The new [CCoF] logo

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You might have noticed our new logo and since we're pretty happy with it I just thought it would be fun to show it off a little and tell you how it came to be. I am not sure to what extend this would interest others, but I'll post it anyway, to show how our approach of things is.

As you might have noticed as well, both my partner in crime 'nobodie' and myself are pretty much into RP. We take it pretty seriously and like to look for a meaning behind everything. Same with our clan, we've been thinking hard about a background story and things like that. We would like to grow a little bit in the near future and have sat down to discuss how we can make the clan look more organized to the outside. The first thing of course is a proper logo, so we went on Skype and drew up some ideas.

We were looking for something with a symbol in it, rather than simple letters with a circle around them. We also agreed that the colors should be mainly black, white and dark red.
Seeing our background story, where we claim to be the first settlers of Sirius space and were abandoned by the other colonies, we finally arrived at the 'Alpha & Omega' concept. For those who don't know what that means: Alpha means 'the first', and Omega means 'the last'. Although it has yet to be determined whether we will be 'the last'

, we both felt this suited our clan's history well.

nobodie set his drawing talents to work and started drawing some ideas on paper using the alpha and Omega symbols as leading idea. Here's a couple of drafts he made:

The first idea:

Then he suddenly came up with something different, that in my eyes was a brilliant way to incorporate the Alpha and Omega symbols with the name of our clan.
Here's the raw sketch:

And here's the worked out design:

We both agreed that this would be the way to go and I started duplicating the drawing and turning it into something graphical. Both of us are pretty much perfectionists, so it took quite a lot of try-outs to get it right, but after about 15 hours of work

we finally ended up with this.

The official logo: (click on the thumbnail to notice the background is transparent and there's smoke behind the logo)

The version more suitable for avatars etc.:

I'll describe the logo.
The Alpha symbol can be seen in the back. It's the two diagonal lines that make up the top of the image.
The Omega symbol can be seen on the bottom, turned up side down.
Finally, the letters 'CCoF' can be seen in the middle of the logo, in an abstract form.

We at least are very happy with the result. We hope you like it too. :excl: