🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Sep 3, 2017 10:18 PM UTC:
What charm the old logo had for me was mainly in its use of different fonts for each letter of Chess Variant. Without that, it really holds no appeal for me. In particular, I don't like how placing each letter on a separate square limits what can be done with the typography, forcing non-proportional spacing, which makes it harder to treat words as single units. This is probably one of the reasons that not one single Chess website I looked at did this in its logo. To convey the idea of Chess-like games, it is sufficient to include a piece or two. Including a Chess board background is superfluous.
What charm the old logo had for me was mainly in its use of different fonts for each letter of Chess Variant. Without that, it really holds no appeal for me. In particular, I don't like how placing each letter on a separate square limits what can be done with the typography, forcing non-proportional spacing, which makes it harder to treat words as single units. This is probably one of the reasons that not one single Chess website I looked at did this in its logo. To convey the idea of Chess-like games, it is sufficient to include a piece or two. Including a Chess board background is superfluous.