Design and print stickers

[samcunliffe]

What needs to be done?

Adapt the logo into a hex? or shaped sticker.
Add a nice short URL
Print.

Blocked by

• Redirect from a nicer URL #468

[matt-graham]

As an alternative to a short URL we could also tag with gh:ucl-arc/python-tooling which probably would give most people enough info to construct URL and also tells people what they need to use cookiecutter command. I guess till not that short though!

[samcunliffe]

I'll give them one more prod, after that I would propose we abandon the idea of a short URL.

[samcunliffe]

Just to dump some conversation here:

• Chris gave the OK to use ARC credit card for ballpark £50 (around 100 units) from Dignate (UK-based company that are slightly cheaper than the other place I got a quote from).
• The inclination, IIRC was to go with hex-sticker compliant.

[samcunliffe]

(Let's call them version 0: a, b, and c ... can I get some opinions plz?)

[Saransh-cpp]

I like having the link/reference

[matt-graham]

Agree with Saransh that having the template link / reference is good. Just to note we probably would want to convert the text to a path in the SVG in Inkscape before ordering for printing as the font used may not be available and another font will be used in place. I don't seem to be able to open the embedded SVGs in #469 (comment) in Inkscape, but in Firefox on Windows the rightmost is showing the text in a serif font while my memory of viewing it on an Ubuntu machine was it was in a san-serif font?

[samcunliffe]

I don't seem to be able to open the embedded SVGs

Yeah. Something's gone wrong with them indeed. The font is not what I intended. I'll do another round of voting and be sure to embed/raster the fonts. Also: we need some bleed margins.

[samcunliffe]

v1: a, b, and c

(c is very dark blue)
(@matt-graham can you try downloading one? did the fonts preserve correctly?)

[matt-graham]

I can now open these in Inkscape (or at least I tried the final one, assuming the rest will also!). In terms of fonts - this is how I see the text

I think it's still text rather than a path (and not sure you can embed font in SVG?) but as I have Arial font (which appears to the the font-family specification in file) it is rendering correctly for me. If you to run Path > Object to path in Inkscape menu it would force it to become a path which would be ensure it renders the same irrespective of the fonts installed on the system (but loose the ability to edit the text).

[samcunliffe]

Thanks! Yeah I swapped to Ariel because I thought it looked better, in the end. Indeed it was still text. Have now converted to path.

[samcunliffe]

Ordered.

[samcunliffe]

Printed. Done.

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Final SVG proof (w/ bleed):

Diginate wanted a PDF:
v1b.pdf