparison of M vs T on their technical merits, or the how and why each achieved different levels of acceptance?

I’m curious, since I’ve only used M on GitHuib, but I use T all the time.

What are the advantages to M over T?

Destry · 2015-10-17 10:51:13

colak wrote #295907:

txl would be a nice extension for it and a logo starter too but unfortunately it is taken.

A shorter extension would be nice (Markdown has .md, lucky), but probably a hard thing to achieve at this point.

+1 for .txl
-1 for using that in a logo (I’m not a fan of the “sTy” logo on the txstyle.org site either)

sacripant wrote #295908:

That could work, but I’m skeptical that’s an official logo of php-Texile. I don’t see it in GitHub source. I could be wrong.

hcgtv wrote #295909:

Is it…? What are..?

The essay is definitely not just a comparison of the two. And where I do compare them (one section of the entire thesis) I don’t do so from the underlying technical aspects that the Stack Overflow and GitHub crowds would drool and stool about. This article is from a writer’s perspective, with a big focus on text editors, and the audience is primarily app makers.

Beyond that you’ll have to read the article. ;)

colak · 2015-10-17 11:01:29

sacripant wrote #295908:

Official documentation of PHP Textile use this logo :

I think that the logo is the site logo and not the one for textile

michaelkpate · 2015-10-17 12:35:06

Destry wrote #295905:

Medium articles have more impact at first glance when they have a complementary theme image (or whatever they’re called) to go with them.

I believe the popular term is Hero Image.

Destry · 2015-10-17 13:59:57

michaelkpate wrote #295913:

I believe the popular term is Hero Image.

Oh, right. Thanks. Perfectly logical. O_o

ax · 2015-10-17 19:55:04

colak wrote #295911:

I think that the logo is the site logo and not the one for textile

No, it is the official Textile logo

Destry · 2015-10-17 23:03:07

ax wrote #295950:

it is the official Textile logo

Crazy logo, but I guess I’ll have to use it.

Destry · 2015-10-22 18:20:09

As I was unable to find a much larger size of the php Textile logo above (needed if I was going to use it), and not really liking it much either, I played around with a few ideas of my own and came up with one I’m not too embarrassed to share publicly. In fact, I rather like this one because it symbolizes how you use many textile elements — its signatures — which is a distinguishing aspect of Textile from Markdown. I went with PT Serif and a lowercase “t” because, again, how you actually use it.

I think it’s a step in the right direction at least.

ax · 2015-10-22 19:31:02

Nice. It symbolizes the Textile syntax.

Destry wrote #296116:

a much larger size of the php Textile logo

Perhaps a somewhat larger version of the logo would do? Could be vectorized easily.

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