Logo | The Front Burner

July 22, 2017

OK, so my last sun-addled brainstorm did get me started on a T-shirt logo. Here are my first inklings:

Just getting started

I’m using the hot pink outline to emulate the hydrogen alpha spectrum you see in eclipse prominences, and a nice fuzzy corona. The font is pretty crazy and goes well with the theme. The background subject is going to be a solar eclipse with the sol part of the word over the sun, and luna over the moon.

July 27, 2017

After a lot more work, I think the design is done.

The finished design

I added a starfield background, A hydrogen alpha image of the sun, and a nice, cratery moon. Eclipse aficionados will no doubt realize this image is not representative of an actual solar eclipse. The moon would be a black shadow, and the stars would be washed down into the blacks from the heavy filtering needed to show the sun in this way. And what the heck is that fake lens flare doing way over there on the left? I’m really starting to think this has been Photoshopped. I broke up the word parts with alternating colors. Hopefully it’s appealing.

By the way, It’s weirdly hard to find royalty free images of just stars online. Usually something else has been centered in the foreground. The field I used here came from the top of a NASA photo describing the Catalina Sky Survey (asteroid hunting efforts) on Mt. Lemmon near Tucson.

August 4, 2017

The first one!

The one shown here is a large Hanes tagless. This is the custom shirt where you can fill in the four lines of text with what you want. Note the top line is larger text, and there’s a gap between the 2nd and 3rd.

Order one for yourself! The next eclipse is just a few orbits away!

Here’s a closeup of the dark shirt after one wash.

The dark shirt styles have white ink in the image. While the image is more breathable than typical T-shirt paint, it is less breathable than the other style shirt without the white paint.